Direction: Margarida Cardoso

Direction Margarida Cardoso

Cast Beatriz Batarda · Filipe Duarte · Monica Calle · Adriano Luz

Synopsis At the end of the 60s, Evita arrives in Mozambique and finds herself in a country devastated by the colonial war with Portugal. She is to marry Luís who is doing his military service. When Luís leaves to fight, Evita...

Direction Margarida Cardoso

Direction Margarida Cardoso

Cast Beatriz Batarda · Irene Ravache · Samuel Malumbe · Gonçalo Waddington

Synopsis After her daughter's death, Rita returns to the African country of her childhood to investigate the death of Yvone Kane, a former political activist and guerrilla fighter. There, she becomes embroiled in a journey into the past of a land...

Direction Margarida Cardoso

Cast Carloto Cotta · Hoji Fortuna · Rúben Simões · Gonçalo Waddington

Synopsis 1907. Afonso starts life anew on a tropical island off the African coast, as a plantation physician. He is tasked with treating servants "infected" by Banzo, a profound homesickness fatal to many slaves who succumb to starvation or take their...

Direction Margarida Cardoso

Cast Licinio Azevedo · Camilo de Sousa · Ruy Guerra · Isabel Noronha

Synopsis The first cultural act of Mozambique's government right after independence, in 1975, was creating the National Institute of Cinema [NIC]. The new President, Samora Machel, had a strong conscience of the cinematic potential while creating an image for a new...

Direction Margarida Cardoso

Cast Beatriz Batarda · Sita Valles

Direction Margarida Cardoso

Cast Joana Bárcia · Adriano Luz · Rui Morisson · Nuno Nunes