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- A career bank robber breaks out of jail, and shares a moment of mutual attraction with a U.S. Marshal he has kidnapped.
- After a family tragedy, a racist prison guard re-examines his attitudes while falling in love with the African-American wife of the last prisoner he executed.
- A nun, while comforting a convicted killer on death row, empathizes with both the killer and his victim's families.
- Filmed over nearly five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on seventy-millimetre film, Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes, and natural wonders.
- After being double crossed and thrown in jail, a deformed gangster gets a new face and rehabilitation, but his desire for revenge looms.
- The cruel acts of animal poaching and violence, executions, and tribal slaughtering, all taking place on the African continent.
- A gripping story of a three-month-long journey that renowned Polish reporter Ryszard Kapuscinski took across Angola, ravaged by a war in which the front lines shifted like a kaleidoscope, from one day to the next.
- A modern day musical reimagining of the beloved Charles Dickens classic, "A Christmas Carol".
- A story of the almost impossible love between Luís Miguel and Mara, set in Lisbon and Luanda. The relationship of Luís and Mara will be affected with the conspiracies and secrets of their friends and family, either in Portugal or Angola, as the lives of each character is changed by those same conspiracies and secrets.
- Angola. Three generations of women in a 25-year-long civil war: Lelena (the grandmother), Nayola (the daughter) and Yara (the granddaughter). Past and present interlace. Nayola goes in search of her missing husband at the height of the war. Decades later, the country is finally at peace but Nayola has not returned. Yara has become a rebellious teenager and a subversive rap singer. Lelena tries to contain her for fear of the police coming to arrest her. One night, a masked intruder breaks into their house, armed with a machete. An encounter like nothing they could have imagined.
- Two cops, two brothers. One is out for justice, the other revenge. They may kill each other before capturing the bad guys.
- Beauty, seduction, betrayal and the ultimate struggle for power play out in an Angolan lifestyle magazine house.
- A passionate conservation biologist brings together a river bushman fearful of losing his past and a young scientist uncertain of her future on an epic, four-month expedition across three countries, through unexplored and dangerous landscapes, in order to save the Okavango Delta, one of our planet's last pristine wildernesses.
- A man escapes from a Louisiana prison to be at the California hospital bedside of his ailing son.
- Prince Harry and Meghan Markle take a trip to Africa to oversee the charity he started 15 years ago. He has a chance to walk in Diana's footsteps, meet Desmond Tutu, and see how he has improved lives in the villages.
- A pompous, adventure-seeking businessman journeys through Africa with a clumsy employee to find his own disappeared brother-in-law.
- Documentary depicting day to day life in Angola Prison mostly from an inmate's perspective. Interviews are with several inmates including one with a life sentence who is about to die.
- 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.
- Møre than 40 filmmakers traveled the globe to witness religious celebrations and interview people from all sorts of backgrounds.
- Two Angola, the colonial and the contemporary, spaced 60 years, share the curse of a mysterious island. In the past, the epicenter of the tragedy is an evil fortress, tomb of revolutionaries deported from the mainland. In the present, the building of a luxurious resort awakens the relentless jaw of justice. Soon after, workmen lacerated dead bodies, begin to appear. The horror spreads rapidly. Pedro Mbala is sent to the island to solve the problem. His target is a pack of stray dogs.
- This documentary/ short film is about a young boy who lived most of his life and a refugee in East Africa and decided to make changes into his life by facing the true life
- A group of lawmen and convicts find themselves stuck between survivors of a zombie apocalypse and the bloodthirsty undead. Working together this unconventional group of survivors must put aside their differences or pay the ultimate price, become Prisoners of the Dead.
- A rogue director turns a run-of-the-mill Hollywood love story into a big band musical with the help of his crew and the out-of-the-loop actors.
- Documentary about the Portuguese language, and people who speak it around the world.
- 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.
- Using film and television footage taken during the revolutionary movement of April 25, 1974 in Portugal, and mixing it with music and live interviews with common people, the director conveys a vivid account of the period in which a military coup evolved to a socialist revolution, then was tempered into a formal european style democracy.
- 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.
- DEATH METAL ANGOLA follows a loving Angolan couple, Sonia and Wilker, whose love for death metal music is bringing hope to the town and children of Huambo, and Angola as a country. The devastating reality of Angola's history of wars, and civil unrest has left the country's people torn, broken, and starving for something to give them peace. Sonia, and Wilker's dream to put on the first national rock festival ignites the emotions of the Angolan people, and helps them heal from the war stricken path Angola has left behind. This engaging reality of Angola touches the heart of the viewer, and sheds new light on a music genre that is not well understood.
- A documentary that reveals the untold story of apartheid's fall, and the mysterious French businessman who was instrumental in Nelson Mandela's release from jail.
- 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.
- Cuban military personnel tell the story of the intervention of Cuba's armed forces on behalf of Angola's revolutionary government in the 1980s to defend it from attack by the pro-apartheid forces of South Africa.
- This production tells the story of Joana and Rodrigo meet for the first time at the University of Aveiro. They fall in love, unaware of the dark past that unites their families. Later, they discover that they are brothers causing their lives to never be the same again.
- A young man drifts through a post-disaster African landscape looking for his mother's ghost.
- 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.
- Rita Chiarelli's exploration of Louisiana's Angola Prison, its inmates and the blues music tradition they perform with her.
- Three couples search for connection and meaning in an angry, anxious, and polarized world. Uniquely combining a surreal narrative with hundreds of found footage clips, the film takes viewers on a journey through the sights and sounds of consumerism, advertising, and self-help culture. The result is a highly innovative remix film blending fiction and documentary while pushing the limits of Fair Use as rarely seen before.
- At the end of the nineteenth century, two inexperienced Portuguese colonizers, with a vague intention of civilizing the colonies, disembark in a remote part of the Congo River in order to coordinate a trading post. As time goes by, they become increasingly demoralized by their inability to profit from the ivory trade. A mutual feeling of distrust and misunderstadings with the locals isolate them at the heart of the tropical jungle. Faced with each other, they begin a journey towards the abyss.
- 'What kind of house does a man who has been imprisoned in a six-foot-by-nine-foot cell for over 30 years dream of?' This film captures the remarkable creative journey and friendship of Herman Wallace, one of the Angola 3, and artist Jackie Sumell while examining the injustice of prolonged solitary confinement.
- A story about the lives of four flight attendants, Patricia, Martha, Yara and Weza. It's a story about friendship, love, loyalty and family. The four friends are in search of their soul mates and their happy ever afters.
- Five dancers explore the concepts of tradition, culture, memory, and identity, questioning the transformation and deconstruction of these themes in their own lives.
- A group of ruthless mercenaries involved in a guerrilla war in Congo.
- In Luanda, one of the world's poorest and most dangerous places, three students from Angola's only music school work towards their end-of-year concert. The Music School is Angola's first and only school of its kind. It houses some 80 students, most of them desperately poor. Many face disapproval and outright rejection from their families who can't see a future in music. This film asks if, despite the ravages of 27 years of civil war, musical passion can overcome terrible hardships.
- 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.