Dona Amélia is an Angolan refugee from the war who started her life anew in Olinda, in the Northeast of Brazil. From her photograph mural, her Brazilian daughter goes in search of her roots, divided between the family memories and the manifestations of African origin that she encounters along the way.

FotogrÁFRICA

In 1975 Angola declared itself independent and a long Civil War broke out. Forty years later, Alice, the only Brazilian daughter of an Angolan family in Brazil, decides to go to Angola in search of the stories that motivated her parents to give her that name.

Nome de Batismo — Alice

The director dives into her father's past when she meets the nun who helped her family escape the Civil War that expelled many Angolans from their lands in the 1970s. They came to Olinda, and, as a tribute, the first daughter born in Brazil won the that woman's name.