Alda et Maria
Drama, directed by Pocas Pascoal, 2012, Portugal, 94 minutes.
Portuguese with English subtitles
Lisbon, late summer 1980. Two sisters, sixteen and seventeen years old have just arrived from Angola to escape the war. Left to fend for themselves, Alda and her younger sister Maria will have to learn to survive in a foreign city without financial means. With the support of others in the Angolan community, in a gray, polluted suburb, they put together a precarious existence. This exile will teach them how to fulfill their destiny by becoming strong and dignified women…