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- A career bank robber breaks out of jail, and shares a moment of mutual attraction with a U.S. Marshal he has kidnapped.
- After a family tragedy, a racist prison guard re-examines his attitudes while falling in love with the African-American wife of the last prisoner he executed.
- A nun, while comforting a convicted killer on death row, empathizes with both the killer and his victim's families.
- Filmed over nearly five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on seventy-millimetre film, Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes, and natural wonders.
- After being double crossed and thrown in jail, a deformed gangster gets a new face and rehabilitation, but his desire for revenge looms.
- The cruel acts of animal poaching and violence, executions, and tribal slaughtering, all taking place on the African continent.
- A gripping story of a three-month-long journey that renowned Polish reporter Ryszard Kapuscinski took across Angola, ravaged by a war in which the front lines shifted like a kaleidoscope, from one day to the next.
- A modern day musical reimagining of the beloved Charles Dickens classic, "A Christmas Carol".
- A story of the almost impossible love between Luís Miguel and Mara, set in Lisbon and Luanda. The relationship of Luís and Mara will be affected with the conspiracies and secrets of their friends and family, either in Portugal or Angola, as the lives of each character is changed by those same conspiracies and secrets.
- A man escapes from a Louisiana prison to be at the California hospital bedside of his ailing son.
- Angola. Three generations of women in a 25-year-long civil war: Lelena (the grandmother), Nayola (the daughter) and Yara (the granddaughter). Past and present interlace. Nayola goes in search of her missing husband at the height of the war. Decades later, the country is finally at peace but Nayola has not returned. Yara has become a rebellious teenager and a subversive rap singer. Lelena tries to contain her for fear of the police coming to arrest her. One night, a masked intruder breaks into their house, armed with a machete. An encounter like nothing they could have imagined.
- A passionate conservation biologist brings together a river bushman fearful of losing his past and a young scientist uncertain of her future on an epic, four-month expedition across three countries, through unexplored and dangerous landscapes, in order to save the Okavango Delta, one of our planet's last pristine wildernesses.
- Beauty, seduction, betrayal and the ultimate struggle for power play out in an Angolan lifestyle magazine house.
- Two cops, two brothers. One is out for justice, the other revenge. They may kill each other before capturing the bad guys.
- Documentary depicting day to day life in Angola Prison mostly from an inmate's perspective. Interviews are with several inmates including one with a life sentence who is about to die.
- When the air-conditioners mysteriously start to fall in city of Luanda, Matacedo (security guard) and Zezinha (housemaid) have the mission of retrieving their boss's ac.
- Using film and television footage taken during the revolutionary movement of April 25, 1974 in Portugal, and mixing it with music and live interviews with common people, the director conveys a vivid account of the period in which a military coup evolved to a socialist revolution, then was tempered into a formal european style democracy.
- Two Angola, the colonial and the contemporary, spaced 60 years, share the curse of a mysterious island. In the past, the epicenter of the tragedy is an evil fortress, tomb of revolutionaries deported from the mainland. In the present, the building of a luxurious resort awakens the relentless jaw of justice. Soon after, workmen lacerated dead bodies, begin to appear. The horror spreads rapidly. Pedro Mbala is sent to the island to solve the problem. His target is a pack of stray dogs.
- A pompous, adventure-seeking businessman journeys through Africa with a clumsy employee to find his own disappeared brother-in-law.
- A group of lawmen and convicts find themselves stuck between survivors of a zombie apocalypse and the bloodthirsty undead. Working together this unconventional group of survivors must put aside their differences or pay the ultimate price, become Prisoners of the Dead.
- This documentary/ short film is about a young boy who lived most of his life and a refugee in East Africa and decided to make changes into his life by facing the true life
- At the end of the nineteenth century, two inexperienced Portuguese colonizers, with a vague intention of civilizing the colonies, disembark in a remote part of the Congo River in order to coordinate a trading post. As time goes by, they become increasingly demoralized by their inability to profit from the ivory trade. A mutual feeling of distrust and misunderstadings with the locals isolate them at the heart of the tropical jungle. Faced with each other, they begin a journey towards the abyss.
- A young man drifts through a post-disaster African landscape looking for his mother's ghost.
- A rogue director turns a run-of-the-mill Hollywood love story into a big band musical with the help of his crew and the out-of-the-loop actors.
- A story about the lives of four flight attendants, Patricia, Martha, Yara and Weza. It's a story about friendship, love, loyalty and family. The four friends are in search of their soul mates and their happy ever afters.
- A 20-year veteran of the Angolan civil war returns to the capital city of Luanda where he faces the challenges of assimilation and survival.
- Møre than 40 filmmakers traveled the globe to witness religious celebrations and interview people from all sorts of backgrounds.
- Army times in South West Africa.
- Film Producer and Director, Ne Kunda Nlaba, a descendant of the Kingdom of Kongo and his team take on a journey in search this once great African Empire also known as Kongo Dia Ntotila.
