01 Jan 2013
Cap-Vert, l'archipel créole
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This 16mm short film undertakes a journey from slavery to ‘Morabeza’, a multi-faceted word that describes Cape Verde’s gentle spirit. Allow yourself be guided to discover the diversity and beauty of this South African country.
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01 Jan 2013
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27 Nov 2015
The Other Side of the Atlantic is a documentary that builts a bridge in the ocean that separates Brazil and Africa. The film tackles the cultural exchanges, the imaginary created through the mirroring, the prejudice and dreams built in both sides of the atlantic through the life stories of the students of african countries in transit through Brazil.
26 Jan 2006
The untold tragedy and scandal of what happened to a vibrant community of immigrants from the Cape Verde Islands in the Fox Point section of Providence, Rhode Island who were forcibly displaced by urban renewal to make way for fancy coffee shops, antique stores and elegantly restored houses. Poignant, heartfelt and warm, in a timeless snapshot SKFPR captures the essence, spirit and heart of a community whose history was erased before it was written.
01 Jan 2000
Documentary about African freedom fighter Amílcar Cabral, whose story is told by his relatives and friends. Amílcar, besides being a humanist and nationalist, was also a brilliant poet.
01 Feb 2010
This film explores aspects of the African Diaspora, history and culture that are not widely known or are normally overlooked in mainstream, popular and scholarly discourse. It tells the compelling story of two African countries(Cape Verde and Sao Tome & Principe) forever linked by a history of poverty and slavery, and two people forever linked by the unbreakable bond of family and love
25 May 2007
Praia, Cape Verde. Laura, Flavia and Bela are childhood friends. Each leads her own life and they sometimes meet to dance, dine and have fun. But one day the calm rivers of their lives break their banks and become wild torrents: Ricardo, Flavia's husband, rapes his pupil Indira, Laura's 13-year old eldest daughter. A film that takes a critical look at the lives of women in Cape Verde.
09 Jul 1999
Cape Verde, 1964. At the feet of a mighty volcano, the traditional Cape Verdean society is undergoing a steady change. The old land-owning aristocracy is disintegrating. A class of "mulattos" begins to emerge, with a trade-based financial power that threatens the landlords. A new identity arises, a mix of old and new, of African and Portuguese culture, sensual and dynamic. The songs of Cesária Évora follow this inevitable transformation. From the novel by Henrique Teixeira de Sousa.
10 Feb 1995
The film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker in a comatose sleep on his trip home to Cape Verde. The devoted Portuguese nurse took a journey only to find herself lost in abstract drama.
16 Feb 2025
Follow the story of one family's contribution to the history that ties Cape Verdean immigrants to the cranberry industry in southern Massachusetts.
01 Jan 1987
Film adaptation of a novel published in 1960 by Cape Verdean author Manuel Lopes.
22 Oct 2019
Started in 2018, the project – comprised of 11 segments by filmmakers from all around the world – reflects on the intertwined relationship between human society and nature that is aggravated by climate change on multiple scales, hinting at possible solutions.
20 Nov 2020
Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx formed one of the most famous duos in world history. In contrast to Marx, however, Engels seems to have fallen into oblivion today. Unjustly so. Moving archive images, documentary footage and graphic novels lead us back to the time of Friedrich Engels, who shaped the Communist movement like no other.
09 Dec 2020
The story of Pentecostal minister Glenn Summerford — a man accused of attempting to murder his wife with a rattlesnake in the sleepy town of Scottsboro, Alabama — and the investigation and trial that haunted Southern Appalachia for decades.
29 Oct 2020
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01 Jan 2011
They say that the average Earthling spends about 10 years of his life at the TV screen. It is pointless to ask whether these are lost years - without television, it is impossible to imagine our civilization, although not 100 years have passed since its invention. "Iconoscope" is a chance to cover the entire vast history of television in 100 minutes of exciting and paradoxical spectacle.
08 Sep 2020
Behind the scenes of the creation of Kelly Reichardt's First Cow (2019).
09 Nov 2020
"Were the inhabitants of the ancient Americas a completely different species? When experts were shown examples of skulls found throughout the Paracas region of Peru, they said… “This has to be genetic…” “We don’t have that in our features…” “You can’t push that back in anatomy. You can’t do any kind of head manipulation to do that…” “Because of the way the cervical spine would sit, their jaw would be on their chest unless their neck were a bit longer…” “I came to the conclusion that this cannot be a human being. It has to be something else.” “We’re looking at a whole different species…” As if the unusual physical features identified in the skulls were not enough, when detailed DNA analysis was conducted on these skulls the astonishing results showed these people were tied directly to the Middle East! What were Middle Eastern people doing in the Paracas region thousands of years ago?"...
11 Jan 1976
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09 Mar 2014
You've never heard of Jonathan Hoefler or Tobias Frere-Jones but you've seen their work. They run the most successful and respected type design studio in the world, making fonts used by the Wall Street Journal to the President of the United States.
24 Apr 2013
A Russian boy gets a heart transplant in Italy. A lot of people were by his side on his long journey full of hardships, except for his mother.