Àma Gloria

Six-year-old Cléo lives with her kind, but often absent father, and her nanny Gloria, who she loves. But Gloria has to definitively return to Cap Verde to look after her children. The separation is brutal and Cléo is crushed. Her father sends her to spend the summer with Gloria.

Directed and screenplay by: Marie Amachoukeli (France/Belgium, 2022)
Cast: Louise Mauroy-Panzani (Cléo), Ilça Moreno Zego (Gloria), Arnaud Rebotini (Arnaud), Abnara Gomes Varela (Fernanda), Fredy Gomes Tavares (César), Domingos Borges Almeida (Joachim)
Genre: drama
Awards: RTBF Award at BRIFF (Belgium, 2023); Jury Prize at PYIFF (China, 2023); Best International Film at Jerusalem Film Festival (Israel, 2023); selected at Cannes Film Festival Critics' Week France, 2023), Zurich Film Festival (Switzerland, 2023), Cinémania (Canada, 2023), and the Sundance Film Festival (United States, 2023)