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DESCRIPTION:The Hero Zézé Gamboa (Angola/Portugal/France, 2004)   Introduced by 
 Cornelius Moore   Cornelius Moore is director of the Library of African 
 Cinema, California Newsreel's African film distribution project.   (O 
 herói). The southern African nation of Angola is only recently emerging 
 from a combined forty years of anticolonial and civil war. The Hero 
 intertwines postwar stories of characters from different strata of Angolan 
 society who—like their country—are trying to reconstruct their lives. 
 First-time director Zézé Gamboa compassionately presents the stories of 
 grief, loss, resilience, and hope that are so much a part of the global 
 South. The hero of the title is Vitório (Oumar Makéna Diop), an 
 unemployed and homeless war veteran, awaiting a prosthetic leg to replace 
 the one he lost after stepping on a land mine. In another part of town is 
 the young, streetwise Manu (Milton Coelho), whose father is MIA from the 
 war. By chance, Vitório meets two women who transform his life, one of 
 them Manu's teacher. Gamboa is a unique and acclaimed new voice—The Hero 
 won the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at the 2005 Sundance Film 
 Festival.   —Cornelius Moore, S.F. International Film Festival   Written 
 by Carla Baptista. Photographed by Mario Masini. With Oumar Makéna Diop, 
 Milton Coelho, Patrícia Bull, Neusa Borges. (97 mins, In Portuguese with 
 English subtitles, Color, 35mm, From California Newsreel)      \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/01/31/86303.php
SUMMARY:African Film Festival: The Hero
LOCATION:2575 Bancroft Way, @ Bowditch  UC Berkeley
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/01/31/86303.php
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