Cape Verde Movies

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

From a forgotten photo of a group of clandestine Cape-Verdean guerrillas in the mountains of Cuba, Elson, a young filmmaker, searches for the...

The life and death of a wind pump, characteristic element of the agricultural landscape of the Cape Verde archipelago, which belongs to the arid zone...

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

Trapped in a cycle of colonial exploitation, our forgotten hero Blimundo braves the exhausted landscape of his island and finds a way to release...

Cape Verde has one of its greatest riches in the sea. Fresh fish is one of the greatest gastronomic delicacies.

“Land far away” is an expression typical of Cape Verdean emigration, which reveals the distance that emigrants feel in their...

A poetic and subtle journey immersed in the director's memories of her grandfather, and in the cycles of life.

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

The Volcano’s Last Wish, like most stories, is part fact, part fiction. It is part of cultural history and part cultural fable. Ultimately, it...

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

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...

The archipelago of Cape Verde and its society developed, throughout its ethnological formation, a mixture of cultures that transformed and recreated...

The Africologist is a futuristic documentary on African History, Science, and Technology. Director Val Lopes and the virtual character, the...