Farewell Amor

Farewell Amor

Directed by Ekwa Msangi • 2020 • United States
Starring Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Zainab Jah, Jayme Lawson

In her luminous feature debut, filmmaker Ekwa Msangi chronicles a broken family’s journey to wholeness with empathy and insight. Seventeen years after his family was separated by the civil war in Angola, a New York taxi driver (Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine) is reunited with his now devoutly religious wife (Zainab Jah) and teenage daughter (Jayme Lawson) when they are finally able to follow him to America. But after living thousands of miles apart for so long, the three find they must discover one another’s strengths, forgive one another’s weaknesses, and bridge cultural and generational divides in order to build a life together. Told in three perspective-shifting chapters that honor the multitude of struggles and emotions that make up the immigrant experience, FAREWELL AMOR is a bittersweet, compassionate evocation of how it feels when your heart and your home are in different places.

Farewell Amor
  • Farewell Amor

    Directed by Ekwa Msangi • 2020 • United States
    Starring Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Zainab Jah, Jayme Lawson

    In her luminous feature debut, filmmaker Ekwa Msangi chronicles a broken family’s journey to wholeness with empathy and insight. Seventeen years after his family was separated by the civil wa...

Extras

  • FARWELL AMOR Commentary

    This commentary, recorded in 2022, features director Ekwa Msangi and director of photography Bruce Francis Cole.

  • Farewell Meu Amor

    This 2016 short film by Ekwa Msangi can be thought of as an immediate prequel to FAREWELL AMOR: it depicts a man on the morning of a long-awaited reunion with his exiled family, and the heartbreak of parting from his lover.

  • The Market King

    In Ekwa Msangi’s 2014 comedic short film THE MARKET KING, a well-intentioned father must have his daughter’s hair braided at the market, a space where only women usually go.

  • Suspense

    Made in 2011 by Ekwa Msangi, SUSPENSE tells the fictional story of a man and woman working for an underground liberation movement. The film is set amid the very real postelection violence in Kenya a few years before it was made.

  • Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Zainab Jah, and Jayme Lawson on FAREWELL AMOR

    In this program, created in 2022, FAREWELL AMOR actors Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine (Walter), Zainab Jah (Esther), and Jayme Lawson (Sylvia), recall making the film.

  • FAREWELL AMOR Deleted Scenes

    The following program presents several scenes deleted from the final cut of FAREWELL AMOR, including an alternate ending.