Marfilmes is a Portuguese distributor specialized in

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-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 Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP) is the public service broadcasting organisation of Portugal. It operates four national television channels and three national radio stations, as well as several satellite and cable offerings. The current co ...

(RTP), the state Portuguese television.

African films distributed by Marfilmes

Films and Filmmakers Film distributed by Portuguese Marfilmes

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Alberto Seixas Santos Alberto Jorge Seixas dos Santos (20 March 1936 – 10 December 2016) was a Portuguese film director. Biography Seixas Santos was born on 20 March 1936 in Lisbon, Portugal. Studied Historical-philosophical Sciences in the Faculty of Letters o ...

, , ''Gentle Morals'', , 1975 , - , Alfred Ehrhardt, , ''Portugal, A Country By The Sea'', , 1952 , - , rowspan="5",

António da Cunha Telles António Cohen da Cunha Telles (26 February 1935 – 23 November 2022)

, , ''Besieged'', , 1970 , - , ''My Friends'', , 1974 , - , '' Living On'', , 1976 , - , ''Pandora'', , 1993 , - , ''Kiss Me'', , 2004 , - , rowspan="2",

António de Macedo António de Macedo (5 July 1931 − 5 October 2017) was Portuguese filmmaker, writer, university professor and lecturer. He gave up filmmaking in the 1990s as he felt systematically excluded from the state support programs of the Portuguese Mi ...

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The Vows ''The Vows'' ( pt, A Promessa) is a 1973 Portuguese drama film directed by António de Macedo. It was entered into the 1973 Cannes Film Festival. Synopsis Maria do Mar and her husband, José, are young newlyweds living in a fishing village, P ...

'', , 1972 , - , ''Sunday Afternoon'', , 1965 , - , Carlos Vilardebó, , ''The Enchanted Islands'', , 1965 , - , Fernando Lopes, , ''The Edge of Horizon'', , 1993 , - , J. Ernesto de Sousa, , ''The Puppeteer'', , 1962 , - , rowspan="2",

João Botelho João Manuel Relvas Leopoldo Botelho (born 1949) is a Portuguese film director. He has directed and written the screenplays of numerous films. His films have won several awards. His works have been nominated for the Venice Film Festival's Golde ...

, , '' Here on Earth'', , 1993 , - , ''The Northern Land'', , 2009 , - , Joaquim Vieira, , ''The Last Communist'', , 2005 , - , Joaquim Vieira e Fernanda Bizarro, , ''Franco e Salazar - Iberian Brothers'', , 2004 , - ,

Jom Tob Azulay Jom Tob Azulay (born 1941 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a filmmaker and former diplomat. He has taught film at Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro. Career From 1971 to 1974, he served as deputy-consul of Brazil in Los Angeles while ...

, , ''The Jew'', , 1995 , - ,

Jorge Brum do Canto Jorge Brum do Canto (10 February 1910 – 7 February 1994) was a Portuguese film director and actor. His career spanned over a half-century, from 1929 to 1984. Biography Jorge Brum do Canto was born in Lisbon into a family with aristocratic Flemi ...

, , ''The Song of The Earth'', , 1938 , - , Jorge Paixão da Costa, , ''The Mystery of Sintra'', , 2007 , - , Leandro Ferreira, , ''The Ones That Came Back'', , 2002 , - , rowspan="5", Manuel Guimarães, , ''The Circus'', , 1951 , - , Nazaré, , 1952 , - , ''{{Not a typo, Lifes Adrift'', , 1956 , - , '' My Little Seamstress'', , 1958 , - , ''The Wheat And The Tares'', , 1965 , - , Nicholas Oulman, , '' The man behind Amália'', , 2009 , - , Perdigão Queiroga, , ''The Millionaire'', , 1962 , - , rowspan="2", Ricardo Costa, , '' Our Football'', , 1984 , - , ''Mists'', , 2003 , - , Rui Simões, , ''If You Can Look See, If You Can See Notice'', , 2004 , - ,

Solveig Nordlund Solveig Nordlund (born June 9, 1943) is a Swedish-Portuguese filmmaker. Biography Nordlund grew up in Stockholm and has a BA degree in Art History from the University of Stockholm. In 1962, she met Alberto Seixas Santos, whom she married, and ...

, , '' Low-Flying Aircraft'', , 2001 , - ,

Teresa Villaverde Teresa Villaverde (born 18 May 1966) is a Portuguese film director. Her film ''Os Mutantes'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. Filmography *''A Idade Maior'' (1991) *'' Três Irmãos'' (1994) *''Os Mu ...

, , ''In Favour of Light'', , 2003 , - ,

Vicente Jorge Silva Vicente is an Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese name. Like its French variant, Vincent, it is derived from the Latin name ''Vincentius'' meaning "conquering" (from Latin ''vincere'', "to conquer"). Vicente may refer to: Location *São Vicente, Cap ...

, , ''The Unknown Islands'', , 2008

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