Marfilmes
Encyclopedia
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.
Marfilmes has a large experience within the Portuguese cinema, contributing to that the years of exclusive collaboration with RTP (Rádio e Televisão de Portugal)
Rádio e Televisão de Portugal
Rádio e Televisão de Portugal, S.A.,commonly known as RTP, is Portugal's public service broadcasting organization. It operates four terrestrial television channels and three national radio channels, as well as several satellite and cable offerings....
, the state Portuguese television.
African Film Directors distributed by Marfilmes
| Country | Director | Films | Year |
| Amy Hardie and Arthur Howes | Kafi's Story | 1989 | |
| Ana Ramos Lisboa | Amílcar Cabral | 2001 | |
| Arthur Howes | Nuba Conversations | 2000 | |
| Christian Lajoumard | Children of Noma | 2005 | |
| Falaba Issa Traoré Falaba Issa Traoré Falaba Issa Traoré was a Malian writer, comedian, playwright, and theatre and film director.Born in Bougouni, Traoré directed an amateur theater troupe before taking over direction of the regional troupe of Bamako between 1962 and 1968... |
Bamunan | 1990 | |
| Fernando Vendrell | Light Drops | 2002 | |
| Flora Gomes Flora Gomes Flora Gomes is a Bissau-Guinean film director. He was born in Cadique, Guinea-Bissau on 31 December, 1949 and after high school in Cuba, he decided to study film at the Cuban Film Institute in Havana.... |
Mortu Nega Mortu Nega Mortu Nega is a 1988 historic film by Flora Gomes, a director from Guinea-Bissau. Mortu Nega was Gomes' first feature-length film. This is the first docufiction, more precisely the first ethnofiction, from his country that shows, in an expressive and touching way, the experiences of the... |
1988 | |
| The Blue Eyes of Yonta | 1992 | ||
| and | Inês Gonçalves and Kiluanje Liberdade | Hope The Pitanga Cherries Grow - Tales of Luanda | 2007 |
| Tchiloli, Masks and Myths | 2009 | ||
| Luanda, The Music Factory | 2009 | ||
| Isabel Noronha | Ngwenya, The Crocodile | 2007 | |
| Jean-Michel Tchissoukou | The Wrestlers | 1982 | |
| Jean-Pierre Dikongué Pipa Jean-Pierre Dikongué Pipa Jean-Pierre Dikongué Pipa is a Cameroonian film director and writer. He produced Cameroon's first full-length feature film, Muna-Moto, in 1975... |
Muna Moto | 1975 | |
| The Price of Liberty | 1978 | ||
| Funny Stories and Funny People | 1983 | ||
| Badiaga | 1987 | ||
| Jorge António | Other Moves | 2003 | |
| Júlio Silvão Tavares | Batuque | 2007 | |
| Karen Boswall | Marrabenta Stories | 2004 | |
| Kozoloa Yeo | Pétanqui | 1983 | |
| Leão Lopes | The Island of Contenda | 1995 | |
| Léonce Ngabo | Gito, The Ungrateful | 1992 | |
| Licínio Azevedo | The Water War | 1995 | |
| The Bridge | 2001 | ||
| Desobedience | 2002 | ||
| Hands of Clay | 2003 | ||
| The Demining Camp | 2005 | ||
| The Great Bazaar | 2006 | ||
| Night Lodgers | 2007 | ||
| The Island of The Spirits | 2010 | ||
| Luciana Hees | The Blue Salon | 2011 | |
| Moustapha Alassane Moustapha Alassane -Biography:Born in 1942 in N’Dougou , Moustapha Alassane graduated in mechanics. However, in the Rouch IRSH in Niamey he learns the cinematographic technique and becomes one of its main researchers... |
Women Cars Villas Money | 1972 | |
| Toula, or The Genie of The Water | 1973 | ||
| Oumarou Ganda Oumarou Ganda Oumarou Ganda was a Nigerien director and actor who brought African cinema to international attention in the 1960s and 1970s.- Life :... |
Saitane | 1973 | |
| The Exiled | 1980 | ||
| Roger Gnoan M'Bala | Ablakon | 1986 | |
| Bouka | 1988 | ||
| The Dipri | 2009 | ||
| The Niambwa People | 2009 | ||
| Solveig Nordlund Solveig Nordlund -Biography:Nordlund took a in History of Arts in the University of Stockholm. In 1962, she meets Alberto Seixas Santos and her interest in cinema grows... |
Nélio's Story | 1998 | |
| Teresa Prata | Terra Sonâmbula | 2007 |
Films and Filmmakers Film distributed by Portuguese Marfilmes
| Director | Films | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Alberto Seixas Santos Alberto Seixas Santos -Biography:Alberto Jorge Seixas dos Santos was born on March 20, 1936 in Lisbon, Portugal. Studied Historical-philosophical Sciences in the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon. In 1958, he started to work as a film critic... |
Gentle Morals | 1975 |
| Alfred Ehrhardt | Portugal, A Country By The Sea | 1952 |
| António da Cunha Telles António da Cunha Telles António da Cunha Telles is a Portuguese film director and producer. He was born in Funchal.-Biography:António Cohen da Cunha Telles was born on February 26, 1935 in Funchal, Madeira. He studies Medicine in the University of Lisbon... |
