All Is Well (2011 film)

All Is Well (in Portuguese Por aqui tudo bem, in French Tout Va Bien) is a 2011 film by Angolan filmmaker Pocas Pascoal. It was shown at the Malta Film Festival[1] and Germany's Africa Alive Festival's 2014 edition.[2] The film has a duration time of 94 minutes.[3]

For other films with the same name, see All Is Well.

Plot

The film deals with a pair of young, teen-aged sisters, the sixteen years old Aida and the seventeen years old Maria, escaping Angola to live in Lisbon, Portugal during 1980, in order to escape the Angolan civil war of that era.[3]

The pair make it to Lisbon, where life proves to be harsh for the two African women. They have a hard time adapting to their new country and its customs and culture, but then a tragic event changes their lives once again.

Cast

Awards

The film won many international awards, [4] including the:

  1. "Por aqui tudo bem / All is well (2011), Pocas Pascoal - Malta Festival Poznań 2019". malta-festival.pl.
  2. "Festival programm" (PDF). www.africa-alive-festival.de. 2014. Retrieved 2019-10-05.
  3. "Films from Africa: Film-Details". www.filme-aus-afrika.de.
  4. "POR AQUÍ TUDO BEM – Festival de Cine Africano".
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