Seventeen years apart leave a father and his family strangers under one roof in Farewell Amor, a 2020 drama directed by Ekwa Msangi.
What is Farewell Amor about?
Walter left Angola long before his wife and daughter could join him, and now, after a separation stretching nearly two decades, the three of them are finally back together in a cramped one-bedroom apartment. The years apart have left them without a shared rhythm — small habits, unspoken routines, even how to talk to one another have all drifted. What starts to close the distance is not conversation but movement: a love of dance that turns out to run through all three of them, offering a wordless way back toward each other when ordinary talk keeps falling short.
About the cast
Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine plays Walter, with Zainab Jah and Jayme Lawson as his wife and daughter, alongside Joie Lee, Marcus Scribner and Nana Mensah rounding out the family's new life in the United States.
Context & significance
The film tells its story from more than one point of view within the same household, letting each family member's version of the reunion color how the others come across. That structure suits a story about immigration and long separation, where the same apartment and the same silences read differently depending on whose day you are following. Produced in the United States, the film keeps its scale intentionally small and personal rather than building outward into a wider immigrant-community narrative.
Watching Farewell Amor on Ktime
Farewell Amor streams on K-Time with a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, and browsing the title page costs nothing before you sign in. Watching requires a K-Time account login, and the platform's Farsi-first design lets Persian-speaking viewers move easily between the dubbed and subtitled versions of this and other titles.