Trailer
Special Mention, FIFA 2024
Toppling statues and symbols, building new memories, framing the altered landscape, writing letters to the future, and reversing power dynamics: Big Bang Henda is a documentary-poetry-manifesto about the work of Angolan artist Kiluanji Kia Henda.
In presence of the producer Bruno Moraes Cabral on March 16, 2024 at Concordia University — J.A. de Sève in Montréal
Toppling statues and symbols, building new memories, framing the altered landscape, writing letters to the future, and reversing power dynamics: Big Bang Henda is a documentary-poetry-manifesto about the work of Angolan artist Kiluanji Kia Henda.
In presence of the producer Bruno Moraes Cabral on March 16, 2024 at Concordia University — J.A. de Sève in Montréal
Other festival:
DocLisboa, Portugal (2023)
DocLisboa, Portugal (2023)
Director | Fernanda Polacow, Fernanda Polacow |
Director of Photography | Kamy Lara |
Production | Bruno Moraes Cabral |
Artistic Direction | Kiluanji Kia Henda |
Editing | Micael Espinha, Bruno Moraes Cabral |
Colorization | Carlos Isaac |
Sound mixing | João Gazua |
Music | Kiluanji Kia Henda |
In Partnership with
Session
• Université Concordia - J.A. de Sève, LB-125, Pavillon J. W. McConnell
Saturday, march 16, 2024, 08:00 p.m. — 09:30 p.m.
Production
Fernanda Polacow
Fernanda is a screenwriter, director and script consultant, undergoing a Master’s Degree in Visual Anthropology and living between São Paulo and Lisbon. Her second feature film, The Last Summer, is in post-production after being selected for the Script Station at the Berlinale. She is part of the Torino Script Lab 2023 as a Story Editor. She has developed, directed and written for TV, streaming and cinema. She is the screenwriter of the feature film Mosquito, winner of the Critics Prize at the São Paulo International Film Festival and opening film at the Rotterdam International Film Festival. She is one of the founders and vice president of MUTIM, the first women’s association in the movie sector in Portugal. She is a mother and an amateur percussionist.
Biographical notes provided by the film production team
Biographical notes provided by the film production team
Mosquito (2020)