List of Angolan films

This is a sortable list of films produced in Angola, many in the Portuguese language.

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (October 2011)

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## Features

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Year  | Title  | Director  | Genre  | Notes

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1970 | Des fusils pour Banta |  |  | Angola or Guinea-Bissau?
1973 | A proposito dell'Angola | Augusta Conchiglia

e Stefano de Stefani

|  | 79min
1973 | Sambizanga | Sarah Maldoror | drama | 97min
1977  | O Golpe | Francisco Henriques  |  |
1977 | Ponto da situação | Francisco Henriques | TV doc | 58min
1977  | Faz lá Coragem Camarada | Ruy Duarte de Carvalho |  | 120min
1978  | O Ritmo do N'gola Ritmos  | António Ole | documentary  | 59min
1979 | Presente Angolano: Tempo Mumuila | Ruy Duarte de Carvalho | documentary | 6h, TV miniseries; 10 ep. bw: A Huila e os Mumuilas (16 min) Lua da Seca Menor (60 min)

Haydongo, o valor de um homem (45')

Pedra Sozinha não sustém panela (36')

O Kimbanda Kambia (41min)

Oficios (29min) Ekwenge (25min) Makumukas (27') Kimbanda (21', c)

Ondyelwa, a festa do boi sagrado (42', colour)

1980  | Luimbi  | Henrique Ruivo Alves e

Manuel Tomás Francisco (ambos sob o pseudónimo de Njenji)

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1980 | No caminho das estrelas | António Ole |  | 56min
1981 | Pamberi ne Zimbabwe | Carlos Henriques,

João Costa

|  | 50min, co-prod Angola-Moçambique
1982 | Memoria de um Dia | Orlando Fortunato  |  |
1982 | Nelisita | Ruy Duarte de Carvalho | fiction  | 64min, Olunyaneka, with Portuguese subtitles
1989 | Comboio da Canhoca | Orlando Fortunato  |  | Final version, 2004. 90min
1991 | Mopiopio | Zézé Gamboa | documentary | 55min
1992 | Caravana | Rogelio Paris &

Júlio César Rodriguez

|  | co-prod Cuba & Angola
1993 | O Miradouro da Lua | Jorge António  |  | co-production Portugal-Angola
1996 | Les Oubliées | Anne-Laure Folly | documentary | 53min, Portuguese with French subtitles
1998 | Dissidence | Zézé Gamboa | documentary | 55min
2004 | The Hero | Zézé Gamboa | drama  | co-prod Angola, Portugal, France
2004 | Hollow City | Maria João Ganga | drama  |
2005  | Angola: histórias da música popular  | Jorge António  | documentary  | 55min
2007  | Oxalá cresçam Pitangas  | Ondjaki, Kiluanje Liberdade  | documentary  |
2012 | The Great Kilapy | Zézé Gamboa | comedy-drama |
2012  | Death Metal Angola | Jeremy Xido  | documentary  |
2012  | Tchinhango  | Tiago Figueiredo  | documentary  |
2013 | Njinga: Queen Of Angola | Sérgio Graciano | historical epic |
2015  | Independência: esta é a nossa memória  | Mário Bastos | documentary  |
2015  | Deuses da Água  | Pablo César  | fiction  | co-prod Argentina / Angola
2017  | A Ilha dos Cães  | Jorge António  |  | shot in São Tomé e Principe
2017  | Do Outro Lado do Mundo  | Sérgio Afonso  | documentary  |
2019  | Para Lá dos Meus Passos  | Kamy Lara  | documentary  | 72 min, Portuguese with English and French subtitles
2020  | Air Conditioner | Fradique | drama  |
2022  | Nossa Senhora da Loja do Chinês  | Ery Claver  | drama  |
2022  | Ludvania  | João Pedro  | drama  | 95min

## Mediums and Shorts

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Year  | Title  | Director  | Genre  | Notes

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1970  | Monangambe | Sarah Maldoror |  | 17min
1975  | Uma Festa para Viver  | Ruy Duarte de Carvalho | TV documentary  | 22min
1975  | Geração 50  | Ruy Duarte de Carvalho | documentary  | 24min
1976  | A Luta Continua  | Asdrubal Rebelo e Bruno Muel  | documentary  | 22min
1977  | Eu Sou, Eu Era, Eu Quero Ser... Pioneiro Político  | Henrique Ruivo Alves  | documentary  |
1978  | Nascidos na Luta, Vivendo a Vitória  | Asdrubal Rebelo  | TV documentary  | 22min
1978  | Carnaval da vitoria | António Ole |  | 40min
1980  | Kiala Mukanga (É Tudo às Claras)  | Henrique Ruivo Alves e Manuel Tomás Francisco

