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Stories with Licinio Azevedo (Histórias com Licínio Azevedo) Format/Genre: Video/Documentary Director: Pola Ribeiro Country of origin: Brazil Duration: 52 minutes Interview with Licíinio Azevedo, a brazilian film maker, who lives in Mozambique. The stories he wants to tell us about the culture, the history of this people, and how he works to make his movies.

Port My Prince (Puerto Principe Mio)

Format/Genre: Video/Documentary
Director: Rigoberto Lopez
Country of origin: Cuba
Duration: 52 minutes

The city of Puerto Principe, Haiti is the character of this movie. How the people survive and all the troubles they have to face like environment problems, no resources.

The Inheritance Tree (A Árvore dos Antepassados) Forrmat/Genre: Video/Documentary Director: Licínio Azevedo Country of origin: Mozambique Duration: 52 minutes In 1984, when the war gets to the town of Tete, in the North Mozambique, Alexandre is chosen by his uncles to take the family to Malawy.

Tchuma Tchato

Format/Genre: Video / Documentary
Director: Licínio Azevedo
Country of origin: Mozambique
Duration: 52 minutes

Fronteer zone: River Zambeze. The very first experience of management or natural resources. The original hunters are trained to be the savers of animals. The lions, monkeys the snake and all spirits had agree with the change, except for the leopard.

Pixaim

Format/Genre: 35mm / Fiction
Director: Fernando Bellens
Country of origin: Brazil
Duration: 26 minutes

A comedy about a racist woman, who owns a beauty-shop in the Historical Center of Salvador, and her relation ship with her landlord, a black man. The story starts in the seventies and goes until nowadays.

Oriki

Format/Genre: 35mm / Documentary
Director: Moysés Augusto / Jorge Alfredo
Country of origin: Brazil
Duration: 15 minutes

The misteries and syncretism of the Yemanja's Party. The images are full of poetry and are illustrated with texts of Antônio Risério, Caetano Veloso and Arnaldo Antunes.

The Widow's Inheritance (A Herança da Viúva)

Format/Genre: Video / Fiction
Director: Sol de Carvalho
Country of origin: Mozambique
Duration: 54 minutes

The true story of a widow. After her husband dies, her neighborhood tells she is the murderer. How she survives.

Street Circles (Rodas de Rua)

Format/Genre: Video Art
Director: Orlando Lima
Country of origin: Mozambique
Duration: 4 minutes

How the little kids in Mozambique make their own toys with trash.

Jumping Rope (Saltando à Corda)

Format/Genre: Video Art
Director: Chico Carneiro
Country of origin: Mozambique
Duration: 6 minutes

An art video that show how the little girls in Mozambique learns how to play and "jump" the rope.

Penalty (Pênalti)

Format/Genre: Video / Fiction
Director: Adler Kibe Paz
Country of origin: Brazil
Duration: 10 minutes

The story of a soccer player from Varzea, who goes through a period of anguish and affliction after missing a penalty on the finals.

Coffee (Preto no Branco) Format/Genre: Video/Documentary Director: Joel Almeida Country of origin: Brazil Duration: 30 minutes The boys from Brazil, and the way they send the coffee. How they create the cars, with brillant ideas.

Muhipiti Alima

Format/Genre: Video / Fiction
Director: Sol de Carvalho
Country of origin: Mozambique
Duration: 34 minutes

Alima wants to go to school and her husband doesn't permit. How she finds a way to live, selling candies on the streets of Maputo and keep going to school.

Fintar el Destino

Format/Genre: 35mm / Fiction
Director: Vendrell
Country of origin: Portugal / Cape Verde
Duration: 90 minutes

Life has moved too fast for Mané. At age 50. He watches the slow sacrifices of his ideals. His work in a small commercial shop and grocer's has worn him out. Now forgotten, with his past as a great football player for Mindelense in St. Vincent and Cape Verde, he only has the belated compassion of his friends and cafe companions. When trainig a youth team, he sees himself again in Kalu, a rebellious but talented youth. He hopes to regain his dreams when Kalu is called upon to play in the Portuguese Cup finals.

Sidney Poitier at Firipe Barberu Barber Shop
(Sidney Poitier na barbearia de Firipe Barberu)

Format/Genre: Video / Documentary
Director: Francisco Villa-Lobos
Country of origin: Portugal / Mozambique
Duration: 18 minutes

Mozambique at the end of the colonial period. Firipe is a barber and works under a huge tree in the busy square with his assistant Gaspar Vivito. To attract and impress his customers Firipe has no hesitation in inventing stories about famous clients who have had their hair cut by him, including Sidney Poitier.

The War of Angola (Angola - Nação Coragem)

Format/Genre: Video / Documentary
Director: Sérgio Guerra
Country of origin: Brazil / Angola
Duration: 28 minutes

The country of Angola could be a nation of prosperity, if wasn't for the civil war that has been happening for almost 25 years. This tragedy is ignored by the broadcasting news all over the world,and has resulted in over 2 million deaths, more than one hundred thousands of mutilations and 1 milion refugees, making a damage estimated in 40 million dollars.

The water knows the way (A Água conhece o seu caminho)

Format/Genre: Video / Documentary
Director: Chico Carneiro
Country of origin: Mozambique
Duration: 32 minutes

In the capital of Mozambique, a little hole on one of the main avenues becomes a crater more than two kilometers wide. With the rain floods of February 2000, the crater gets even bigger putting in risk the life of hundreds of people. This documentary shows the drama of two families that had their lies affected by the erosion.

MOPIOPIO / SOUFLE D' Angola

Format/Genre: Video / Documentary
Director: Zezé Gamboa
Country of origin: Angola
Duration: 54 minutes

The video shows the people of Angola. Besides the war, they survive. With music and cheerful.

A Lenda do Pai Inácio

Format/Genre: 35mm / Fiction
Director: Pola Ribeiro
Country of origin: Brazil
Duration: 35 minutes

Chapada Diamantina, XIX Century, a forbidden love is about to change the tense reality of life in the gold-rush. A slave called Inácio attempts an impossible flight to escape from the hands of a powerful colonel. His only weapon is the knowledge of the magic hidden in the nature of the Chapada Diamantina.

O Miradouro da Lua

Format/Genre: 35mm / Fiction
Director: Jorge Antônio
Country of origin: Portugal
Duration: 90 minutes

A young drama apprentice gets an invitation, by his unknown father, to come to Angola. During the trip he meets an Angolan girl. When he gets to his father's home a great surprise will change his life.

A Song to Angola (Uma Canção para Angola)

Format/Genre: Videoclip
Director: Farouk Salomão
Country of origin: Brazil
Durations: 5 minutes

A video-clip made by Brazilian, Portuguese and African singers, as a tribute to the people of Angola.

A Negação do Brasil

Format/Genre: 35mm / Documentary
Director: Joel Zito Araújo
Country of origin: Brazil
Duration: 90 minutes

A documentary about the taboos, stereotypes, and the struggle of the black actors in the Brazilian television. How the black-man was symbolized by the Brazilian soup-opera in 30 years of history. The story of Isaura Bruno, a Brazilian black actress who played "Mamãe Dolores", one of the most important characters of the Brazilian television, and died poor and unknown at the Praça da Sé, in São Paulo.

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