Hanami is a drama film, directed by Denise Fernandes and released in 2024.[1] A coproduction of companies from Switzerland, Portugal and Cape Verde, the film centres on the coming-of-age of Nana (Dailma Mendes in childhood, Sanaya Andrade in adolescence), a young girl who was left behind in Cape Verde when her mother Nia (Alice da Luz) left for a better life in another country, centring on both her childhood in a community of women who take care of her needs and her reunion with her mother as a teenager.[2]

Hanami
Directed byDenise Fernandes
Screenplay byDenise Fernandes
Telmo Churro
Produced byEugenia Mumenthaler
David Epiney
Luís Urbano
Sandro Aguilar
StarringDailma Mendes
Sanaya Andrade
Alice da Luz
CinematographyAlana Mejía Gonzalez
Edited bySelin Dettwiler
Music byRahel Zimmermann
Production
companies
Alina Film
O Som e a Fúria
Ventura Film
Release date
  • 14 August 2024 (2024-08-14) (Locarno)
Running time
96 minutes
CountriesSwitzerland
Portugal
Cape Verde
LanguagesCape Verdean Creole
Japanese
French
English

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The film premiered in the Concorso Cineasti del Presente at the 77th Locarno Film Festival.[1] It was subsequently screened in the Vanguard competition at the 2024 Vancouver International Film Festival, where it received an honorable mention for the Vanguard Award.[3]

It is also slated to screen in the First Feature competition at the 2024 BFI London Film Festival.[4]

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