SELECTED FILMS
These are the 115 selected films included in Lusophone Film Fest sessions worldwide.
(shown here in alphabetical order)
15
I'll see you when you get there
min
Vejo-te Quando Lá Chegares
Baldo waits for a call by a public phone booth, perhaps the most important call of his life. Xavier needs to use that phone to save someone else's life. These two conflicting interests will have them clash and define both their futures for ever.
Filipe Henriques
Guinea-Bissau
2005
90
Virgin Margarida
min
Virgem Margarida
Newly independent Mozambique, 1975. The revolutionary government, wishing to eradicate all traces of colonialism, rounds up prostitutes and sends them to a reeducation camp in an isolated forest. There, they are to be transformed into the new women of the new country. In the process, a 14-year-old virgin named Margarida is taken by mistake. This is her story.
Licínio Azevedo
Mozambique
2012
30
The Kitchen
min
Vou Mudar a Cozinha
Blending fiction and reflection, the film follows a character navigating everyday life while confronting personal and social transformation. With a poetic and intimate tone, it explores domestic space as a site of change, identity, and quiet resistance.
Ondjaki
Angola
2022
80
Where The Sun Rises
min
Where The Sun Rises
The President of East Timor (Timor-Leste), Xanana Gusmao, takes us on a breathtaking and intimate journey. Revelations from the 24-year Resistance against Indonesian occupation, to the present-day challenges of the world's youngest nation.
Louis Papachristou
Timor-Leste
2006





