Marfilmes

Marfilmes is a Portuguese distributor specialized in the diffusion of Portuguese-speaking cinema from classics to moderns, dealing particularly with Portuguese-African speaking films. Recently, following an intense collaboration with the African Film Library opened the horizons of the company to classical African films of different origins and languages, Thanks to a careful restoration from the original negatives, she can now offer rare and precious titles from this continent that have not been seen for decades.

Marfilmes has a large experience within the Portuguese cinema, contributing to that the years of exclusive collaboration with RTP (Rádio e Televisão de Portugal), the state Portuguese television.

African films distributed by Marfilmes

Country	Director	Films	Year
United Kingdom	Amy Hardie and Arthur Howes	Kafi's Story	1989
Cape Verde	Ana Ramos Lisboa	Amílcar Cabral (documentary)	2001
United Kingdom	Arthur Howes	Nuba Conversations	2000
France	Christian Lajoumard	Children of Noma	2005
Mali	Falaba Issa Traoré	Bamunan	1990
Portugal	Fernando Vendrell	Light Drops	2002
Guinea-Bissau	Flora Gomes	Mortu Nega	1988
		The Blue Eyes of Yonta	1992
Portugal and  Angola	Inês Gonçalves and Kiluanje Liberdade	Hope The Pitanga Cherries Grow - Tales of Luanda	2007
		Tchiloli, Masks and Myths	2009
		Luanda, The Music Factory	2009
Mozambique	Isabel Noronha	Ngwenya, The Crocodile	2007
Republic of the Congo	Jean-Michel Tchissoukou	The Wrestlers	1982
Cameroon	Jean-Pierre Dikongué Pipa	Muna Moto	1975
		Le prix de la liberté	1978
		Funny Stories and Funny People	1983
		Badiaga	1987
Portugal	Jorge António	Other Moves	2003
Cape Verde	Júlio Silvão Tavares	Batuque, the Soul of a People	2007
United Kingdom	Karen Boswall	Marrabenta Stories	2004
Ivory Coast	Kozoloa Yeo	Petanqui	1983
Cape Verde	Leão Lopes	The Island of Contenda	1995
Burundi	Léonce Ngabo	Gito l'ingrat	1992
Mozambique	Licínio Azevedo	Water war (documentary)	1995
		The Bridge	2001
		Disobedience (film)	2002
		Hands of Clay	2003
		The Demining Camp	2005
		The Great Bazaar	2006
		Night Lodgers	2007
		The Island of The Spirits	2010
Brazil	Luciana Hees	The Blue Salon	2011
Niger	Moustapha Alassane	Women Cars Villas Money	1972
		Toula ou Le génie des eaux	1973
Niger	Oumarou Ganda	Saitane	1973
		The Exiled	1980
Ivory Coast	Roger Gnoan M'Bala	Ablakon	1986
		Bouka (film)	1988
		The Dipri	2009
		The Niambwa People	2009
Sweden	Solveig Nordlund	Nélio's Story	1998
Portugal	Teresa Prata	Terra Sonâmbula	2007

Films and Filmmakers Film distributed by Portuguese Marfilmes

External links

• www.marfilmes.com
• Marfilmes at IMDb