SELECTED FILMS

A group of women in Rio revisit their past as pioneers of Brazil’s first women’s national football team, formed when the sport was banned for women. Through memory and reunion, the film explores resistance, invisibility, and the rewriting of history.

People who over generations have been influenced, converted, submitted, displaced, and assimilated by the Portuguese, how do they live, think, remember, dream and resist today?

Four personal testimonies about human rights violations filmed in the months prior to the Santa Cruz Massacre, Avô Crocodilo is a documentary about the power of images, 25 years after the tragic events in Timor-Leste. Part of the work of the journalist, who managed to put that territory back on the agenda, is revisited cinematically. Blood stories that shaped the dream of a country, today in peace.

Bab Sebta means in arabic the door of Ceuta and it is the narrow passage in the frontier between Marocco and Ceuta. It is the last obstacle that face those who came from all over Africa to arrive to Europe. The film Bab Sebta visits four cities, looking for the rituals of the awaiting and the voices of those travelers. Winner of the Prix Espérance at FID Marseille 2008 and Best Portuguese Documentary at DocLisboa 2008.

The African continent has always been a place that evokes a deep sense of wonder and fantasy. It is naturally diverse, with a vast array of people, cultures, and natural beauty. Being the home to ancient civilizations, it is considered the "birthplace of humanity" or "the Motherland". But could it also be the birthplace of style? Africans and their cultures are inspiring the aesthetic world today more than ever. From the runways of the world to the meccas of visual art, there is an undeniable presence of African Influence and a growing number of African trendsetters. Bangaologia sets out to explore the reason behind the recent growth of the African Aesthetic in the world.

In 1907, a Portuguese doctor on a tropical island struggles to treat enslaved people suffering from Banzo, a fatal homesickness, while grappling with the deeper spiritual trauma they endure.