African Film Archive

Po di Sangui (Tree of Blood)

1996 — Flora Gomes — Guinea-Bissau, France, Tunisia, Portugal

feature · drama · video-wave

In a village where a tree is planted for every birth and becomes a person's soul when they die, a nomad returns home after his twin brother's death and must take his place within the family, in Flora Gomes's meditation on the bond between people and the land.

Fun fact: The film premiered in competition at Cannes 1996 and has been called one of the high points of 1990s African cinema.

Notes: Four-country co-production; runtime 95 minutes.

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Poster source: Wikipedia