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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