Angola Movies

The history and myth of a ghost island off the SW African coast are told through a dystopian parable, in which a character undergoes brainwashing to...

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

After accepting a mysterious box to deliver, a young man crosses the city feeling watched until he reaches the final destination and the mission...

X, a young man navigating the intensity of life in Luanda — a city that mirrors the energy and contradictions of many African megacities....

Man Ré dreams of traveling to outer space... but what if this actually happens? In 2017, Angola launched its first satellite into space... and...

The Angolan Civil War still casts its shadow across the life of a young widow. The camera wanders through the rooms in her house, recording everyday...

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...

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

It is a monochromatic experimental film that uses the language of colors to represent a powerful cycle of problematic situations in Luanda through...

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,...

A being that has only bodily existence, an object used to satisfy needs and desires. On the screen, Lúcia preserves only a distant look that...

50 Kwanzas follows Tchicolassonhi, a ‘Zungueira’ (in Angola, the term for female street vendors), in her daily struggle for better...

When Matias goes to deliver his dowry to his fiance's father, an unexpected accident makes him realize how much he is willing to fight for her love.

Vissolela is the young daughter of a successful family; she falls in love with Nelson, a struggling young orphan. Although they belong to opposite...

1978 Angolan documentary.

1978 Angolan documentary

Driver Gil (Gilmário Vemba) has a large debt incurred in the loan sharking market. In the middle of a shootout, in which his car is hit by 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...

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