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Banzo

Name: Banzo
Released: 2024

2024

On a Portuguese colonial plantation in early-20th-century São Tomé, a doctor confronts an epidemic of banzo — a fatal homesickness afflicting enslaved and indentured African laborers torn from their homelands. Margarida Cardoso's haunting drama of colonial cruelty.

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