A young driver Quim has great difficulty accepting that his first child is disabled. His mother advises him to go to Kimbanda, to visit a witch doctor, but Quim refuses. His mind is completely confused and this confusion leads him to reunite with Djamila, his ex-mistress. —TV5Monde
Originally from Angola’s capitol city, Luanda, Bartolomeu has lived in a handful of different countries and now resides in the United States. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Filmmaking and he is a Fulbright alumni. His short films have been selected and screened at a variety of international film festivals, and his documentary “The Sun Still Shines” (1995), made for French TV Channel La Sept-Arte, won Best Documentary and the Fipresci Award at the Milan International Film Festival. —wordswithwriters