The official kick-off of Kaboom Animation Festival 2023, the crazy love fest of animation. Let's go!

After kicking off in Utrecht with Expanded Animation, let’s start the Amsterdam festival with animated film and continue the epic animation love fest for everyone who wants to indulge in all things animated. This year, it's all about embracing imperfections, but don't let yourself be fooled: our Opening Night will be the perfect night for animation aficionados!

Highlighting the importance of untold stories, Kaboom 2023 opens with José Miguel Ribeiro's Nayola, an intergeneration story of three women from the same family whose lives have been torn apart by Angola's deathly civil war. It's a haunting evocation of the rippling effects war has on multiple generations. Even though a festival is a celebration of art, we must not be blind for the horrors brave people in the midst of bloody conflicts go through.

Kaboom Animation Festival, il Luster and Periscoop Film invite you to share this experience with us. This program is by invitation only.

In the presence of director José Miguel Ribeiro and voice actress Medusa.

This program screened as part of Kaboom Animation Festival 2023

Showing in this program

Nayola

• José Miguel Ribeiro
• Portugal / Belgium / France / The Netherlands, 2022
• 83 min.

Angola. Three generations of women in a 25-year-long civil war: Lelena (the grandmother), Nayola (the daughter) and Yara (the granddaughter). Past and present interlace. Nayola goes in search of her missing husband at the height of the war. Decades later, the country is finally at peace but Nayola has not returned. Yara has become a rebellious teenager and a subversive rap singer. Lelena tries to contain her for fear of the police coming to arrest her. One night, a masked intruder breaks into their house, armed with a machete. An encounter like nothing they could have imagined.