Angola Movies

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...

Colonisation, like a forced and destructive transplant, leads to ruin, desolation, and the enslavement of fauna, flora, and humans.

"CATANAS POINT - A Surf Documentary" portrays the reality of the sport of surfing in Angola and compares it with what surfing was like in Brazil from...

After sharing with his best friend his suspicion that his own wife is cheating on him, a young man calls back hours later to dismiss his own account....

During the production of his album “Sobre Crianças, Quadris, Pesadelos e Lições de Casa”, rapper and activist...

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...

Enoch is born dazed from a bathtub in a workshop of automobiles, and gets lost in the streets in search of a heart.

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...

Deolinda Rodrigues Francisco de Almeida, whose war name was "Langidila," was one of the great Heroines who sacrificed her entire life for Angola....

The history and myth of a ghost island off the SW African coast are told through a dystopian parable, in which a character undergoes brainwashing to...

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

After accepting a mysterious box to deliver, a young man crosses the city feeling watched until he reaches the final destination and the mission...

The daily life of Luanda's orphans, the child soldiers who took part in Angola's war of independence. Now that their country has been liberated, they...

When Matias goes to deliver his dowry to his fiance's father, an unexpected accident makes him realize how much he is willing to fight for her love.

The Sun Still Shines is a documentary that presents a slice of the life of people who question their future when their only recourse is food aid. It...

Two meetings in 1978 with Kimbanda Kambia, a traditional healer in rural southern Angola. Kimbanda shows the place where he treats and prepares...

Set in the area surrounding the Angolan capital of Luanda, 'Liberdade' follows a young couple, Betty a seductive but domineering Chinese immigrant...