Death Metal Angola

Overview

After decades of brutal conflict, Angola is tentatively embracing peace and reconstruction. In the city of Huambo, Sonia Ferreira oversees 55 children at the Okutiuka orphanage. Her partner, Wilker Flores, a passionate death metal guitarist, aims to use the genre's intense rhythms as a means of healing, as Sonia puts it, “to clear out the debris from all these years of war.” This documentary chronicles their ambitious journey to organize Angola’s first national rock concert, uniting diverse members of the country's hardcore music scene amid the remnants of a war-torn landscape.