Angola Movies

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

As the summer of 1980 ends, 16 and 17 year old sisters Maria and Alda flee to Lisbon from Angola?s civil war. In the hands of fate, they must learn...

Two brothers — one a narcotics agent and the other a general — finally discover the identity of the drug lord who murdered their parents...

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

Domingos is a member of an African liberation movement, arrested by the Portuguese secret police, after bloody events in Angola. His wife goes from a...

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

In 2015, a group of Angolan artists decided to occupy the spaces of the vacant Globo Hotel in downtown Luanda and transform them into unique...

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

Guinea-Bissau, 1969. A violent war between the Portuguese colonial army and the guerrillas of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea. Nome...

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

Stopped at a traffic light in Maianga, Luanda, a man drifts into his inner world to the sound of ‘Planos’. Between reality and dream, he...

In 1974, after years of civil war, the Portuguese and their descendants fled the colony of Angola where groups working for independence gradually...

A group of children, fleeing the war, is taken to Luanda accompanied by a nun. When they reach the aeroplane, 12-year-old N'Dala decides to leave the...

Haunted by questions of disappearance, loss, and revolutionary struggle, An Impossible Address continues Sanzgiri’s examination of the life of...

Father and son are in a long journey to the city. The road they are on is not on any map. It doesn't end.

Footage of the investigation documentary telling about the extermination of African elephants lasted almost three years. The film crew traveled...

One day, air conditioners in the Angolan capital Luanda start to mysteriously fall from buildings. When security guard Matacedo is told to get his...

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...

In the 17th century a warrior woman fights for the independence of Angola. After witnessing the murder of her son and watching her people being...

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...