XIME

Credits

Name: XIME

Country: Guinea-Bissau

Year of publication: 1994

Format: DCP

Color: color

Language : OmeU

Duration: 95 Minuten

Series: 21. Afrika Film Festival Köln

Direction: Na N'Hada, Sana

Abstract

In 1963, the rice harvest was looking good and the village of XIME was optimistic. But Lala, widower and father of Raùl and Bedan, remained worried. Raùl, his eldest son, was studying with the priests in Bissau, but the colonial authorities were looking for him. As for Bedan, who had stayed in the village, he had reached the age of adolescence when young people think they can do anything. Raùl returns to the village with revolutionary ideas. Conceived as the first part of a trilogy about war, director Sana Na N'Hada's first feature film follows the destiny of a Bissau-Guinean family whose environment is turned upside down by the arrival of war.