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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • My Semba

    A batida-driven rap symphony of Luanda, seen through those chasing dignity and their dreams.
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  • An Impossible Address

    A personal essay examining the life of the revolutionary Sita Valles and the solidarity between India and Africa against the Portuguese empire.
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  • Nome

    A clear-sighted yet lyrical recreation of Guinea-Bissau’s struggle against Portuguese colonialism.  
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  • Hold Time For Me

    A young Angolan photographer flees family mourning to embark on a surreal quest in search of a vanished Cuban biologist in an environmental crisis-rid
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  • Rostov-Luanda

    Travelogue by Sissako who sets off in Angola looking for the resistance fighter Baribanga, with whom he made an unforgettable train journey in Russia
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  • Acácio

    According to many she is the best young Brazilian documentary maker and she has made a film about the artist Acácio Videira and his wife,…
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  • Death Metal Angola

    War-ravaged and potentially the richest country in Africa, Angola is the epicentre of the African hardcore music scene. Two people running an orphanag
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  • Air Conditioner

    Air conditioners mysteriously fall from buildings in the Angolan capital. Pleasantly free film with a great soundtrack.
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  • Concrete Affection – Zopo Lady

    In the empty city of Luanda, Angola, there are only ghosts and memories. A man has to take the painful decision to leave his city…
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  • Havemos de voltar

    A taxidermied sable antelope is the protagonist in a story about conserving memory and linking Angola’s colonial history to its contemporary influence
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