Farewell Amor
Farewell Amor
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1h 41m
Directed by Ekwa Msangi • 2020 • United States
Starring Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Zainab Jah, Jayme Lawson
In her luminous feature debut, filmmaker Ekwa Msangi chronicles a broken family’s journey to wholeness with empathy and insight. Seventeen years after his family was separated by the civil war in Angola, a New York taxi driver (Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine) is reunited with his now devoutly religious wife (Zainab Jah) and teenage daughter (Jayme Lawson) when they are finally able to follow him to America. But after living thousands of miles apart for so long, the three find they must discover one another’s strengths, forgive one another’s weaknesses, and bridge cultural and generational divides in order to build a life together. Told in three perspective-shifting chapters that honor the multitude of struggles and emotions that make up the immigrant experience, FAREWELL AMOR is a bittersweet, compassionate evocation of how it feels when your heart and your home are in different places.
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FARWELL AMOR Commentary
This commentary, recorded in 2022, features director Ekwa Msangi and director of photography Bruce Francis Cole.
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Farewell Meu Amor
This 2016 short film by Ekwa Msangi can be thought of as an immediate prequel to FAREWELL AMOR: it depicts a man on the morning of a long-awaited reunion with his exiled family, and the heartbreak of parting from his lover.
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The Market King
In Ekwa Msangi’s 2014 comedic short film THE MARKET KING, a well-intentioned father must have his daughter’s hair braided at the market, a space where only women usually go.
