Movies and TvShows featuring "guinea-bissau" theme.

April Captains is a drama movie set in 1970s Portugal during the Carnation Revolution. It follows the story of a young teacher who becomes involved in the student rebellion against the dictatorship. The movie explores themes of democracy, colonialism, and the struggle for freedom.

Concerning Violence is a documentary film that examines the systematic violence and oppression faced by African nations during the period of colonization. It delves into the impact of imperialism, colonialism, and neo-colonialism on the social, political, and economic structures of these nations. Through archive footage and interviews, the film exposes the struggles, resistance, and fight for independence of these countries.

Clara is a lazy and irresponsible teenager, who live in Bissau (the capital city of Guinea-Bissau), and uses her beauty as a weapon. Everyone around her admonishes her, despising her and naming her as Clara di Sabura (Clara of Parties, of the Good Life).

The story of a woman who searches through the country for her husband, a resistant, while the war for independence is raging. She finds him at last and saves his life. When peace finally arrives, they have to learn how to be together again and start living in a destroyed land.

We went to research the conditions of the students in the guerrilla schools in the mangroves. Instead, we soon became ourselves the learners and the first lesson was how to walk. In the mangrove school the learning happens with the whole body.

"Diário de Bissau" was filmed in 2017 and reports the daily life of the capital city of Guinea-Bissau. By reading the newspaper Diário de Bissau, which the film is named after, we take notice of the local news. This reading is intercut with the testimony of Martinho Barbosa, a Guinean who witnessed Guinea's recent history and presents his view of the key issues facing the country.