THE GREAT KILAPY

Almost a decade after winning the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance with The Hero, Zézé Gamboa brings us a sardonic historical drama about Joãozinho, a good-hearted, apolitical con man who pulls off a massive swindle at the expense of the Portuguese colonial administration the day before the Angolan independence in the 70s. Soon after, he finds himself hailed as a hero of the national liberation struggle.

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Gamboa was born in Luanda in 1955. He worked for the Angolan television for six years and he directed his first documentary Mopiopio in 1991. After several years as a producer for public television, he devoted himself to documentaries.