(ambos sob o pseudónimo de Njenji)

|  | 41 min
1981  | Rebita  | Manuel Costa e Silva (coord. collective direction)  |  |
1982  | Conceição Tchiambula: um dia, uma vida  | António Ole | documentary  | 30min
1982  | O Balanço do Tempo na Cena de Angola  | Ruy Duarte de Carvalho | documentary  | 43min
1986  | Levanta, voa, vamos  | Asdrubal Rebelo  | documentary  | 22min
1988  | Caribeando  | Mariano Bartolomeu  | fiction, prod. Cuba  | 10min
1991  | Quem faz correr Quim  | Mariano Bartolomeu  | fiction  | 22min
1996  | O Sol ainda brilha  | Mariano Bartolomeu  | documentary  |
2001  | Burned By Blue | Zezé Gamboa | documentary  | 26min
2002  | O Desassossego de Pessoa | Zezé Gamboa | documentary  | 10min
2003  | O Contador de Histórias  | Mariano Bartolomeu  |  | 30min
2008  | Uma Noite Perfeita para Falar de Amor  | Mariano Bartolomeu  |  | 30min
2010  | Alambamento  | Mário Bastos | fiction  | 15min
2014  | Afripidia x Angola  | Teddy Goitom & Benjamin Taft  | documentary  | 30min
2016  | Os ouvidos que ouvem  | Hugo Salvaterra  | fiction, co-prod EUA  | 30min
2017  | Havemos de voltar  | Kiluanji Kia Henda | fiction  | 10min
2018  | Paisagens Propícias  | Jorge António, Graça Castanheira  | documentary  |
2018  | Não olhes, se não vês  | Mário Bastos |  | 1min
2018  | Lúcia, no céu, com semáforos  | Ery Claver  |  | 15min
2019  | 1999  | Hugo Salvaterra  | fiction, co-prod EUA  | 17min

## Films set in Angola - features

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Year  | Title  | Director  | Genre  | Notes

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1968  | Riusciranno i nostri eroi a ritrovare l'amico misteriosamente scomparso in Africa? | Ettore Scola | fiction  |
1974  | Malteses, burgueses e às vezes |  | fiction  | 100min
1997  | Rostov-Luanda  | Abderrahmane Sissako | documentary  |
1998 | Sweepers | Keoni Waxman | action adventure drama |
2007  | Adeus, até amanhã  | António Escudeiro  | documentary  |
2008  | Kangamba  | Rogelio Paris  |  |
2009  | Luanda, a Fábrica da Música  | Kiluanje Liberdade, Inês Gonçalves  | documentary  |
2013  | De Armas e bagagens  | Ana Delgado Martins  | documentary  | 72min
2013  | Ole, António Ole  | Rui Simões  | documentary  | 77min
2016  | An Outpost of Progress (Posto Avançado do Progresso)  | Hugo Vieira da Silva  | fiction  | 120min
2016  | Letters from War (cartas da guerra) | Ivo Ferreira | fiction  | 105min
2016  | Kayak the Kwanza  | Oscar Scafidi  | documentary  |
2018  | Another Day of Life | Raúl de la Fuente, Damian Nenow  |  |
2018  | Into the Okavango | Neil Gelinas  | documentary  |
2019  | Serpentarius  | Carlos Conceição  | fiction  |
2022  | Nayola  | José Miguel Ribeiro  | Animation  | 90min

## Films set in Angola - mediums and shorts

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Year  | Title  | Director  | Genre  | Notes

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2013  | Honey]  | Adelina Antónia, Martin Gruber, Miguel S. Hilario, Henriques Bino Job, Fatima Jose & Evaristo Quintas  | documentary  | 39min
2016  | Making a Living in the Dry Season | Fazer pela vida na estação seca  | Inês Ponte  | documentary  | 36min
2019  | A Story from Africa  | Bill Woodberry  | photo-film  | 33min

## See also

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* Film portal
* Lists portal

* Cinema of Angola
* Culture of Angola
* List of African films

## External links

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* Angolan film at the Internet Movie Database

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