Rostov-Luanda

Abderrahmane Sissako travels to Angola looking for a friend he met when they were both students in the Soviet Union, in the city of Rostov. The search takes him through a country emerging from decades of war.

Part travel diary and part essay, the film is about the friendships and ideals of a generation of Africans who studied in the Eastern bloc, and what became of them. It's an early sign of the gentle, searching style that would shape Sissako's later features.