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- A Cape Verdean woman navigates her way through Lisbon, following the scanty physical traces her deceased husband left behind and discovering his secret, illicit life.
- The story of a woman who searches through the country for her husband, a resistant, while the war for independence is raging. She finds him at last and saves his life. When peace finally arrives, they have to learn how to be together again and start living in a destroyed land.
- Unal is a village of rice producers whose inhabitants played a crucial role in Guinea-Bissau's liberation struggle against Portuguese colonialism. They were the first to engage in the armed uprising, mobilizing their ancestral spirits, the Irãs - the natural land-owners to whom they pay reverence - into the guerilla. Still today, every gesture of the rice cycle - from plowing to harvesting - is haunted by memories of the war. A trauma that is also inscribed in their present- day rituals, bodies, landscapes, and techno music. In the war's aftermath, a group of soldiers got possessed by a messianic vision, "The Shadow", that gave them the power to foresee the future and heal their communities with bush plants through talismanic writings.
- Done in the style of an African folk tale, this film, a collaboration between European and African countries, is said to be among the most elaborate, high tech film in African film. Exquisitely photographed and filled with archetypal figures to create a poetic look at nature's revenge against those who would exploit her. It is set in the forest village of Amanha Lundju, a place where the birth of children is celebrated by the planting of a tree. The trees are considered spiritual twins. But for every tree planted, the rapacious state destroys many more for firewood and lumber.
- Bejo, 12 years old, lives with his brother Mario, a sculptor. Having heard the news on the radio his dream is to see the Bissau carnival, but he has been forbidden to do so. He escapes, wanders throught the forest, crosses rice fields until the river next to the city. His brother will look for him during the carnival...
- In Lisbon, on a cargo ship, we will undertake an Atlantic route that re-enacts these daily travels, in order to highlight the physical and social transformations in the landscape that these exchanges produce.
- In 1984 a group of young Cape Verdeans influenced by the spirit of the Woodstock festival decided to create the 'Baia das Gatas' festival on the island of San Vicente, Cape Verde. What they could not imagine is that 30 years later this festival would be a reference to the island and one of the most important annual events in the country. Its music brings echoes of an invented people.