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TOMMY GUNS
NAÇÃO VALENTE

• Director: Carlos Conceição
• PORTUGAL, FRANCE, ANGOLA / 2022 / DCP / Colour / 120’ / Portuguese; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Carlos Conceição
• Director of Photography: Vasco Viana
• Editing: António Gonçalves
• Cast: João Arrais, Anabela Moreira, Gustavo Sumpta, Miguel Amorim, Vicente Gil, André Cabral, Ivo Arroja
• Producer: Leonor Noivo, João Matos, Luisa Homem, Pedro Pinho, Susana Nobre, Tiago Hespanha
• Production Co.: Terratreme, Mirabilis, Virginie Films
• World Sales: Wide

2022 Locarno Junior Jury Award, Europa Cinemas Label

In 1974, in the thirteenth year of the liberation war, the Portuguese and their descendants fled Angola where nationalist groups gradually claimed their territory back. A tribal girl discovers love and death when her path crosses that of a Portuguese soldier. Then, a Portuguese squad barracked inside an infinite wall from which they will have to escape once the past comes out of the grave to claim its long-awaited justice. ‘Tommy Guns is a reflection on history, on political hatred and fear, and a portrait of the metaphysics of tyranny. It’s meant as a reflection on the cyclic nature of fascism and how to this day it remains a threat to evolution.’ Directed by Angola-born Portuguese filmmaker Carlos Conceição, Tommy Guns made its world premiere at Locarno Film Festival’s main competition.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.