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SELECTED FILMS

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

(shown here in alphabetical order)

I'll see you when you get there

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

Journey to Cape Verde

17

Journey to Cape Verde

min

Viagem a Cabo Verde

On a sixty-day walking tour of Cape Verde, a traveler discovers the mountains, the villages, the people, the music - and an essential part of himself.

José Miguel Ribeiro

Portugal

2010

Virgin Margarida

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

The Kitchen

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

Where The Sun Rises

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

Women are Heroes

9

Women are Heroes

min

Women are Heroes

Brazilian trailer of Women are Heroes, documentary by artist JR paying tribute to women that play a vital role in our societies, through urban art projects focusing on their eyes.

JR

Brazil

2009

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