Besieged | 1970 |
| My Friends | 1974 | |
| Living On | 1976 | |
| Pandora | 1993 | |
| Kiss Me | 2004 | |
| António de Macedo Antonio de Macedo Antonio de Macedo was first a filmmaker and later a writer, university professor and lecturer.He gave up from filmmaking in the nineties as he felt systematically excluded from the state support programs of the Portuguese Ministry of Culture, the only financial source for film production in... |
The Vows The Vows The Vows is a 1973 Portuguese drama film directed by António de Macedo. It was entered into the 1973 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Guida Maria - Maria do Mar* Sinde Filipe - Labareda* João Mota - José* Luís Santos - Salvador* J... |
1972 |
| Sunday Afternoon | 1965 | |
| Carlos Vilardebó | The Enchanted Islands | 1965 |
| Fernando Lopes Fernando Lopes (filmmaker) Fernando Lopes, GCIH is a Portuguese film director.-Filmography:*98 Octanas *Lá Fora *Delfim, O aka Dauphin, Le *Cinema *Gérard, Fotógrafo *Fio do Horizonte, O... |
The Edge of Horizon | 1993 |
| J. Ernesto de Sousa | The Puppeteer | 1962 |
| João Botelho João Botelho João Botelho is a Portuguese film director.He has directed and written the screenplays of numerous films. His films have won several awards... |
Here on Earth | 1993 |
| The Northern Land | 2009 | |
| Joaquim Vieira | The Last Communist | 2005 |
| Joaquim Vieira e Fernanda Bizarro | Franco e Salazar - Iberian Brothers | 2004 |
| Jom Tob Azulay Jom Tob Azulay Jom Tob Azulay, is a Brazilian ex-diplomat, producer, director, writer, director of photography and soundman. In 1975, he established himself as producer with his company A&B Productions Ltd., in Rio de Janeiro. Produced and directs shorts, documentaries and videos... |
The Jew | 1995 |
| Jorge Brum do Canto Jorge Brum do Canto Jorge Brum do Canto was a Portuguese film director.-Biography:Jorge Brum do Canto was born in Lisbon, on February 10, 1910, from a family with aristocratic Flemish and English roots. In Lisbon he attended high school and entered in the University of Lisbon, Faculty of Law but did not conclude his... |
The Song of The Earth | 1938 |
| Jorge Paixão da Costa | The Mystery of Sintra | 2007 |
| Leandro Ferreira Leandro Ferreira Leandro Ferreira is a Brazilian municipality located in the center of the state of Minas Gerais. Its population as of 2007 was 2,955 people living in a total area of . The city belongs to the meso-region of Central Mineira and to the micro-region of Bom Despacho... |
The Ones That Came Back | 2002 |
| Manuel Guimarães Manuel Guimarães -Biography:In 1931, Guimarães studied painting in the School of Fine Arts in Oporto. Started to work in 1936 as a theater scenographer, illustrator and cartoonist... |
The Circus | 1951 |
| Nazaré | 1952 | |
| Lifes Adrift | 1956 | |
| My Little Seamstress | 1958 | |
| The Wheat And The Tares | 1965 | |
| Perdigão Queiroga Perdigão Queiroga José Manuel Nobre Perdigão Queiroga , son with his sister Maria José of Joaquim José Perdigão Queiroga and second wife Mariana Nobre, was a Portuguese film producer and film director.He married Aida de las Nieves Villar y Trimiño José Manuel Nobre Perdigão Queiroga (Évora, Sé e São Pedro, June 12,... |
The Millionaire | 1962 |
| Ricardo Costa Ricardo Costa (filmmaker) Ricardo Costa is a Portuguese film director and producer.Most of his filmography consists of documentary films, many of them being contaminated by fiction... |
Our Football | 1984 |
| Mists Mists Mists , 2003, is a Portuguese feature-length film by Ricardo Costa.It is an auto-biography, a voyage to childhood. Shot with no state funds it is an art film. Formal simplicity – associated with a non conventional, sober and fluid narrative of time and human condition – is common to most of... |
2003 | |
| Rui Simões | If You Can Look See, If You Can See Notice | 2004 |
| Solveig Nordlund Solveig Nordlund -Biography:Nordlund took a in History of Arts in the University of Stockholm. In 1962, she meets Alberto Seixas Santos and her interest in cinema grows... |
Low-Flying Aircraft Low-Flying Aircraft Aparelho Voador a Baixa Altitude is a Portuguese film from Swedish director Solveig Nordlund. Its main actors are Miguel Guilherme and Margarida Marinho. The film was based on the short story "Low Flying Aircraft" by J.G... |
2001 |
| Teresa Villaverde Teresa Villaverde Teresa Villaverde is a Portuguese film director. Her film Os Mutantes was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.-Awards:... |
In Favour of Light | 2003 |
| Vicente Jorge Silva | The Unknown Islands | 2008 |