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All is good ( Angola 2011 )

Color: Fiction, color, 94’

Direction: Pocas Pascoal

Screenplay: Marc Pernet, Pocas Pascoal

Director of Photography: Octávio Espírito Santo

Sound: Paulo Cerveira

Editing: Pascale Chavance

Cast: Cheila Lima, Ciomara Morais, Vera Cruz, Willion Brandão

Production: LX Filmes

Synopsis

In the late summer of 1980, Alda and her sister Maria, at the age of 16 and 17, arrive in Lisbon to escape the civil war in Angola. Left to themselves, they must learn to survive in a foreign city. Alda and Maria, from scratch will build a new life and become women. When problems nearly become unbearable dreadful news fall upon them. Paradoxically, it’s those terrifying news that gives them the strength to decide their own fates.

Réalisateur

Pocas Pascoal was born in Angola in 1963. She studied at the Conservatoire Libre du Cinéma Français. In 2002 she mixed with the group of artists of the Cité Internationale des Arts and took part in several exhibitions of contemporary art. In 2003, she directed the documentary Il y a toujours quelqu’un qui t’aime. Por aqui tudo bem is her first feature film.