Angola Movies

"CATANAS POINT - A Surf Documentary" portrays the reality of the sport of surfing in Angola and compares it with what surfing was like in Brazil from...

The Angolan Civil War still casts its shadow across the life of a young widow. The camera wanders through the rooms in her house, recording everyday...

In 1974, after years of civil war, the Portuguese and their descendants fled the colony of Angola where groups working for independence gradually...

The daily life of Luanda's orphans, the child soldiers who took part in Angola's war of independence. Now that their country has been liberated, they...

Deolinda Rodrigues Francisco de Almeida, whose war name was "Langidila," was one of the great Heroines who sacrificed her entire life for Angola....

The story of King and Talibam, two poor and unemployedbrothers from Luanda who, wanting to change their lives, decide to become robbers.

In 2015, a group of Angolan artists decided to occupy the spaces of the vacant Globo Hotel in downtown Luanda and transform them into unique...

Haunted by questions of disappearance, loss, and revolutionary struggle, An Impossible Address continues Sanzgiri’s examination of the life of...

One day, air conditioners in the Angolan capital Luanda start to mysteriously fall from buildings. When security guard Matacedo is told to get his...

After accepting a mysterious box to deliver, a young man crosses the city feeling watched until he reaches the final destination and the mission...

The history and myth of a ghost island off the SW African coast are told through a dystopian parable, in which a character undergoes brainwashing to...

After sharing with his best friend his suspicion that his own wife is cheating on him, a young man calls back hours later to dismiss his own account....

It is a monochromatic experimental film that uses the language of colors to represent a powerful cycle of problematic situations in Luanda through...

Humberto Paulo is a brave young Angolan and survivor of several wars, including the Angolan armed conflict and polio. After his adolescence he...

Vanda, a woman of rigid routines, navigates through her solitude while observing Luanda and its inhabitants. Her life is divided between work and...

In the slums of Palanca, in Luanda, the charismatic world of the sapeurs becomes the stage for an elaborate con, where elegance is an art and...

1978 Angolan documentary

The Sun Still Shines is a documentary that presents a slice of the life of people who question their future when their only recourse is food aid. It...

Five dancers explore the concepts of tradition, culture, memory, and identity, questioning the transformation and deconstruction of these themes in...