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...

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

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

Tchinda is one of most beloved women in Cape Verde, especially after she came out as a transgender person in the local newspaper in 1998. Since then,...

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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