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- A man is wrongfully arrested and tortured to death after he is suspected of being part of a revolutionary group.
- 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.
- Beauty, seduction, betrayal and the ultimate struggle for power play out in an Angolan lifestyle magazine house.
- 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 20-year veteran of the Angolan civil war returns to the capital city of Luanda where he faces the challenges of assimilation and survival.
- 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.
- What happens in a world gone mad - when it becomes brother against brother??
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A young man drifts through a post-disaster African landscape looking for his mother's ghost.
- 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.
- A Ne Kunda Nlaba's untold story and biopic documentary film about Kimpa Vita a 22 years old young woman burned alive on 02 July 1706 in Mbanza Kongo in the Kongo Kingdom for the revolution against slavery.
- 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.
- Five dancers explore the concepts of tradition, culture, memory, and identity, questioning the transformation and deconstruction of these themes in their own lives.
- The role of women in the struggle to liberate black Angola from its white Portuguese colonialist rulers.
- 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.
- A Luanda musseke under permanent construction shelters the kid poets. DJ Buda is one of them. In his computer, Buda brings to life mesmerizing electronic rhythms. They all want to try his machine oozing kuduro sound. Each boy tells his story in his own fashion. "I am more contained, so they call me Mellow". They want to listen to themselves. They dance. DJ Buda's parties are very successful, with food, drink and dance all night long. "Music Factory" is a hymn: it shows how Angolans are able to create, produce, sell and consume their own product, in this case music. A true cry of independence.
- 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.
- "You didn't pay for? You don't drink" is the law in the neighborhood - But, patter can be currency.
- 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.
- 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.
- A sweet friendship refreshes the soul.
- Dois grupos de jovens em idade escolar (entre os 15 e os 18 anos), organizados em torno de Sebas e Tchi, vêem-se obrigados a conviver na mesma escola, sendo por isso levados a partilhar momentos de aprendizagem e entreajuda que nunca sonharam ser possíveis. Apesar desta circunstância os aproximar fisicamente, os dois grupos mantêm até ao final uma grande rivalidade que se materializa na disputa entre os seus diferentes grupos de hip hop, nas equipas de basquete, nos namoros, etc. Esporadicamente, e quando um objectivo comum os une, viverão momentos de convívio saudável e vantajoso para todos mas que, fruto das personalidades muito marcadas dos líderes dos dois grupos, rapidamente se dissolverão. A alegria e jovialidade própria de uma história centrada na juventude são muitas vezes cortadas pelo facto de nem tudo serem rosas na relação entre o herói e o seu antagonista sendo continuamente criadas as condições para que haja sempre tensão entre os dois grupos - por vezes essa tensão revela-se na criatividade, outras vezes na oposição às relações amorosas entre membros dos dois grupos e outras vezes ainda através de acções que ameaçam prejudicar um dos grupos Os 150 episódios correspondem aproximadamente ao decurso de um ano lectivo durante o qual o conflito entre os dois grupos se desenvolve através de histórias/problemas parcelares que vão encontrando soluções parciais para que, no final, o grande conflito dê lugar a uma situação harmónica.
- A soldier, a beautiful woman, two robberies, a war, a contest and an encounter.
- 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 animals and his friends. Inspired from two folktales of the Ovanyaneka agropastoralist people in southern Angola.
- 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.
- This is a story of a young jobless man called James. He was love and married to a young and dedicated working lady called Janet. She did every thing to make her husband comfortable in their marriage but Janet mother was against the marriage simply because James was jobless and unproductive as a man. So Janet's mother treated him with disgrace and cruelty but because Janet loves her husband, she did everything she can and through her Pastor got a powerful job for James. The ugly idea of bad company torn everything apart when James had gotten money and now decided to level score with Janet's mother by treating disdainfully his wife, the finger that fed him.....