Cape Verde Movies

The story of a father and his son, with Tabanka as a backdrop.

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,...

Quirino, 77, has lived for more than 30 years in an abandoned village, at the bottom of a deep valley, between the sea and the mountains. Feeling the...

The increase in plastic in the seas results in the presence of polymers in the food chain. Cachupa, a typical dish of Cape Verde, has also undergone...

Mindelo is the cultural capital of Cape Verde. Over the years, generations of writers, painters, singers and intellectuals have been the ultimate...

“Land far away” is an expression typical of Cape Verdean emigration, which reveals the distance that emigrants feel in their...

The archipelago of Cape Verde and its society developed, throughout its ethnological formation, a mixture of cultures that transformed and recreated...

With a dance performance, a mother and daughter point out the destruction of the environment. They tell how they survive selling beach sand, knowing...

Trapped in a cycle of colonial exploitation, our forgotten hero Blimundo braves the exhausted landscape of his island and finds a way to release...

Intimate portrait of Dona Mónica, one of the first transgender people from Santiago Island, Cape Verde.

This documentary brings us closer to the harsh reality of a group of 300 women who live in Tarrafal, Santiago Island (Cape Verde). They have found a...

The Volcano’s Last Wish, like most stories, is part fact, part fiction. It is part of cultural history and part cultural fable. Ultimately, it...

The villages of ‘Chã das Caldeiras’ lie inside the caldera of the ‘Pico do Fogo’ volcano in Cabo Verde. After losing...

From a forgotten photo of a group of clandestine Cape-Verdean guerrillas in the mountains of Cuba, Elson, a young filmmaker, searches for the...

The life and death of a wind pump, characteristic element of the agricultural landscape of the Cape Verde archipelago, which belongs to the arid zone...

The Africologist is a futuristic documentary on African History, Science, and Technology. Director Val Lopes and the virtual character, the...

Cape Verde has one of its greatest riches in the sea. Fresh fish is one of the greatest gastronomic delicacies.

A young woman wakes up at night with an overwhelming sense of imminent death, later realising it isn't the night of her death but the beginning of...