Cape Verde Movies

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A brief moment of two Mindelo families during Christmas.

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

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

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

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

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...