S Y N O P S I S

Two friends investigate a state crime committed in Spanish Guinea in 1959. One of them is the son of the colony’s attorney general. The other is an almost blind journalist. The victim is Acacio Mañé, the first black (Fang) who attempted to claim Equatorial Guinea’s sovereignty with the United Nations. Family secrets and the silence of two countries.

Production: Antonia Films

With the support of:

  • Diputación de Cádiz
  • 3boxmedia International Sales
  • Elamedia Estudios
  • Ibermedia
  • Ministerio de Cultura
  • Fundación Carolina
  • AECI
  • SGAE
  • EGEDA
  • Europa Creativa Media – Sources2 Script Check
  • L’Alternativa Festival de Cine Independiente de Barcelona
  • Miradasdoc – Mercado de Cine de Realidad Afrolatam

Country: Spain
Format: 2K / Full HD / 16 mm / Super 8mm / 8 mm
Duration: 80’
Language: Spanish
Current status: production

Direction: Lorenzo Benítez

Script: Món Fernández-Dans, David Morello, Lorenzo Benítez

Executive Production: Lorenzo Benítez / Mercedes Moncada

Cinematographer: Pedro Sara / José Ligero

Direct Sound: Leilah Pérez, Amanda Villavieja

Edition: Óscar Clemente, María Zafra

  • Scholarship for the Ibero-American Film Projects Course 2019, granted by Ibermedia, Ministry of Culture, AECI, Carolina Foundation, SGAE and EGEDA.
  • Post-production Award, granted by Elamedia Studio in the Afrolatam Reality Film Market 2019 (Tenerife).
  • Script workshop. Sources2 Script Check. Creative Europe Media Andalusia.
  • Project lab. L’Alternativa Independent Film Festival, Barcelona.

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