Country: Guinea-Bissau

Direction Flora Gomes

Cast Bia Gomes · Tunu Eugenio Almada · Mamadu Uri Balde · Pedro da Silva

Direction João Viana

Cast Fatu Djebaté · Mutar Djebeté · Mamadou Baio

Plot Fatu’s father has returned home to Guinea-Bissau from Portugal to attend her wedding. The young woman teaches at the university and her future husband is a well-known musician. Their wedding...

Direction Sana Na N'Hada

Cast Jacquelina Camara · Etelvina Gomes · Aful Macka · Saene Nanque

Plot The story of two brothers who must make a choice. Set in a rural village at the beginning of the liberation war against the Portuguese in Ginea Bissau, "Xime" exposes...

Direction Paulo Carneiro

Cast Antonio Pedro Figueiredo · Mamadu Baio · Paulo Carneiro · Carlos Figueira

Direction Flora Gomes

Cast Dulcenia Bidjanque · Djuco Bodjan · Dadu Cisse · Edna Evora

Plot Set in the forest village of Amanha Lundju in Guinea Bissau, a magical tale of ritual and folklore surrounding one community's tradition which requires that each villager's birth is celebrated...

Direction Piero Nelli

Direction Iara Lee

Cast Adja Djenabu Balde · Cherno Talato Jalo · Ermelinda Pedro Mendonça · Imam Malam Djassida

Plot In the West African nation of Guinea-Bissau, this thought-provoking film takes you on a journey that follows brave local women who challenge patriarchy by building institutions that promote self-sufficiency through...

Direction Geraldo Pina

Direction Flora Gomes

Cast Maysa Marta · Antonio Simao Mendes · Jacquelina Camara · Manuel Dias Sequeira

Plot 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 independence. Vicente is unaware of...

Direction Sana Na N'Hada

Cast Marcelino António Ingira · Binete Undonque · Marta Dabo · Abubacar Banor

Plot Guinea-Bissau, 1969. A violent war between the Portuguese colonial army and the guerrillas of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde. Nome leaves his village and...

Direction Sarah Maldoror