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- A man is wrongfully arrested and tortured to death after he is suspected of being part of a revolutionary group.
- Beauty, seduction, betrayal and the ultimate struggle for power play out in an Angolan lifestyle magazine house.
- 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 the motto: those who stay fight to win.
- When the air-conditioners mysteriously start to fall in city of Luanda, Matacedo (security guard) and Zezinha (housemaid) have the mission of retrieving their boss's ac.
- A young man drifts through a post-disaster African landscape looking for his mother's ghost.
- A 20-year veteran of the Angolan civil war returns to the capital city of Luanda where he faces the challenges of assimilation and survival.
- When a chinese merchant brings to a neighbourhood of Luanda a peculiar holy plastic 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 his lost friend.
- Abuses by the Portuguese slave traders in their colony of Angola are depicted through the torture of one prisoner, based on ignorance and incomprehension.
- Zézé Gamboa's sardonic historical drama follows a good-hearted, apolitical con man who, on the eve of Angolan independence in the mid-1970s, pulls off a massive swindle at the expense of the Portuguese colonial administration.
- What happens in a world gone mad - when it becomes brother against brother??
- Film Producer and Director, Ne Kunda Nlaba, a descendant of the Kingdom of Kongo and his team take on a journey in search this once great African Empire also known as Kongo Dia Ntotila.
- When a professional assassin has a bad day at work, her whole world is shaken and her mark proves to hide more than one enigma behind the surface.
- 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, Dias leading an elite police force and Matias a general in the military. When Dias and Matias learn that Ferreira, Angola's number one crime boss, is the same man who murdered their parents, one seeks revenge and the other justice. But Ferreira is running his operations from Cape Town, out of their jurisdiction. Now Dias and Matias must illegally cross into South Africa without getting caught and take down the man who took their parents. The only thing standing in their way is each other.
- A group of children, fleeing the war, is taken to Luanda accompanied by a nun. When they reach the airplane, 11-year-old N'dala decides to leave the group and to explore the city. The nun then starts her unceasing quest for the missing boy. N'dala, carrying only a textile bag and a toy car made of wire, walks through the busy streets filled with people and traffic. Later he finds the tranquility of the beach, where he meets the old fisherman Antonio, with whom he becomes friends. Not much later, he meets the lively, whimsical Zé, who is a little older than he is. N'dala starts to experience the city and its inhabitants as increasingly forbidding and he would most like to return to his countryside. Then he meets Joka, a fringe figure who persuades him to help with a robbery in exchange for money. With this film, Maria Joao Ganga wanted to provide a realistic sketch of the bitter political situation in Angola. One of her most important motivations for making In the Empty City was to provide a picture of an African city without awakening feelings of a patronizing sympathy or associations with the sensationalism of war.
- 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.
- 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.
- What seemed to be a return trip to my country at a time of changes, ends as a trip into my self between contradictions and questionings about my identity as a Cuban.
- 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 the country's provinces meet at this crossroads. They are the life of the city, transforming it by inventing ways to make money and reinventing themselves.
- A soldier, a beautiful woman, two robberies, a war, a contest and an encounter.
- Após ter assassinado a Mulher por ganância, Otchaly Hanji, um artista plástico bem sucedido, faz recair sobre sua família uma maldição,então uma onda de segredos e mistérios transformam a vida dos Hanji's num verdadeiro Inferno na Terra.
- Born in Mauritania and raised in Mali, Abderrahmane Sissako received a scholarship to study film in Moscow, after graduating from school. To learn Russian, he was sent to Rostov on the Don river for an entire year. On the endless train ride from Moscow to Rostov, he met Baribanga, an Angolan student who was going to the same language school. That year, far from home, the two Africans became friends. Almost two decades later, Sissako decides to search for Baribanga. Rostov-Luanda tells two stories, the search for the long-lost friend, that leads to an encounter with present-day Angola. It is also a personal retrospective, a film about departure and journeying, from Mauritania, to Mali and then to the former Soviet Union, and the new destination in the film, Angola. The film weaves histories of many countries and their intertwinement, the confusion of a continent becomes a sensual experience, and we perceive something of the history of Africa.
- The end of the Ondyelwa. Scenes from the three last days of the festival in which the population of the old Kingdom of Jau participate yearly.
- The story of one man's struggle to cope with the birth of his deformed child as he runs back and forth between his wife, mistress, and mother.
- With its title taken from Agostinho Neto's 1960's poem, the piece echoes the call for a return to the resources and cultural traditions of Angola, while it draws differences between these and the conceptions of nature and development introduced in Africa by Portuguese and Chinese peoples.