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Marfilmes
Marfilmes is a Portuguese distributor specialized in Portuguese-speaking cinema from classics to moderns, dealing particularly with Portuguese-African speaking films. The company collaborated with the African Film Library and increased the scope of its titles to classical African films of different origins and languages. Marfilmes has a large experience within Portuguese cinema, contributing to that the years of exclusive collaboration with Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP), the state Portuguese television. African films distributed by Marfilmes Films and Filmmakers Film distributed by Portuguese Marfilmes {, class="wikitable" , - ! Director !! Films !! Year , - , Alberto Seixas Santos, , ''Gentle Morals'', , 1975 , - , Alfred Ehrhardt, , ''Portugal, A Country By The Sea'', , 1952 , - , rowspan="5", António da Cunha Telles, , ''Besieged'', , 1970 , - , ''My Friends'', , 1974 , - , '' Living On'', , 1976 , - , ''Pandora'', , 1993 , - , ''Kiss Me'', , 2004 , - , rows ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Batuque, The Soul Of A People
''Batuque, the Soul of a People'' (French title:''Batuque, l'âme d'un peuple'') is a 2006 documentary film written and directed by Júlio Silvão Tavares about the batuque musical group Raiz di Tambarina, and roots of this musical genre in Santiago, Cape Verde. Synopsis African slaves were first brought to Cape Verde by Portuguese settlers in 1462. These slaves brought with them the cultural rhythm and music which would become Batuque: a musical form punctuated by drums while participants danced in a circle. The dance, repressed during the Colonial era, has been adopted as a symbol of the Cape Verdan cultural identity. The film seeks to document the dance form through interviews and performance by the musical group Raiz di Tambarina. Cast Production ''Batuque, the Soul of a People'' was Silvão's first film. He participated in a course with the Africadoc network before beginning production. The film was initially pitched by Silvão in Senegal, filmed in Cape Verde and edited ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |