Tag: Farewell Amor
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Nana Mensah Didn’t Just Star in ‘Queen of Glory.’ She Also Wrote, Directed and Raised the Money to Make It
“Queen of Glory,” a new indie drama about a doctoral student whose plans are upended when her mother dies unexpectedly and leaves her the family’s Christian bookstore, is a remarkable feature film directing debut for Nana Mensah.Not only does its premiere at this year’s Tribeca Festival herald the arrival of a compelling new cinematic voice,…
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‘Farewell Amor’ Review: An Angolan Family Reunites in America in Empathetic Slice of Immigrant Life
“Farewell Amor” powerfully argues that you can never really go home again, especially when that home was never yours to begin with. In Ekwa Msangi’s feature debut, an immigrant family tries to stitch itself together in New York after decades of separation, with the patriarch Walter (Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine) an Angolan refugee now comfortably…