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Karlovy Vary Competitor ‘Banzo’ Brings the Deadly Heartbreak of Colonialism to the Screen

Margarida Cardoso’s “Banzo,” which plays in the main competition section of Karlovy Vary Film Festival this week, is a deeply evocative consideration of the literal heartbreak of colonialism in Africa. It was filmed on location on the islands of São Tomé and Príncipe, where ruins remain today of the cocoa plantations her characters populate.

 

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