Ruy Duarte de Carvalho

The journey of an intellectual Creole. Before returning from Lisbon to Luanda, he stops in the Cape Verde islands in search of his ethnic and cultural roots.

A documentary in which Angolan laborers describe their working conditions under colonial rule.

Scenes from the three last days of the festival in which the population of the old Kingdom of Jau participate yearly.

The confrontation between two visions of the world: that of the elders of Jau and that of the students of the Faculty of Arts in Lubango, in what is considered to be Ruy Duarte de Carvalho's most ethnographic cinema.

No synopsis available yet.

Adapted from two legends of the Nyaneka people in southeastern Angola. Set during a time of famine, and with only two families surviving, the film charts the struggle of Nelisita, a young man who confronts the spirits with help from animals and his friends.

The journey of an intellectual Creole. Before returning from Lisbon to Luanda, he stops in the Cape Verde islands in search of his ethnic and cultural roots.

The journey of an intellectual Creole. Before returning from Lisbon to Luanda, he stops in the Cape Verde islands in search of his ethnic and cultural roots.

A documentary in which Angolan laborers describe their working conditions under colonial rule.

Scenes from the three last days of the festival in which the population of the old Kingdom of Jau participate yearly.

Scenes from the three last days of the festival in which the population of the old Kingdom of Jau participate yearly.

The confrontation between two visions of the world: that of the elders of Jau and that of the students of the Faculty of Arts in Lubango, in what is considered to be Ruy Duarte de Carvalho's most ethnographic cinema.

No synopsis available yet.

Adapted from two legends of the Nyaneka people in southeastern Angola. Set during a time of famine, and with only two families surviving, the film charts the struggle of Nelisita, a young man who confronts the spirits with help from animals and his friends.

Adapted from two legends of the Nyaneka people in southeastern Angola. Set during a time of famine, and with only two families surviving, the film charts the struggle of Nelisita, a young man who confronts the spirits with help from animals and his friends.

Two meetings in 1978 with Kimbanda Kambia, a traditional healer in rural southern Angola. Kimbanda shows the place where he treats and prepares medicines, the women who help him with these preparations, and talks about his practice - how he treats cases of madness, epilepsy, spirit and witchcraft possession.