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Air Conditioner is a 2020 Angolan film directed by Fradique (Mário Bastos). The film had its worldpremiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam and premiered June 6, 2020 in Luanda at the We Are One online film festival. The film was shot in 2020 in Luanda by Generation 80. The screenplay is co-written by Ery Claver. source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Conditioner_(film) When the air-conditioners mysteriously start to fall in city of Luanda, Matacedo (security guard) and Zezinha (housemaid) have the mission of retrieving their boss's ac. source: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10389922/ ***SPOILER ALERT*** F: We apologize in advance for having left our week dedicated to Angola open and only after 2 months do this review. We were swamped with work and we couldn't get our hands on the blog. Anyway, I still remember my opinions about the film and I'm sharing them next.  K: Hello movie lovers! We went into a long hibernation afte...

Hollow City is a 2004 full-length movie directed by Angolan-born director Maria João Ganga. The film is one of the first to be produced in Angola since the end of the civil war, and the first film produced by an Angolan woman. Filming was done on location in Luanda, Angola. International versions of the film are in the Portuguese language with English subtitles. source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_City_(film) The film centers around the life of an orphan named N'dala, who is taken to the city of Luanda after the death of his parents during the Angolan civil war. Wanting to return to his hometown of Bié, N'dala flees from the nuns who have saved him into the streets of the city. He wanders from place to place meeting various figures, such as a young man named Zé who tries to help him find a home. Later in the film N'dala is taken under the wing of a criminal named Joka who exploits him for his own uses. source: https://www.imdb.com/title/t...

Death Metal Angola is a 2012 Angolan-American music biographical film directed by Jeremy Xido. Death Metal Angola received unanimous acclaim during its festival run. The Huffington Post's E. Nina Rothe called Death Metal Angola a "must-watch film" and "a cult-classic in the making." source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Metal_Angola Death Metal Angola follows a loving Angolan couple, Sonia and Wilker, whose love for death metal music is bringing hope to the town and children of Huambo, and Angola as a country. source: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2118609/ ***SPOILER ALERT*** K: The third film of the week is Death metal Angola from the American director Jeremy Xido. When Freddie pressed play, I honestly rolled my eyes at the fact that I didn't feel like listening to death metal for 83 minutes. The film opens with horrifying statistics about the number of dead and wounded Angolans during the civil war. Then Wilke...

Into the Okavango is a 2018 American National Geographic documentary film written, directed and produced by Neil Gelinas. The film was predominantly shot in Angola and Botswana. It was released on 22 April 2018 and gained critical acclaim for the portrayal of wildlife. The documentary film was also screened in a handful of international film festivals and also won several awards and nominations. source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_Okavango A passionate conservation biologist brings together a river bushman fearful of losing his past and a young scientist uncertain of her future on an epic, four-month expedition across three countries, through unexplored and dangerous landscapes, in order to save the Okavango Delta, one of our planet's last pristine wildernesses. source: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7573844/ ***SPOILER ALERT*** K: Hello friends! Today we have an incredibly beautiful journey through the Okavango from National Geogr...

Another Day of Life is a 2018 Polish-Spanish-Belgian-German-Hungarian animated feature co-production directed by Raúl de la Fuente and Damian Nenow, based on Ryszard Kapuściński's autobiographical account, Another Day of Life. source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_Day_of_Life_(film) A gripping story of a three-month-long journey that renowned Polish reporter Ryszard Kapuscinski took across Angola, ravaged by a war in which the front lines shifted like a kaleidoscope, from one day to the next. source: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2967856/ ***SPOILER ALERT*** F: We got off to a strong start on our visit to Angola this week. It was almost certain that it had to be a film about war, since the country has been in a civil war since 1975 and until 2002. This is a non-fiction hybrid film of animation and documentary that is intertwined with my life and hence my interest is sharper than usual. My maternal family lived in Angola until the ...

Hello gente bonita! Want to know what we got for this week from our movie raffle? Do you? Do you? We are taking a 5 day trip to (drum roll) ANGOLA! Oh, you could already tell from the picture above... This week we are looking for movies taking place in Angola or done by some director from this beautiful country in Africa. We don't know what we will have and this is going to be a difficult search because we are talking about a country that is not prolific in cinema productions. But it's time to be! People in Angola need to make movies and show us. That is if you have taken care of all the urgent social issues you used to have or still have... Don't want to sound like a prick because I don't know shit about Angola, never been there. My father worked there for a few years, as well as a friend of mine. Sadly, most of the feedback is negative. Corruption and poverty are the first words that come to mind. So, you need to fix that shit so that you can bring us some beautiful ...