Country: Angola

Direction Zézé Gamboa

Cast Makena Diop · Milton Coelho · Patrícia Bull · Neuza Borges

Synopsis Ever since its 30-year civil war ended in April 2002, the country of Angola has been struggling to piece itself back together. Director Zézé Gamboa's beautifully crafted film The Hero is emblematic of this national effort. Indeed, its extraordinary level...

Direction Sarah Maldoror

Cast Domingos de Oliveira · Elisa Andrade · Jean M'Vondo · Dino Abelino

Synopsis Domingos is a member of an African liberation movement, arrested by the Portuguese secret police, after bloody events in Angola. He does not betray his companions, but is beaten to death in prison, and not knowing he is dead, his...

Direction Sarah Maldoror

Cast Mohammed Zineth

Direction Maria João Ganga

Cast João Roldan · Domingos Fernandes Fonseca · Júlia Botelho · Ana Bustorff

Synopsis A group of children, fleeing the war, is taken to Luanda accompanied by a nun. When they reach the aeroplane, 12-year-old N'Dala decides to leave the group and to reconnoitre the city. The nun then starts her unceasing quest for...

Direction Carlos Conceição

Cast João Arrais · Isabel Abreu · Carlos Conceição

Synopsis A young man drifts through a post-disaster African landscape looking for his mother's ghost.

Direction Mario Bastos

Cast Benilson Almeida · David Caracol · Silas Cassuma · Adalberto Cawaia

Synopsis When air conditioners in Luanda begin to mysteriously fall from building windows, a security guard embarks on a pleasantly surreal, jazz-inflected journey through the Angolan capital.

Direction Maradona Dias Dos Santos · Chris Roland

Cast Paulo Americano · Terence Bridgett · Tamer Burjaq · Nompilo Gwala

Synopsis Two cops, two brothers. One is out for justice, the other revenge. They may kill each other before capturing the bad guys.

Direction Kiluanje Liberdade · Ondjaki

Synopsis Angola: thirty years of independence, three years of peace. Capital, Luanda, a city built for 600 thousand people where four million now live. Ten characters guide us through different ways of living and interpreting the city. People from all of...

Direction Richard Pakleppa

Direction Maradona Dias Dos Santos · Chris Roland

Cast David O'Hara · Hakeem Kae-Kazim · Jenna Upton · Paul Hampshire

Synopsis Thirty-five years ago Matias Santana was only six when he witnesses the brutal murder of his parents, with his unborn brother, Dias, still in his mother's womb. Flash forward and the brothers have both taken up careers serving their country,...

Direction Abderrahmane Sissako

Direction Ondjaki

Cast Renata Torres · Kaila Nahary · Luana Nahary · Njaya de Almeida

Synopsis On a rainy night, a woman reflects on her past, present and future. Among memories of family, husband and war, there is a reflection on the condition of the African woman. It is also a symbolic look at life during...

Direction Mario Bastos

Cast Kalaf Epalanga · Elisângela Rita · Augusto Loth · Adolfo Francisco

Direction Sérgio Graciano

Cast Lesliana Pereira · Ana Santos · Erica Chissapa · Sílvio Nascimento

Synopsis In the 17th century a warrior woman fights for the independence of Angola. After witnessing the murder of her son and watching her people being humiliated by Portuguese colonizers, Njinga will become a Queen and struggle for their liberation embodying...

Direction Ruy Duarte de Carvalho

Cast António Tyitenda · Francisco Munyele · Tyiapinga Primeira · Ndyanka Liuima

Synopsis Adapted from two legends of the Nyaneka people in southeastern Angola. Set during a time of famine, and with only two families surviving, the film charts the struggle of Nelisita, a young man who confronts the spirits with help from...

Direction Mariano Bartolomeu

Cast Afonso Malheiro · Maria João Swart · Sandra Pitra · Victoria Domingos

Synopsis A young jet pilot fighter Quim has great difficulty accepting that his recently born child is disabled. His mother advises him to see a witch doctor, but Quim refuses. Instead he looks for his former mistress Djamila. His mind is...

Direction Ery Claver

Cast Cláudia Púcuta · David Caracol · Willi Ribeiro

Synopsis When a chinese merchant brings to a neighborhood of Luanda a peculiar plastic holy figure of Our Lady, a mourning mother will seek peace, a committed barber starts a new cult and a stray kid will look for revenge for...

Direction Zézé Gamboa

Cast Alberto Magassela · Ilda Abdala · Eliote Alex · Esperança Naiene

Direction Sérgio Graciano

Cast Heloísa Jorge