Video & DVD Collection: Portuguese & English Language.
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There are 5 records for Feature Films from Lusophone
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| Title: | Africa dreaming: [The gaze of the stars] | | Director: | João Ribeiro | | Format: | 1 videocassette (104) [26 min.]: sd., col. ; 1/2 in. | | Imprint: | San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel distributor, 1997. | | Language: | In Portuguese with English subtitles.
| | Notes: | This tape include four short films on love from Namibia, Tunisia, Senegal, and Mozambique. Here we include information about the film made in Mozambique. For more information, please see the record in the Dartmouth online catalog.
| | Plot: | The Gaze of the Stars. 1997. 26 minutes. In Portuguese with English subtitles. Sexual Drama. Coming of Age Drama. African Cinema [Mozambique]. Machismo. Directed by Joao Ribeiro.
A young boy living with his uncle tries to learn about the nature of his uncle\'s relationship with a woman they believe is living with a man who brutally beats her. It is a coming of age story set in a place just awakening to the changing role of women in modern Africa. The young hero of the story is searching for answers to his uncle\'s past relationship with a woman he married, looking to find what went wrong. Both the boy and his uncle discover how far a man may go to fool others about his relationship with a woman. Clever social epiphany.
With: Joao Manja as Salomao, Tobias Sigauque as Betinho, Luis Santos as Saide, Alfredo Mauricio as Antoninho, Jaime Magaia as Fosfato, Jorge Tome as Adnandje, Angelical Munhéné as Vizinha and Hortenncia Tivane as Julia. Notes: Produced by Pedro Pimenta. Written by Mia Couto and Jao Ribeiro form an original idea by Couto. Music by Karen Boswell. Photography by Guilio Biccari.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Short films. Mozambique. Love -- Africa. Social conditions | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Na cidade vazia / Hollow city | | Director: | Maria João Ganga | | Format: | 1 videocassette (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. | | Imprint: | New York : Global Film Initiative ; Brooklyn, NY : First Run/Icarus Films [distributor], 2005] | | Language: | Portuguese with English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture in 2004. Um filme de Maria João Ganga ; François Gonot apresenta uma co-produção Integrada, Animatógrafo 2 ; productor, François Gonot ; guião e realização, Maria João Ganga. Cinematographer, Jacques Besse ; music, Né Gonçalves ; editor, Pascale Chavance... Performer Roldan Pinto João, Domingos Fernandes Fonseca, Raúl Rosário, Júlia Botelho, Ana Bustorff.
| | Plot: | N'dala is an orphan from the Angolan province of Bie, a flashpoint in the rebellion that incited Angola's brutal civil war. In 1991 N'dala is airlifted by missionaries to the port city of Luanda, Angola's capital. He slips away from the nuns at the airport, choosing the solitude of the streets of the old city, but he is not prepared for living by his wits. His wandering leads N'dala to the beach where he takes shelter in an old fisherman's shack, but he is haunted by nightmares of the assault that left his family dead, and he soon disappears into the shanty-town neighborhoods of the city. Each step N'dala takes into the dark streets of the city leads him farther from his home.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Angola. History. Civil War, 1975-2002. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Mortu nega / Those whom death refused | | Director: | Flora Gomes. | | Format: | 1 videocassette (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. | | Imprint: | San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1998? | | Language: | Portuguese Criolo with English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Videocassette release of a motion picture originally produced in 1988.
Credits Director/screenwriter, Flora Gomes ; screenwriter, David Lang ; editor, Christiane Lack. Baldo, M\'Male Nhasse, Pedro Da Silva.
Performer Bya Gomes, Tunu Eugenio Almada, Mamadu Uri Baldo, M\'Male Nhasse, Pedro Da Silva.
| | Plot: | "In 1973, independence was proclaimed [in Guinea Bissau], ending five centuries of Portuguese colonization and a decade of armed struggle. [This film], Gomes\' first feature-length film, portrays this critical period in history through the story of one woman, Diminga, whose husband is fighting on the front lines. The camera captures Cabral\'s assassination, the ending of hostilities, and the reconstruction of the economically and spiritually devastated country struggling with drought and famine. The term "Mortu Nega" means those that death did not want, and Gomes films a ceremony using 3000 extras, in which survivors call upon the dead, asking them how they can go on living in such terrible conditions"--Le monde Cannes, \'96 supplement, May 10
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Guinea-Bissau. Droughts. Famines | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | O Testamento do Senhor Napumoceno da Silva Araujo / Napomuceno\'s Will | | Director: | Francisco Manso | | Format: | 1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. | | Imprint: | New York : Fox Lorber Films ; Distributed by Winstar TV & Video, | | Language: | In Portuguese with optional English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Uma co-produção J.L. Vasconcelos, Lda. ... [et al.] ; guião, Mário Prata ; director de produção, António Gonçalo ; realização, Francisco Manso.
Imprint c2001. Based on the novel: O testamento do sr. Napumoceno da Silva Araújo / Germano Almeida. Includes interactive menus, scene access, filmographies and awards. Originally released as a motion picture in 1998. Credits Director of photography, Edgar Moura ; editing, Luís Sobral ; music, Tito Paris, Toy Viera. Performer Nelson Xavier, Maria Ceiça, Chico Diaz, Zezé Motta, Via Negromonte, Milton Gonçalves, Francisco de Assis, Karla Leal, Camacho Costa, Elisa Lucnida, José Eduardo, Veluma D\'Oba, Horácio Santos, Eliezer Motta, Alexandre de Sousa, Manuel Estêvão, Silvestre Evora, Cesária Evora. Awards Best Film, Gramada International Film Festival, 1999.
| | Plot: | The posthumous story of Cape Verde\'s leading citizen, who leaves his fortune to the daughter no one knew he had. As part of her inheritance, Graca receives a set of audiocassettes containing her father\'s personal accounts of his wild, romantic and often dubious exploits.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Cape Verde.
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| Title: | Udju azul di Yonta / The blue eyes of Yonta | | Director: | Flora Gomes | | Format: | 1 videocassette (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. | | Imprint: | San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1994. | | Language: | Crioulo dialogue. English subtitles.
| | Notes: | Um filme de Flora Gomes ; direccão de producão, Angela Cerveira, Ana Costa ; guião e diálogos, Flora Gomes. Performers: Maysa Marta, Pedro Dias, António Simão Mendes, Mohamed Lamine Seidi, Bia Gomes.
| | Plot: | Udju Azul di Yonta offers a portrait of the disillusionment of the revolutionary generation in Guinea-Bissau and the vibrant, if unintended socity which developed after independence in 1973. It tells the story of three people so in love with their dreams that they miss the real opportunities which life offers.
| | Subjects: | Feature films. Guinea-Bissau. Social conditions. | | Location: | View Catalog Record |
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