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- Guinea-Bissau, 1969. A violent war between the Portuguese colonial army and the guerrillas of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde. Nome leaves his village and joins the Maquis resistance group. After years, he will return as a hero, but joy will soon give way to bitterness and cynicism.
- 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.
- When a chinese merchant brings to a neighbourhood of Luanda a peculiar holy plastic figure of Our Lady, a mourning mother will seek peace, a committed barber starts a new cult and a stray kid will look for revenge for his lost friend.
- 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.
- 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.
- The documentary takes us on a journey through the love of two women from different cultures. Paulina, an Angolan from Bentiaba who knows Johnny, a Chinese citizen who came to Angola to build a road that is about to end, and who leaves Paulina with two children and the hope of August finally arriving. And that of Sofia, who arrives in Angola with her husband Inácio, a former Angolan scholarship student in China. The left China, leaving behind their only child. Immersed in a different culture, with her name "adapted" for easier pronunciation, "Sofia" tries to understand if the change did not separate it too much of herself. The two women share the courage and dare to change their destiny and break cultural barriers for happiness. The first step was taken. The future is unknown.
- Welcome to Angola, home of heavy electro music known as kuduro. Follow us across the pulsating city of Luanda as we delve into the kuduro evolution and meet the people charting its course. 'Afripedia Angola' portrays a city bursting of creativity and discovers the capital from an alternative viewpoint. Get swept away by a line-up of emerging talents such as transexual superstar Titica, wordsmith genius artist Nástio Mosquito, producer MC Sacerdote and more.
- Five dancers explore the concepts of tradition, culture, memory, and identity, questioning the transformation and deconstruction of these themes in their own lives.
- With its title taken from Agostinho Neto's 1960's poem, the piece echoes the call for a return to the resources and cultural traditions of Angola, while it draws differences between these and the conceptions of nature and development introduced in Africa by Portuguese and Chinese peoples.
- What seemed to be a return trip to my country at a time of changes, ends as a trip into my self between contradictions and questionings about my identity as a Cuban.
- Music critic Jesus, is making a name for his radio show 'Ear of the beholder', while dealing with a complex multi-genre love . As Jesus's story unravels in present tense, past stories of love and music are revisited by unique storytellers.
- In the summer of '99, best friends Hugo and Naomi test the limits of their relationship to tragic effect.