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- The people of Wakanda fight to protect their home from intervening world powers as they mourn the death of King T'Challa.
- 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 Cape Verdean woman navigates her way through Lisbon, following the scanty physical traces her deceased husband left behind and discovering his secret, illicit life.
- The film follows the daily life of Vanda Duarte, a heroin addict in Lisbon, and the community she lives in.
- With the destruction of Fontainhas nearly complete, the old man Ventura wanders around a bleak housing project and the ruins of the slums, meeting with his kids and old friends.
- A suicidal young woman gives her newborn child up to his deadbeat father in the Fontainhas slums of Lisbon.
- 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.
- A young man falls helplessly in love with a mysterious blonde woman who turns his life upside down.
- Three young sisters are set apart by the eruption of Fogo. But they sing. One day, we will know why we live and why we suffer.
- 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.
- 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.
- A documentary about the islands in the Atlantic, about the islanders and their stories.
- TV Mini Series
- Cape Verde, 1964. At the feet of a mighty volcano, the traditional Cape Verdean society is undergoing a steady change. The old land-owning aristocracy is disintegrating. A class of "mulattos" begins to emerge, with a trade-based financial power that threatens the landlords. A new identity arises, a mix of old and new, of African and Portuguese culture, sensual and dynamic. The songs of Cesária Évora follow this inevitable transformation. From the novel by Henrique Teixeira de Sousa.
- 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".
- 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.
- 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.
- The story of Miguel Moreira and Ruben Furtado, two Cape Verdean immigrant descendants who live in Portugal but have no legal documents. They are torn between the desire to be a full Portuguese citizen and the obstacles they find in their day to day. Proud of being who they are they keep on dreaming of their future reflecting their wishes for a better life. Above all, Michael and Ruben lead us to one question: What kind of identity has a stateless person?
- A traditional fairy tale of Cape Verde.
- Palco is a prime-time talk-show with diverse content, giving art creators a platform to showcase music and culture at large. This is a space of cultural exchange, conversations about art, highlight emerging talents, present established names, and document the countless work done in Cape Verde, to ensure they get preserved in the public record as Cape Verdean productions. The show also hosts prominent public thinkers and (artists, art lovers, etc.) to anchor interviews in which they share their current work and thoughts, at a time the country is moving toward an artistic realization.
- In 1462, the first African slaves were settled on the island of Cape Verde brought by the Portuguese colons. It is supposed that they were the first inhabitants of the archipelagos. They carried with them the rhythms and the seeds of what became the BATUQUE: a music form, performed mostly by women, both singers and dancers. The singers, repeat very strong lyrics, sitting in a circle and beating the rhythms with their hands on a piece of cloth between their legs. While one woman performs a very sensual dance with her hips in the middle of the circle. During the colonial era, it has been strongly forbidden but it remained alive in clandestinity. The group Raiz de Tambarina, one of the oldest groups of Batuque on Santiago island, is composed of ordinary people, saleswomen, fish merchants, drivers... Through their every day life and performances we discover Cape Verde today and their passion for the Batuque.
- In an astonishing exposition of choreographic fomentation, nine African choreographers tell stories of an emergent art form and their diverse and deeply contemporary expressions of self. Stunning choreography and riveting critiques challenge stale stereotypes of "traditional Africa" to unveil soul-shaking responses to the beauty and tragedy of 21st century Africa.
- 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.