Guinea-Bissau Movies

  • 2024
    Nome

    Nome

    Nome

    7.22024HD

    Guinea-Bissau, 1969. A violent war between the Portuguese colonial army and the guerrillas of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea. Nome...

    Nome
  • 2010
    Hepicat

    Hepicat

    Hepicat

    102010HD

    A film about the incommunicability of two worlds.

    Hepicat
  • 2012
    One Day on Earth

    One Day on Earth

    One Day on Earth

    7.12012HD

    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...

    One Day on Earth
  • 1992
    The Blue Eyes of Yonta

    The Blue Eyes of Yonta

    The Blue Eyes of Yonta

    6.81992HD

    A beautiful, intelligent and flirtatious young girl, Yonta, is secretly in love with a friend of her parents, Vicente, a hero of the war of...

    The Blue Eyes of Yonta
  • 2024
    Resonance Spiral

    Resonance Spiral

    Resonance Spiral

    02024HD

    The Mediateca Onshore in Malafo, a village in Guinea-Bissau, is an archive and a club for agropoetic practices. As Amílcar Cabral talks...

    Resonance Spiral
  • 1979
    O Torneio Amilcar Cabral

    O Torneio Amilcar Cabral

    O Torneio Amilcar Cabral

    51979HD

    O Torneio Amilcar Cabral
  • 1988
    Those Whom Death Refused

    Those Whom Death Refused

    Those Whom Death Refused

    7.21988HD

    The story of a woman who searches through the country for her husband, a resistant, while the war for independence is raging. She finds him at last...

    Those Whom Death Refused
  • 2024
    Angular Phoenix

    Angular Phoenix

    Angular Phoenix

    02024HD

    Proposes a speculative meeting between the Baron of Água Izé, the first nobleman in the Portuguese colonies of the 1800s who was of...

    Angular Phoenix
  • 2022
    Calling Cabral

    Calling Cabral

    Calling Cabral

    02022HD

    Shaped by mysticism, resistance, and the voice of revolutionary leader Amílcar Cabral, we take a personal and poetic journey through the...

    Calling Cabral
  • 2014
    Regulado

    Regulado

    Regulado

    02014HD

    Filipa César, in her films and installations, explores the post-colonial constellations that were spawned by the recent history of Portugal....

    Regulado
  • 1984
    Fanado

    Fanado

    Fanado

    01984HD

    This film documents the festivities and different stages of an initiation ritual of a Balanta community in Guinea Bissau. The filmmaker Sana na...

    Fanado
  • 2018
    Our Madness

    Our Madness

    Our Madness

    6.22018HD

    Ernania is hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital in Mozambique. She dreams about her little son, Hanic, and her husband, Pak, who is a soldier of...

    Our Madness
  • 2015
    Transmission from the Liberated Zones

    Transmission from the Liberated Zones

    Transmission from the Liberated Zones

    02015HD

    The Portuguese colonial past is actualized through performance.

    Transmission from the Liberated Zones
  • 2012
    Conakry

    Conakry

    Conakry

    02012HD

    "Conakry" is a homage to the Guinean-Bissauan and Cape Verdean anti-colonial leader Amílcar Cabral. This poetic film is a single shot 16mm...

    Conakry
  • 1966
    Nossa Terra

    Nossa Terra

    Nossa Terra

    01966HD

    Nossa Terra is a combat film, an urgent film, shot during the guerilla warfare surrounding Guinea-Bissau’s struggle for independence in the...

    Nossa Terra
  • 2022
    Mangrove School

    Mangrove School

    Mangrove School

    62022HD

    We went to research the conditions of the students in the guerrilla schools in the mangroves. Instead, we soon became ourselves the learners and the...

    Mangrove School
  • 2012
    Cacheu

    Cacheu

    Cacheu

    02012HD

    In Cacheu, Filipa César once again applies the economic technique of using a single shot – letting a 16mm film roll to the end –...

    Cacheu
  • 2011
    The Embassy

    The Embassy

    The Embassy

    02011HD

    In The Embassy, Filipa César takes an old album of colonial photos showing landscapes, people, architecture and monuments in Guinea-Bissau in...

    The Embassy
  • 1980
    Un balcon en Afrique

    Un balcon en Afrique

    Un balcon en Afrique

    01980HD

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    Un balcon en Afrique