Nayola (2022)
~ IMDb rating – 7/10 ~ In this film, three generations of women from a country called Angola in South-Central Africa are portrayed. Angola was a Portuguese colony from the 16th century to 1975, and then went through a civil war from 1975 to 2002 after gaining independence. Even though the civil war ended, it did not stop after 2002. In one of his provinces, Cavinda, there are still revolutionaries working for secession. In 2006, he signed a peace agreement with the Cavinda Liberation Front. However, a group of Kavinda separatist guerrillas is still waging a revolution today. Therefore, this film, which features three generations of women in a country that has never been at peace, shows how the country's people have felt the effects of successive wars. But since the main characters are women, the women's side is more important. The stories of the old lady whose husband died in the war of independence... her daughter who lost her husband in the civil war... her granddaughter who lost both her mother and father are presented in parallel. But it's not so simple... It can be said that his daughter is looking for him because the man disappeared. There are many metaphors in his play, and he remains a symbol of the revolution that has not yet died. It must be said that the granddaughter is revolutionizing the country with rap songs. His father's way of revolution was not different from his mother's. In this story, there are those who say that the war is long over, but there are those who want to return home, but as the daughter's character said, "No one can return from war, mother," it did not end for those who did not end. Simply put, this story is about endings, which are really just words.
