Africa-Press – Cape verde. The Cape Verdean and protagonist of the film with her name, “Vitalina Varela”, winner of several awards, wants to take her children, who are currently sick, from Cape Verde to Portugal. She asks for support to fulfill this desire.
À Inforpress, Vitalina Varela disse que, desde a estreia do filme, em 2019, a sua vida “mudou muito e para melhor”, tendo viajado e conhecido vários países do mundo, trazendo-lhe “grande alegria e satisfação”.
“The prizes I won have a lot of value, a lot of love and joy for all Cape Verdeans. Everything changed for me, I was very sick, but God started to give me improvement, love and joy, because I was always crying and in a lot of pain”, he said.
However, she says she has been in Portugal for eight years, alone, since she left her six children (four she raised and two biological), the latter two, a man and a woman, all adults, have been sick.
“The girl has already had surgery three times. I’m here alone. I need my children who are in Cape Verde all sick”, she asked, explaining that she has tried but always unsuccessfully.
The film and its story
Vitalina Varela, now 58 years old, born in Figueira das Naus, on the island of Santiago, is an amateur actress and the film with her name tells the story of her life, also portraying many of the problems that Cape Verdean emigrants go through. in Portugal.
The film is a feature film by the Portuguese Pedro Costa, which had its world premiere in August 2019, at the Locarno Film Festival (Switzerland), where it won the main awards: Golden Leopard and Leopard for Best Female Interpretation for Vitalina Varela, the woman who inspired the story filmed by Pedro Costa.
Since Locarno, the film has won more than 22 awards, the majority for best film and best director, has been part of more than 50 international film festivals and shows and garners rave reviews, having been included in the lists of the best films of the year (2020) by various media. specialized.
The film tells the story of a woman who spent most of her life waiting to meet her husband, Joaquim, who emigrated to Portugal. Knowing that he died, Vitalina Varela arrived in Portugal three days after her funeral.
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