BANZO

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By Margarida CARDOSO

UMA PEDRA NO SAPATO - as SALES All rights, World / DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline

Historical - Completed 2024

- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- Historical, Female director, Drama
- Countries
- PORTUGAL, FRANCE, NETHERLANDS
- Languages
- PORTUGUESE, ENGLISH, CREOLE
- Duration
- 127 mn
- Director(s)
- Margarida CARDOSO
- Cast
- Carloto COTTA, Hoji FORTUNA, Rúben SIMÕES, Gonçalo WADDINGTON
- Producer(s)
- Filipa REIS (UMA PEDRA NO SAPATO), François D'ARTEMARE (LES FILMS DE L'APRÈS-MIDI), Yohann CORNU (DAMNED FILMS), Frank HOEVE (BALDR FILM)
- Synopsis
- 1907. Afonso starts life anew on a tropical island off the African coast as a doctor on a cocoa plantation. He will have to cure a group of servants “infected” by a disease known as Banzo, the nostalgia of the slaves. They are dying by the dozens, from starvation or suicide. By fear that this deep nostalgia is contagious, the group is sent to an isolated and rainy hill, surrounded by the forest. There, Afonso tries to cure the servants, but his inability to understand their soul proves to be stronger than all the solutions.