FRANCE · 2024
Banzo
Margarida Cardoso
colonialism and exploitation
slavery and forced labor
mental health and trauma
cultural displacement
nostalgia and homesickness
medical ethics
human dignity
psychological suffering
Synopsis
1907. Afonso, a doctor, arrives at Principe Island to cure servants from a cocoa plantation “infected” with Banzo, nostalgia of the slaves, who are dying from starvation and suicide. The group is confined to the forest, where Afonso decides to heal them by trying to understand what is affecting their soul. Will he manage to save them?
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