Manoa

1980. Fiction, 35 mm, colour, 103 Min.
Screenplay: Solveig Hoogesteijn
Direction and Executive Production: Solveig Hoogesteijn
Director of Photography: Hector Rios
Music: Victor Cuica
Editing: Giuliano Ferioli and Bruno Bianchini
Production: Olegario Barrera
THE STORY:
How can we know where we are going, if we do not know where we come from?
Juan and Miguel are very different. Everything draws them apart: their races, their cultures, their social class. But there is something that unites them deeply: music. At an age in which the search for the own identity is common to all men, they leave the modern capital to the countryside, on a journey through time. Hesitant between violence, clouded by the complexity of their common ancestry: Hispanic-Afro-Indian, during their initiatory journey they both find their personal history, their Manoa, their Dorado.
AWARDS:
- Represents Venezuela in the “Quinzaine des Réalisateurs”
- Cannes International Film Festival, 1980
- Honorary Makhila, Ibero-American Film Festival, Biarritz, 1980
- Silver Catalina for Best Feature Film
- Festival of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, 1981
- Best Film, Committee of Youth Organizations,
- Tashkent International Festival, USSRR, 1982
- Best Fiction Feature Film, Film Critics Association of Venezuela, 1981
- Best Screenplay, Municipal Award of the Municipal Council Dto. Federal, 1981
- Golden Meridian Best Film, 1981
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