Angola Movies

Filmed over nearly five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on seventy-millimetre film, Samsara transports us to the varied...

Guinea-Bissau, 1969. A violent war between the Portuguese colonial army and the guerrillas of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea. Nome...

In 1974, after years of civil war, the Portuguese and their descendants fled the colony of Angola where groups working for independence gradually...

Domingos is a member of an African liberation movement, arrested by the Portuguese secret police, after bloody events in Angola. His wife goes from a...

Film by Gegé M´bakudi

One day, air conditioners in the Angolan capital Luanda start to mysteriously fall from buildings. When security guard Matacedo is told to get his...

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...

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...

Five dancers explore the concepts of tradition, culture, memory, and identity, questioning the transformation and deconstruction of these themes in...

An ex-boxer who is pursued by professional criminals, tries to take refuge in a Caribbean town with his girlfriend and his disciple. Story loosely...

"CATANAS POINT - A Surf Documentary" portrays the reality of the sport of surfing in Angola and compares it with what surfing was like in Brazil from...

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...

The daily life of Luanda's orphans, the child soldiers who took part in Angola's war of independence. Now that their country has been liberated, they...

The story of King and Talibam, two poor and unemployedbrothers from Luanda who, wanting to change their lives, decide to become robbers.

Portrait of the children born while the war was still going on and members of the Pioneers, MPLA’s youth organisation. As the title predicts,...

Uíge, Angola. Inside a Portuguese catholic seminar, different forms of silence are experienced. A place inhabited by multiple sonorities and...

An Afro-Portuguese pair navigates through the ropes of their unresolved love affair and their Black Portuguese identity.

A man on his quest for free drinks tells the story of a local girls search for vengeance

The Sun Still Shines is a documentary that presents a slice of the life of people who question their future when their only recourse is food aid. It...