Cape Verde Movies

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 N...

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

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

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 f...

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

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

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

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 her...

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

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...

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

The Volcano’s Last Wish, like most stories, is part fact, part fiction. It is part of cultural history and part cultural fable. Ultimately, it is a ho...

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

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

A poetic and subtle journey immersed in the director's memories of her grandfather, and in the cycles of life.

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

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

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