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Casa de Lava

Director in Person
Screening on Film
$10 Special Event Tickets
Directed by Pedro Costa.
With Inês de Medeiros, Isaach De Bankolé, Edith Scob.
Portugal/France/Germany, 1995, 35mm, color, 110 min.
Portuguese with English subtitles.
Print source: Filmmaker

As a volcano restlessly stirs on the Cape Verdean island of Fogo, a young Portuguese nurse agrees to transport an injured migrant worker home from Lisbon and deliver medical supplies to battle a cholera epidemic on the island. A work of rare beauty and poise, Casa de Lava is the first feature in which Costa focused on the people of Cape Verde who would populate most of his subsequent feature films.

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