- A documentary that reveals the untold story of apartheid's fall, and the mysterious French businessman who was instrumental in Nelson Mandela's release from jail.
- This production tells the story of Joana and Rodrigo meet for the first time at the University of Aveiro. They fall in love, unaware of the dark past that unites their families. Later, they discover that they are brothers causing their lives to never be the same again.
- Thirty-five years ago Matias Santana was only six when he witnesses the brutal murder of his parents, with his unborn brother, Dias, still in his mother's womb. Flash forward and the brothers have both taken up careers serving their country, Dias leading an elite police force and Matias a general in the military. When Dias and Matias learn that Ferreira, Angola's number one crime boss, is the same man who murdered their parents, one seeks revenge and the other justice. But Ferreira is running his operations from Cape Town, out of their jurisdiction. Now Dias and Matias must illegally cross into South Africa without getting caught and take down the man who took their parents. The only thing standing in their way is each other.
- Prince Harry and Meghan Markle take a trip to Africa to oversee the charity he started 15 years ago. He has a chance to walk in Diana's footsteps, meet Desmond Tutu, and see how he has improved lives in the villages.
- Welcome to the new, creative Africa. The documentary series AFRIPEDIA dispels common clichéd ideas of Africa and depicts the continent's avant-garde side in five episodes. Artists from Senegal, Ivory Coast, Angola, Ghana, Kenya and South Africa present photography, fashion, design or music from an innovative perspective. Heavy metal in South Africa, transsexuality in Angola, trendy fashion in Senegal and feminist projects in Ghana - AFRIPEDIA shows us Africa's arts scene in a refreshingly different light. The film offers insights into the dreams and future plans of young people in a rapidly changing continent.
- 'What kind of house does a man who has been imprisoned in a six-foot-by-nine-foot cell for over 30 years dream of?' This film captures the remarkable creative journey and friendship of Herman Wallace, one of the Angola 3, and artist Jackie Sumell while examining the injustice of prolonged solitary confinement.
- June 16th, 1995, Jerry Brown killed for a small bag of marijuana. He was sentenced to life in prison and sent to Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, America's most infamous and largest maximum-security prison. 5000 prisoners, mostly African Americans, are serving their time there. Most of them won't ever get out. Jerry Brown is the star of a brutal and unique rodeo: the Angola Prison Rodeo. "The Wildest Show in the South" as some call it. The participants are volunteers but are not allowed to train. This spectacular event allows them to make some money and earn a few seconds of fame in front of 10,000 spectators. For Burl Cain, Angola's warden, it is the occasion to make large profits and to develop with impunity his religious programs. By training certain prisoners to become missionaries, he wants to spread religion throughout the prison. Razor Wire Rodeo is the story of Jerry and these thousands of inmates, whose lives have been defined by violence in the poorest neighborhoods. In the arena, the fight against the bull becomes symbolic: it is indeed the fight of men against a crushing legal system.
- Rita Chiarelli's exploration of Louisiana's Angola Prison, its inmates and the blues music tradition they perform with her.
- A group of ruthless mercenaries involved in a guerrilla war in Congo.
- In love, out of luck, and locked up, Val risks everything to find Kandy before she marries another man and he loses her forever. Set amid the heat and moist, mysterious funk of New Orleans and Louisiana State Penitentiary, Sweet Kandy is a tale of two young lovers looking for a chance.
- Independence begins with memories of the colonial situation in Angola, reveals the first steps in the struggle and covers the main settings where it took place. From 1961 to 1974, the war in Angola spread from the bush areas in the North and Cabinda to the flood plains in the East, involving many, many people, the guerrillas and those that supported them. Meanwhile, prisons and prison camps were full of political prisoners. Using military endeavour as well as economic and legal reforms, Portugal managed to prolong a war that it could not win.
- DEATH METAL ANGOLA follows a loving Angolan couple, Sonia and Wilker, whose love for death metal music is bringing hope to the town and children of Huambo, and Angola as a country. The devastating reality of Angola's history of wars, and civil unrest has left the country's people torn, broken, and starving for something to give them peace. Sonia, and Wilker's dream to put on the first national rock festival ignites the emotions of the Angolan people, and helps them heal from the war stricken path Angola has left behind. This engaging reality of Angola touches the heart of the viewer, and sheds new light on a music genre that is not well understood.
- In June 2016, our two man team completed the first ever source-to-mouth expedition along the Kwanza River in Angola. We used a 40 year-old foldable wooden kayak that we paddled and carried along the 1,300km journey. This trip recorded information on wildlife and human activity along the remote stretches of the river. So far we have raised over USD25,000 for The HALO Trust, an organization specialising in the removal of the debris of war, such as landmines. Our journey is currently being reviewed by Guinness World Records. This is the story of how we did it.
- This documentary examines the issue of whether juveniles--those under 18 years of age--should be executed for crimes of which they are convicted merit the death penalty. Several inmates who are on Death Row for murders they committed when they were juveniles are interviewed.
- A quirky black comedy that examines the predatory lending practices of the US banking system.