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- After saying "no" on her wedding day, Joice leaves the Ivory Coast to start a new life in Guangzhou, China.
- 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.
- A woman narrates the contemplative writings of a seasoned world traveler, focusing on contemporary Japan.
- 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.
- 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 ...
- 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.
- 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.
- "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!
- Jonathan (age 25) embarks on the adventure of a lifetime where a game of dice controls his life choices.
- 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.
- 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.
- A traditional fairy tale of Cape Verde.
- 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.
- The story of a father and his son, with Tabanka as a backdrop.
- A documentary about the islands in the Atlantic, about the islanders and their stories.
- 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.