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Watch Fanado (1984) Online

  • RUNTIME: 0h 22m
  • COUNTRIES: Guinea-Bissau

This film documents the festivities and different stages of an initiation ritual of a Balanta community in Guinea Bissau. The filmmaker Sana na N'Hada, belonging to that same community, at the time of the film production was himself not initiated. Many years later Sana na N'Hada finally experiences the process through Fanado, what produced the acknowledgement of a personal conflict with his own film: the modernist ethnological look casted upon the events, articulated with his comments in the French language contrasts with the ungraspable, implicated in the opacity of those practices. Read More

Watch Fanado online. Featuring , Fanado is classified as Documentary genre movie with an average rating across the web of 0. It is available for streaming online in the UK The movie was filmed in Guinea-Bissau and was released on 1984. Fanado was directed by Sana Na N'Hada. Read Less