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- A woman narrates the contemplative writings of a seasoned world traveler, focusing on contemporary Japan.
- Six-year-old Cléo loves her nanny Gloria more than anything. When Gloria must return to Cape Verde to care for her own children, the two must make the most of their last summer together.
- After saying "no" on her wedding day, Joice leaves the Ivory Coast to start a new life in Guangzhou, China.
- A bright student in Nigeria takes on the academic establishment when she reports a popular professor who tried to rape her. Based on real events.
- The film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker in a comatose sleep on his trip home to Cape Verde. The devoted Portuguese nurse took a journey only to find herself lost in abstract drama.
- World renowned Grammy Award winning singer Cesária Évora from Cabo Verde in a new, intimate documentary. With previously unseen footage and insights into the singer's life, the film follows the struggles and success of the Barefoot Diva.
- Using film and television footage taken during the revolutionary movement of April 25, 1974 in Portugal, and mixing it with music and live interviews with common people, the director conveys a vivid account of the period in which a military coup evolved to a socialist revolution, then was tempered into a formal european style democracy.
- This is the story of Gerard, a man who miraculously survived an explosion that destroyed his apartment and killed a lot of people. During the next few days he tries to find out why he survived and others died.
- A chance meeting sets 25-year-old Portuguese Rastafarian Djon África on the track of his roots in Cape Verde. He hopes to finally find his father, an adventurer whom he doesn't know. But things never go as planned in life - and particularly in this charming search for Djon's identity.
- Independence begins with memories of the colonial situation in Angola, reveals the first steps in the struggle and covers the main settings where it took place. From 1961 to 1974, the war in Angola spread from the bush areas in the North and Cabinda to the flood plains in the East, involving many, many people, the guerrillas and those that supported them. Meanwhile, prisons and prison camps were full of political prisoners. Using military endeavour as well as economic and legal reforms, Portugal managed to prolong a war that it could not win.
- Jonathan (age 25) embarks on the adventure of a lifetime where a game of dice controls his life choices.
- Biographical documentary on Anselmo Ralph, currently one of Africa's major artist. There are no such thing as boundaries in music and Anselmo's music has definitely conquered all continents, not only his homeland, Angola, a country that named him as the biggest singer and performer of his generation. The camera follows Anselmo footsteps. On the road, at home, recording new songs in studio, interacting with fans, visiting his Angolan roots,... Different perspective of the same reality.
- A book is buried under a mango tree in a backyard in Cape Verde, initiating a journey to reconstruct a fictional, geographic, emotional, and identitary cartography of loss, based on the five stages of grief.
- A feature film documenting one of the greatest of modern theoreticians of the African Revolution and founder of the Party for the Independence of Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde, Amilcar Cabral. Also known by his nom de guerre, Abel Djassi. He is an agronomist, a writer, a poet and one of Africa's foremost anti-colonial leaders. His mission was to eradicate Portuguese colonial rule in the exploitation, moral and physical propensity for repressive practices based on their absolute refusal to regard the African as a human being.
- "The Windsurfing Movie" has been hailed by festivals, magazines, fans and professionals alike as the defining film about windsurfing. Directed by award-winning cinematographer Johnny DeCesare and featuring the best riders in windsurfing history, "The Windsurfing Movie" conveys the beauty, history, challenges and extreme dangers of this breath-taking sport. Filmed on location in Belgium, Cabo Verde, Fiji, Germany, Maui, Morocco, New Cacedonia, Oahu and Pozo!
- Angela and Jair travel the volcanic coast beaten by the ocean in search of the small fry that will ensure their survival in a fishing village. They must coexist with fans of big- game fishing , who have come to hunt down blue marlin. Through finely composed shots, Pierre-François Sauter shows the effects of international tourism above ground in Cape Verde.
- A young woman, alienated by her work and confronted to her surroundings, falls into a depression that leads her to live in a sewer to find her identity. In there, life is no better; reality appears in images and allegoric figures that change its form and vanishes, without letting the woman communicate with anyone. It's a film with zero dialog in witch the songs takes us through the states of emotion.
- The Other Side of the Atlantic is a documentary that builts a bridge in the ocean that separates Brazil and Africa. The film tackles the cultural exchanges, the imaginary created through the mirroring, the prejudice and dreams built in both sides of the atlantic through the life stories of the students of african countries in transit through Brazil.
- Tchinda is one of most beloved women in Cape Verde, especially after she came out as a transgender person in the local newspaper in 1998. Since then, her name has become the term used by locals to name queer Cape Verdeans. Despite her great reputation, Tchinda remains humble and every afternoon she happily tours the neighborhood to sell her best "coxinhas", a classic Brazilian treat: delicious fried balls of chicken. But every February all changes. It's the month leading up to their Carnival, when the slow-paced atmosphere of the island transforms into a frenzied hustle and bustle as thousands flock to the streets. The days before the Carnival are hectic. Locals join forces to create something beautiful out of nothing. It becomes a «Little Brazil» as their most acclaimed singer, Cesária Évora (1941-2011), defined in one of her most famous "mornas". This documentary is as trip to an unknown side of Africa that very few may have ever imagined.
