Sana Na N’Hada was born in Enxalé in Guinea-Bissau in 1950. Sent to Cuba by the revolutionary leader Amilcar Cabral with four other apprentice filmmakers, he studied at the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Arts and Industries (ICAIC). On his return to Guinea, he filmed the war of independence. His cinema will subsequently be constructed in a back and forth between the memory of the Portuguese occupation, the struggles for independence and a meditation on the destruction of traditional societies in Guinea-Bissau – and, with them, of an ecological model where man accepts the powers of a nature to which he knows he belongs.