Cape Verde Movies

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

A brief moment of two Mindelo families during Christmas.

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

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...