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On a remote volcanic island that everybody wants to leave, little Nana learns how to stay.
Synopsis
On a remote volcanic island – a place everyone wants to leave – Nana has learned to stay.
Her mother Nia, who suffers from a mysterious illness, left soon after her birth. When Nana comes down with a high fever, she is sent to the foot of a volcano for treatment. There, she encounters a world suspended between dreams and reality. Years later, when Nana is a teenager, Nia returns.
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Denise Fernandes is a writer and director, born in Lisbon in 1990 from Capeverdean parents and raised in southern Switzerland. She is known for her films “Una Notte” (2011), “Pan sin Mermelada” (2012), “Idyllium” (2013) and “The Nothingness Wandering Out out the Self” (2015). She is currently working on her debut feature film “Hanami”, that takes places in Cape Verde with Elda Guidinetti of Ventura Film as producer.
