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Guinea-Bissau, 1969. A violent war between the Portuguese colonial army and the guerrillas of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde. Nome leaves his village and joins the Maquis resistance group. After years, he will return as a hero, but joy will soon give way to bitterness and cynicism.

During the independence war, a woman searches nationwide for her resistant husband. After finding and saving him, they must rebuild their relationship and life together in their ravaged country.

As in the original paradise, the inhabitants of the Bissagos archipelago, located in the west coast of Africa, live according to ancient traditions and in absolute respect for nature, until a gang of drug dealers occupies their sacred islands. The medicine man dies and everything seems lost, until his young successor decides to fight the invaders to save the village.

SINOPSE Beware those who leave unresolved issues with the dead. Prosecuting Attorney David Lunga's success is overshadowed by the terrifying secrets of Rosa, a beautiful but mysterious woman with whom he falls in love. What mysteries does she hide? As the macabre facts unravel, David comes face to face with his own demons and is driven to prove his innocence, recover his reputation and, above all, clear his own conscience.

Between May and June 2019 I was in Guinea-Bissau for the first time, after leaving in 1991 on my way to Lisbon when I was only 3 years old. My return to the motherland was special, profound and very cosmic. On this return, already 31 years old, I ventured into Cabral and Okinka Pampa lands. Cacheu Cuntum has in image what neither distance nor time have allowed us to understand about the perception that the Guinean-Bissauan people have about their past. The film proposes an audiovisual experience, visual or even just sonorous, of what are the various dimensions that comprise the genetics of the construction of the historical truth as opposed to the reality of the facts, which in turn should humanize and expiate those who have always been represented in place of the oppressed.

A filmmaker follows an invisible missionary as he wanders between villages in Guinea-Bissau, witnessing the country's chaotic operational impasse, which in turn is fixed by the people's determination to win through labour. With images filmed with a mobile phone device in the cities of Lagos (Nigeria), Berlin, Lisbon, São Tomé Island and Guinea-Bissau, in Contemplation Deadlock Attempt I glimpse a cynically commented immersive character trait. I'm interested in better understanding the layers of Bissau-Guinean society, but showing that my body in transit - or, on the move - is also an archival body that documents the world without evading itself from it.

In Bafatá, Guiné-Bissau, Canjajá Mané, an old cinema operator and guard of the city club, repeats the same routine for 50 years. But nowadays the cinema is closed and there are no viewers.

A documentary short that focuses on how the inhabitants of Guinea-Bissau view their black identity and culture, with the annual Carnival celebration as a backdrop.

'Calling Cabral' is shaped by Guinean mysticism, the poetics of simultaneity, and the voice of resistance and reflection in Amílcar Cabral. Between the hustle and bustle of a New Year's Eve spent in the Bijagó Islands, and the discovery of a feeling that is renewed with the reunion of people and places, 'Calling Cabral' penetrates the layers of language and behaviour, to celebrate the historical and intergenerational complexity that inhabits Guinea-Bissau.

Bejo, 12 years old, lives with his brother Mario, a sculptor. Having heard the news on the radio his dream is to see the Bissau carnival, but he has been forbidden to do so. He escapes, wanders throught the forest, crosses rice fields until the river next to the city. His brother will look for him during the carnival...

A photographer and a director go to a popular neighbourhood in Bissau. Not only do they discover a neighbourhood built with the resources of each family, but they are also surprised by the existence of an inventor of ecological generators.