Cape Verde Movies

On a remote volcanic island that everybody wants to leave, little Nana learns to stay. Her mother, Nia, went into exile right after she was born and...

The villages of ‘Chã das Caldeiras’ lie inside the caldera of the ‘Pico do Fogo’ volcano in Cabo Verde. After losing...

Recording a 24-hour period throughout every country in the world, we explore a greater diversity of perspectives than ever seen before on screen. We...

Vita, a young and beautiful African woman learns that finding love and happiness need not come at the sacrifice of one's identity.

A Cape Verdean woman navigates her way through Lisbon, following the scanty physical traces her deceased husband left behind and discovering his...

When Malagasy soldiers came back from WWII, they expected De Gaulle to give them independence for fighting along with France against Nazis. Instead,...

Documentary about Cape Verde and the island of Fogo produced by the revolutionary government of the new country. A culture learning to live without...

The story of a father and his son, with Tabanka as a backdrop.

Pedro Costa's segment from "O Estado do Mundo".

Quirino, 77, has lived for more than 30 years in an abandoned village, at the bottom of a deep valley, between the sea and the mountains. Feeling the...

Young Gabriel worries about forgetting his late father’s face; Isabel, a single mother, frets about her son and how she will make ends meet;...

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

Orlando Pantera (1967-2001) was a gifted Cape Verdean musician who died at 33 before releasing his solo album. This film revives his legacy through...

Mindelo is the cultural capital of Cape Verde. Over the years, generations of writers, painters, singers and intellectuals have been the ultimate...

A book is buried under a mango tree in a backyard in Cape Verde, initiating a journey to reconstruct a fictional, geographic, emotional, and...

Intimate portrait of Dona Mónica, one of the first transgender people from Santiago Island, Cape Verde.

A young woman wakes up at night with an overwhelming sense of imminent death, later realising it isn't the night of her death but the beginning of...

With a dance performance, a mother and daughter point out the destruction of the environment. They tell how they survive selling beach sand, knowing...

This documentary brings us closer to the harsh reality of a group of 300 women who live in Tarrafal, Santiago Island (Cape Verde). They have found a...

In Praia, Tempu, an introverted undertaker, mourns the death of his father while facing family pressure to sell their country home and leave Cabo...