Cape Verde Movies

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

the mobile phone of Alain, a belgium director in his fifties, appears a mysterious picture. Enough time to recognise Luisa, the portuguese actress he...

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

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...

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...

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

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,...

Mauro lives on the sidelines in Naples, but his heart flies off afar, to Mindelo, his homeland, to a Carnival which is a dream, promise and return....

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

Gabriela and Joseph's summer romance was short but intense. Since Joseph was in film school at the time, he couldn't commit, and Gabriela decided to...

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

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

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

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...

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;...

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

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...

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

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