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SELECTED FILMS

These are the 115 selected films included in Lusophone Film Fest sessions worldwide.

(shown here in alphabetical order)

3x3

6

3x3

min

3x3

A night watchman spends time on a basketball court throwing balls. He has become an expert. He shows-off his abilities to a janitor who, like him, is also there all night. An award-winning comedy achieved without a single line of text.

Nuno Rocha

Portugal

2009

Passinho Dance Off

73

Passinho Dance Off

min

A Batalha do Passinho

The Passinho dance is the newest trend in Brazilians slums. A new way to dance baile funk but also a lifestyle, the Passinho fever is changing young boys' life around Brazil's outskirts. This documentary portrays this phenomena and discovers how the culture around the funk world has expanded beyond funk dance parties, DJs, and favelas.

Emílio Domingos

Brazil

2012

The Ball

5

The Ball

min

A Bola

An amusing look at condom use in Mozambique, where around 20 million condoms are distributed annually with a large number of them used by children to make football balls.

Orlando Mesquita

Mozambique

2001

The Colour of Dreams

14

The Colour of Dreams

min

A Côr dos Sonhos

A short film about dreams, in particular children living in a world fragmented by the economic crisis also affecting her parents. But, surprisingly, the community is not immune to the suffering of this child, materializing the dream in the real life, an event that will last in her memory.

João Pina

Mozambique/Portugal

2013

The Pregnancy is Ours

15

The Pregnancy is Ours

min

A Gravidez é Nossa

Four men in a rural Mozambican community who live in very different stages of life, from having their first girlfriend, expecting their first child, or being married for many years. However, they all have one thing in common: they want to change the traditional way in which contraception, pregnancy, childcare and housework are viewed by other men in their community.

David Aguacheiro & Tina Krüger

Mozambique

2019

Beatriz's War

105

Beatriz's War

min

A Guerra da Beatriz

The first fiction film to come out of Timor-Leste (East Timor), one of the newest nations in the World. 16 years after Beatriz's husband disappears during a brutal massacre by occupying forces, she is troubled by his mysterious return: is he the young man she had lost or is he an impostor?

Luigi Acquisto and Bety Reis

Timor-Leste

2013

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