Cape Verde Movies

In Praia, Tempu, an introverted undertaker, mourns the death of his father while facing family pressure to sell their country home and leave Cabo...

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

The villages of ‘Chã das Caldeiras’ lie inside the caldera of the ‘Pico do Fogo’ volcano in Cabo Verde. After losing...

This documentary brings us closer to the harsh reality of a group of 300 women who live in Tarrafal, Santiago Island (Cape Verde). They have found a...

Chã das Caldeiras, at an altitude of 2000m, is a town within the caldera of the Fogo volcano, in Cape Verde. In the last eruption in 2015, the...

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

During the production of his album “Sobre Crianças, Quadris, Pesadelos e Lições de Casa”, rapper and activist...

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

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

From a forgotten photo of a group of clandestine Cape-Verdean guerrillas in the mountains of Cuba, Elson, a young filmmaker, searches for the...

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

The life and death of a wind pump, characteristic element of the agricultural landscape of the Cape Verde archipelago, which belongs to the arid zone...

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

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...

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

Recognized as Cape Verde's oldest performing batucadeira at 86 years old, Marina Vaz revisits her life in Cidade Velha, Cape Verde - from a childhood...

Cape Verde has one of its greatest riches in the sea. Fresh fish is one of the greatest gastronomic delicacies.