The Miracle of Hope (2007)

En 1975, Ryszard Kapuściński, un veterano periodista polaco, se embarcó en un aparentemente suicida viaje por carretera al corazón de la guerra civil de Angola. Allí, fue testigo una vez más de la sucia realidad de la guerra y descubrió una sensación de impotencia que desconocía hasta entonces. Angola lo cambió para siempre: fue un reportero quien dejó Polonia, pero fue un escritor quien regresó…

Blood Diamonds es una serie documental hecha para televisión, originalmente transmitida por el History Channel, que analiza el comercio de diamantes que financia rebeliones y guerras en muchas naciones africanas. El programa se enfoca principalmente en dos naciones: Sierra Leona y Angola. Los diamantes que se comercializan con este fin se conocen como diamantes de sangre.

Dolph Lundgren es Christian Erickson, un destacado experto en demolición capacitado para desarmar campos minados en una operación humanitaria de limpieza de minas en Angola. Su hijo es asesinado y descubre que se están plantando minas durante la guerra para matar a personas en el área.

Scenes from the three last days of the festival in which the population of the old Kingdom of Jau participate yearly.

Following the 1884–85 Berlin Conference resolution on the partition of Africa, the Portuguese army uses a talented ensign to register the effective occupation of the territory belonging to the Cuamato people, conquered in 1907, in the south of Angola. A STORY FROM AFRICA enlivens a rarely seen photographic archive through the tragic tale of Calipalula, the Cuamato nobleman essential to the unfolding of events in this Portuguese pacification campaign.

RAI documentary filmed in 1996 about Angola, whose people, after more than ten years of anti-colonial struggle and twenty of civil war, still suffer due to the amount of active landmines scattered all over the country.

Sissako visits a war-torn Angola after thirty years of war in search of a friend and thereby through interviews reflects on the lost utopias of a generation of Africans who experienced the liberation struggles. His camera is witness to the dislocation and despair of those he encounters living in Angola, however he also discovers the resilient spirit of Africa and optimism for its future in unexpected ways.

A group of children, fleeing the war, is taken to Luanda accompanied by a nun. When they reach the aeroplane, 12-year-old N'Dala decides to leave the group and to reconnoitre the city. The nun then starts her unceasing quest for the missing boy. N'Dala, only carrying a textile bag and a doll made of wire, walks through the busy streets filled with people and traffic. Later he finds the tranquility of the island off the coast, where he meets the old fisherman Antonio, with whom he becomes friends. Not much later, he meets the lively, whimsical Zé, who is a little older than he is. N'Dala starts to experience the city and its inhabitants as increasingly forbidding and he would most like to return to the countryside from whence he came. Then he meets Joka, a fringe figure who persuades him to help with a robbery in exchange for money. With this film, Maria Joao Ganga wanted to provide a realistic sketch of the bitter political situation in Angola. One of her most important motivations ...

After the South African Defense Force wrongfully declares young Recce Henk Viljoen dead behind enemy lines, it’s up to him alone to use every skill and tool in his arsenal to make it back to his grieving wife.

Historia sobre la represión de un miembro del movimiento de liberación angoleño y de la búsqueda constante de su mujer con su hijo, la cual va revelando cómo funciona la lógica burocrática del colonialismo. Sambizanga de hecho es el nombre de un barrio obrero de Luanda donde estaba la cárcel portuguesa en la que fueron encerrados, torturados y asesinados numerosos militantes angoleños. El 4 de febrero de 1961, el MPLA atacó la prisión. La película empieza con la detención del líder revolucionario Domingos Xavier por oficiales portugueses. Le llevan a la cárcel de Sambizanga donde será torturado hasta la muerte si no delata a sus compañeros disidentes. La película sigue a María, la mujer de Domingos Xavier, que va de prisión en prisión en un intento por saber qué ha sido de su marido.

A young jet pilot fighter Quim has great difficulty accepting that his recently born child is disabled. His mother advises him to see a witch doctor, but Quim refuses. Instead he looks for his former mistress Djamila. His mind is completely confused and he no longer can distinguish reality from fantasy. A metaphor of Angola after its independence.

Set in the area surrounding the Angolan capital of Luanda, 'Liberdade' follows a young couple, Betty a seductive but domineering Chinese immigrant and Liberdade, a troubled young Angolan. When Betty tries to take the relationship to the next level Liberdade must go beyond his physical and psychological limits.