- Nopumoceno, the most successful businessman in the Cabo Verde archipelogo, is an ambitious, clever opportunist, known during his lifetime as "eternity single". However, he is then discovered by his illegitimate daughter to have gotten his fortune and his women in unorthodox and incredible ways ...
- At the turn of the 20th century, Isabelle fell in love with the African desert, donning men's clothing to travel and record her adventures in writing while her Muslim husband patiently waited at home.
- Life has moved too fast for Mane. at the age of 50 he watches the slow sacrifice of his ideals. His wife, Lucy, has locked him in to a daily routine. His work in a small commercial shop and grocer's has worn him out. His dreams have evaporated into the drought of the beaten earth of Mindelo. Now forgotten, with his past as a great football player for Mindelense, in St Vincent in Cape Verde, he only has the belated compassion of his friends, neighbours, and cafe companions: "He was important", "He was the keeper in Cape Verde", "He could have played for Benfica!" Mane rejects the loss of his status as a hero. When training a youth team he sees himself again in KALU, a rebellious but talented youth. He is guided by a whirlwind of thoughts; he was also young, had opportunities, felt the sting of love and wasted his flame. A beaten leather ball shines in his hands once again, Benfica, his club, calls him to the Portuguese Cup Final.
- Documentary interviewing two women in the Czech Republic who were involved in the World Women Project. Finding out why they took part and what the World Women Project meant to them personally.
- In 1911, Orlando Ribeiro, humanist, art lover, erudite explorer of the world, founded the scientific basis of the National Geography and becomes an unique figure of this science. His field notes and photos of his inseparable Leica need to be shared on a documentary that aims to bring together the absolute richness obtained through this so perceptive and sensitive perspective: the geographer's eye. The camera traveled to places that the master Orlando Ribeiro helped us to understand and love. Arrábida, Beira Baixa, Madeira, Capelinhos and the Fire Island are some of the places we have revisited.
- André, a Cape Verdean immigrant in Lisbon, receives a letter from his father asking him to return to solve a family problem. João, his younger brother, has become involved with his wife and André needs to clean up the dishonor that has befallen the family.
- In striking imagery, smoldering lava spews out over the idyllic volcanic island of Fogo - a symbol of the blessings and curses in the lives of the three protagonists, who have courageously defied fate to find love, happiness and a home on the Cape Verde Islands. If you want to change your life with all your heart, you can do it!" Alcindo has overcome the poverty of his family in the volcanic crater village - Laeticia from France wants to live there with him, on the Cape Verdean island of Fogo. Ex-bodybuilder Vincent was able to escape his traumas in Denmark and find peace with his family at the foot of the volcano. Ralph left Germany behind and with his love Ella created a plant paradise on the inhospitable volcano island. They all stood on the abyss, they all courageously took their lives into their own hands. In impressive pictures and with simple clarity the film shows at the same time the vulnerability and the power of nature and people. Each picture and each conversation sensitively captures these contrasts. And when the lava dances on the volcano, we understand the magic and violence of life.
- A documentary about the islands in the Atlantic, about the islanders and their stories.
- Nine year old Carlos lives in Fogo in Cape Verde with his poor grandmother and some relatives, while his mother has gone to rich Norway to earn money to build a house for them in Fogo. But Carlos is impatiently awaiting his mother.
- TV Series
- Cabralista-an ambitious documentary trilogy about political activist Amilcar Cabral.
- Three African humans talking his Interviewed.
- Based upon history books, a filmmaker expects to find extreme conditions while sailing across the Atlantic. When he realizes there is nothing spectacular to expose, he decides to add the excitement himself.
- A documentary by the Portuguese Government cinematographic mission to the first holiday cruise to the West African colonies, namely Guiné-Bissau, Cape Verde, San Tomé and Príncipe, and Angola.
- Epifânia Évora loved music and the piano, the most anyone can. Throughout her life, she turned joy and pain into melodies and sang them, breaking all conventions. To this nonagenarian Cape Verdean woman, daughter of the coladera's creator and mother of 14 children, life only made sense with applause. Did she hear all the applause she deserved? From the glorious and warm nights at the Café Royal in Mindelo, to her intimate family life in the inhospitable island of Sal, we traveled with this passionate woman and celebrated with her the unique culture of a country of musicians, that tenderly called her "Dona Tututa".
- The story of a father and his son, with Tabanka as a backdrop.