Country: Angola
Year: 2022
Duration: 98'
When a Chinese merchant brings to a neighborhood of Luanda a peculiar holy plastic figure of Our Lady, a mourning mother will seek peace, a committed barber starts a new cult and a stray kid will look for revenge for his lost friend. This delicate urban tale will reveal a family and city facade full of resentment, greed and torment.
Biography
film director
Ery Claver
began his career as a cameraman, working on numerous television programs and documentaries. In 2013 he joined the collective Geração 80 and deepened his style as Director of Photography working on the short films Concrete Affection - Zopo Lady (2014), and Havemos de Voltar (2017), both directed by Kiluanji Kia Henda. As a director he has signed several short films, most notably Lúcia no Céu com Semáforos (2018), in partnership with Gretel Marín, and Enóquio que não tinha coração (2020), in partnership with his brother Evan. He has had his work screened at several international festivals, most notably the Clermont-Ferrand, Zurich, and FCAT - African Film Festival, in the cities of Tarifa and Tangier. In 2019, he went on to co-write and do cinematography of the award winning Angolan film Air Conditioner, directed by Fradique. Our Lady of the Chinese Shop is his first feature.
FILMOGRAFIA
Enóquio que não tinha coração (coregia Evan Claver, cm, 2020), Lúcia no Céu com Semáforos (coregia Gretel Marín, cm, 2021), Our Lady of the Chinese Shop (2022)
Declaration
film director
“I see stories in which the camera captures reality, but the camera, unlike the eyes, does not tear, the camera is a cold slave to reality, it is not allowed to dream. Our Lady of the Chinese Shop means a lot to me as a filmmaker, not just because it’s my first feature film but also it defines and condenses an impulse that I have traced in my last short films: an allegory about power.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY: Ery Claver. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Eduardo Kropotkine. FILM EDITING: Zeno Monyak. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Prudênciana Hach. MUSIC: Ismael Suama. SOUND: Oswald Juliana. CAST Cláudia Púcuta David Caracol Willi Ribeiro. PRODUCER: Jorge Cohen.
CONTACT:
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