Nha Fala. Photo by Flora Gomes
Nha Fala is a film about Vita. A girl whose family has been cursed to never sing.
Upon going to study to France, she falls in love with a french music producer And eventually makes a disk.
She has an amazing voice.
Music is the ability to dream…
Of independcence and social justice.
This statement speaks what Flora Gomes is all about.
This is what Flora Gomes has said:
“Whenever Africa is spoken about or depicted, it is always in terms of the aid we receive, war, people dying of starvation, sick people”
“. . . These things do of course exist in Africa: Africans kill other Africans, and nobody knows why we go to war, yet it still goes on.”
“I wanted people to see our Africa, the Africa of my dreams, the Africa that I love and that I would like my children to know one day. It is a happy Africa, where people dance, where people can speak freely. It is my take on the future for a new generation.—Flora Gomes”
“But there is another side to Africa, and that is what I wanted to show. It is a side you never see on your television screens in the West. That is why I made this film.”
