"Le colonialisme n’est pas une machine à penser, n’est pas un corps doué de raison. Il est la violence à l’état de nature et ne peut s’incliner que devant une plus grande violence" - Franz Fanon, Les Damnés de la Terre, 1961.

Au travers des textes de Fanon, Concerning Violence met en image des archives et plusieurs entretiens, retraçant ainsi l’histoire des peuples africains et de leurs luttes pour la liberté et l’indépendance.

La modernité du parti pris esthétique de Concerning Violence offre au public une nouvelle analyse des mécanismes du colonialisme, permettant ainsi une autre lecture des origines des conflits actuels.

After the South African Defense Force wrongfully declares young Recce Henk Viljoen dead behind enemy lines, it’s up to him alone to use every skill and tool in his arsenal to make it back to his grieving wife.

Kapusciński est un brillant journaliste polonais. Idéaliste et fervent défenseur des causes perdues et des révolutions, il finit par convaincre ses supérieurs de l’envoyer en Angola. Ce voyage en pleine guerre civile le change : parti journaliste, il revient écrivain.

Christian Erikson est l'un des démineurs les plus doués au monde. Il sauve des milliers de vies jusqu'au jour où son fils de onze ans est victime d'une mine antipersonnel. Accablé, anéanti, il ne souhaite plus exercer son métier. L'arrivée d'une experte en explosifs va lui rendre sa motivation : celle-ci enquête sur un complot visant à importer de toutes nouvelles armes aux États-Unis. Ensemble, ils vont tenter de mettre fin au complot.

RAI documentary filmed in 1996 about Angola, whose people, after more than ten years of anti-colonial struggle and twenty of civil war, still suffer due to the amount of active landmines scattered all over the country.

Cette bombe révolutionnaire de Sarah Maldoror raconte le réveil du mouvement indépendantiste angolais. Basé sur une histoire vraie, SAMBIZANGA suit une jeune femme alors qu'elle se dirige de la périphérie de Luanda vers le centre-ville à la recherche de son mari après son arrestation par les autorités portugaises - un incident qui contribuera finalement à déclencher un soulèvement national. Présentant un casting de non-professionnels - dont beaucoup étaient eux-mêmes impliqués dans la résistance anticoloniale - cette œuvre historique du cinéma politique honore le rôle essentiel des femmes, ainsi que les épreuves qu'elles endurent, dans la lutte mondiale pour la libération.

En 1995, pendant la guerre civile angolaise, Nayola part à la recherche de son mari disparu.

Sissako visits a war-torn Angola after thirty years of war in search of a friend and thereby through interviews reflects on the lost utopias of a generation of Africans who experienced the liberation struggles. His camera is witness to the dislocation and despair of those he encounters living in Angola, however he also discovers the resilient spirit of Africa and optimism for its future in unexpected ways.

Dans "Liberdade", un jeune homme souffrant d’impuissance sexuelle est bien décidé à braquer une pharmacie pour obtenir du Viagra.

Blood Diamonds is a made-for-TV documentary series, originally broadcast on the History Channel, that looks into the trade of diamonds which fund rebellions and wars in many African nations. The program focuses primarily on two nations: Sierra Leone and Angola. Diamonds which are traded for this purpose are known as blood diamonds.

A group of children, fleeing the war, is taken to Luanda accompanied by a nun. When they reach the aeroplane, 12-year-old N'Dala decides to leave the group and to reconnoitre the city. The nun then starts her unceasing quest for the missing boy. N'Dala, only carrying a textile bag and a doll made of wire, walks through the busy streets filled with people and traffic. Later he finds the tranquility of the island off the coast, where he meets the old fisherman Antonio, with whom he becomes friends. Not much later, he meets the lively, whimsical Zé, who is a little older than he is. N'Dala starts to experience the city and its inhabitants as increasingly forbidding and he would most like to return to the countryside from whence he came. Then he meets Joka, a fringe figure who persuades him to help with a robbery in exchange for money. With this film, Maria Joao Ganga wanted to provide a realistic sketch of the bitter political situation in Angola. One of her most important motivations ...

Alex Honnold est le grimpeur libre le plus accompli au monde. L'Angola est un pays d'Afrique du sud-ouest qui vient de sortir de 27 ans de guerre civile sanglante. Qu'est-ce qui réunit ces étranges compagnons de chambrée, vous demandez-vous ? Certains des rochers non escaladés les plus épiques au monde et une communauté qui a besoin d'aide pour éradiquer les mines anti-personnel encore cachées sous terre. Voici Alex Honnold en Angola, pour l'une des aventures les plus uniques de sa carrière de grimpeurs jusqu'alors.

Otelinda and Lutoy, married for almost 50 years, are reminded of the moments of greatest tension they experienced, in the Angolan civil war, when confronted with the images on the news about the war in Ukraine. Narrated by Otelinda, her story, we learn her story from the 25th of April, until the day she waited alone for her husband on the verge of misfortune, in Cabinda. Her narration is accompanied by the contrasting images of their daily lives in 2023, as well as the landscapes and people of the country where they now reside. Their relationship initially appears distant, but becomes closer towards the end of the narrative, through the memories of everything they suffered together.

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

A young jet pilot fighter Quim has great difficulty accepting that his recently born child is disabled. His mother advises him to see a witch doctor, but Quim refuses. Instead he looks for his former mistress Djamila. His mind is completely confused and he no longer can distinguish reality from fantasy. A metaphor of Angola after its independence.

Portrait du peuple angolais

Following the 1884–85 Berlin Conference resolution on the partition of Africa, the Portuguese army uses a talented ensign to register the effective occupation of the territory belonging to the Cuamato people, conquered in 1907, in the south of Angola. A STORY FROM AFRICA enlivens a rarely seen photographic archive through the tragic tale of Calipalula, the Cuamato nobleman essential to the unfolding of events in this Portuguese pacification campaign.

"CATANAS POINT - A Surf Documentary" portrays the reality of the sport of surfing in Angola and compares it with what surfing was like in Brazil from the 1980s to the present day.

Known for years as one of the most dangerous maximum-security prisons, Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola is the setting for one of the most moving concerts ever given by The Brooklyn Tabernacle Singers. Recorded live, this new DVD features a magnificent, full concert PLUS a powerful docu-video complete with inmate interviews and testimonies focusing on the amazing spiritual revival that is occurring within the prison.