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| Lusophone African Films |
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AFRICA DREAMING
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| DVD, 104 minutes, 4 titles, 26 minutes each on 1 cassette, South Africa / Mozambique / Namibia / Senegal / Tunisia, 1997, in Arabic, French, Nama, Portuguese and Wolof with English subtitles |
| An anthology of four dramatic shorts that explore the theme of love in Africa. MORE... |
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FINTAR O DESTINO
(Dribbling Fate)
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| DVD and and 35mm, 77 minutes, Portugal / Cape Verde, 1998, in Criolo and Portuguese with English subtitles |
| A feature film about soccer dreams weighs the pros and cons of pursuing ambitions abroad or acceptance of life on the isolated islands of Cape Verde. MORE... |
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THE HERO
(O HEROI)
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| DVD and and 35mm, 97 Minutes, Angola, 2005, In Portuguese with English subtitles |
Winner, best foreign feature, the 2005 Sundance Film Festival
The Hero (O Herói) tells the story of Angola, a nation attempting to reconstruct itself after 40 continual years of anti-colonial and civil warfare, through the story of a veteran who has lost his leg, a prostitute who has lost a child and an orphaned boy. MORE... |
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MORTU NEGA
(Those Whom Death Refused)
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| DVD and and 35mm, 93 minutes, Guinea Bissau, 1988, in Criolo with English subtitles |
| This fictional account of the closing months of the war against the Portuguese and the consolidation of the independent West African nation of Guinea-Bissau both reflects and critiques the revolutionary process. MORE... |
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UDJU AZUL DI YONTA
(The Blue Eyes of Yonta)
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| DVD and and 35mm, 90 minutes, Guinea-Bissau, 1991, in Criolo with English subtitles |
| Four characters struggle with the disillusionment of the revolutionary generation in post-independence Guinea-Bissau. MORE... |
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