Angola Movies

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...

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...

An Afro-Portuguese pair navigates through the ropes of their unresolved love affair and their Black Portuguese identity.

Enoch is born dazed from a bathtub in a workshop of automobiles, and gets lost in the streets in search of a heart.

A being that has only bodily existence, an object used to satisfy needs and desires. On the screen, Lúcia preserves only a distant look that...

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

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

Stopped at a traffic light in Maianga, Luanda, a man drifts into his inner world to the sound of ‘Planos’. Between reality and dream, he...

Set in the area surrounding the Angolan capital of Luanda, 'Liberdade' follows a young couple, Betty a seductive but domineering Chinese immigrant...

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

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....

Two meetings in 1978 with Kimbanda Kambia, a traditional healer in rural southern Angola. Kimbanda shows the place where he treats and prepares...

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...

Portrait of the children born while the war was still going on and members of the Pioneers, MPLA’s youth organisation. As the title predicts,...

50 Kwanzas follows Tchicolassonhi, a ‘Zungueira’ (in Angola, the term for female street vendors), in her daily struggle for better...

Colonisation, like a forced and destructive transplant, leads to ruin, desolation, and the enslavement of fauna, flora, and humans.