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Farewell Amor is an intimate and deeply personal look at an inter-generational tale that has defined America since its inception.
After 17 years apart, Angolan immigrant Walter is joined in the U.S. by his wife and teen daughter. Now absolute strangers sharing a one bedroom Brooklyn apartment, they struggle to overcome the emotional distance between them. Walter is trying to let go of a previous relationship while his wife Esther struggles with a new country, culture and a husband who seems distant. Their daughter Sylvia is a dancer just like her father, and while she also finds her new life difficult, she bravely starts to explore the city and show herself through dance. The film is both a universal immigrant story and the unique perspective of three characters bound together by history and hope.
Director’s statement: “Much is reported in the news about immigrants, and what they take from the societies that they immigrate to, but I don’t see nearly as much reported on what immigrants give up, the lengths they go to, and the will power and faith that it takes to remain hopeful that one day they will live normal and happy lives together with their loved ones. […] I spent my childhood split between the US and Kenya. I was born in the California Bay where my parents had immigrated as Fulbright scholars from Tanzania, and then when I was five my family moved to Kenya where I spent my formative years through the end of high school before once again moving back to the US. In both places, we as a Tanzanian family, essentially lived as immigrants. All my memories and understanding of what “home” meant was centered around the sharing of food, music and dance. Many of the Africans/Tanzanians, some who were exiled and unsure whether they would ever return home, relied on music and dance to remain connected to their culture and homeland. It was how they were able to share their culture with their children who were born abroad. Dancing to a particular song created a muscle-memory that preserved what they hoped they could one day return to.”
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