Odete
An immigrant mother, hurting from a backache, calls for her son to help carry her groceries home. Along their way, they talk about the future through the past, returning to all of their disagreements, disillusionments, rancor and resentments.
Grandmother
София прозябает странной уединённой жизнью в старых апртаментах в Лиссабоне, где она выросла. Мариама прибывает из Гвинеи-Бисау, нанятая матерью Софии, чтобы помочь ухаживать за домом и её сыном.Появление Бобоо, младшей сестры Мариамы, пробуждает в Софии стремление воспрять. Вынужденное сосуществование Софии и Мариамы заставляет их противостоять собственным призракам.
Bibia
Cecília is sixteen years old. She has a prosthesis in her left hand and a new love, but she does not have her mother's attention.
Rodília
В конце 1960-х Эвита приезжает в Мозамбик, чтобы выйти замуж за Луиша, студента-математика, который там исполняет воинскую службу
Vita's Mother
Vita, a young and beautiful African woman learns that finding love and happiness need not come at the sacrifice of one's identity.
Antonia
Done in the style of an African folk tale, this film, a collaboration between European and African countries, is said to be among the most elaborate, high tech film in African film. Exquisitely photographed and filled with archetypal figures to create a poetic look at nature's revenge against those who would exploit her. It is set in the forest village of Amanha Lundju, a place where the birth of children is celebrated by the planting of a tree. The trees are considered spiritual twins. But for every tree planted, the rapacious state destroys many more for firewood and lumber.
Belante
A beautiful, intelligent and flirtatious young girl, Yonta, is secretly in love with a friend of her parents, Vicente, a hero of the war of independence. Vicente is unaware of her passion as she is of the love of a young man who sends her anonymous love letters.
Diminga
The story of a woman who searches through the country for her husband, a resistant, while the war for independence is raging. She finds him at last and saves his life. When peace finally arrives, they have to learn how to be together again and start living in a destroyed land.
Bejo, 12 years old, lives with his brother Mario, a sculptor. Having heard the news on the radio his dream is to see the Bissau carnival, but he has been forbidden to do so. He escapes, wanders throught the forest, crosses rice fields until the river next to the city. His brother will look for him during the carnival...
