Violence such as sexual assault continue to be a factor that inhibits women's full participation in public life and access to employment. But there is also the matter of denial of their existence as citizens of Angola, which manifests itself in the difficulty of accessing civil registry records. Recently, within our women's movement, We conducted a project in the municipality of Cubal where, out of a group of about 300 women, only two or three had identification cards.
Body
24.04.2026 | by Sizaltina Cutaia
By prioritizing an approach centered on people’s experiences, it presents itself as a humanising discipline that seeks to capture the nuances of everyday life, beyond the statistical cut-outs and social determinisms. Of course, there are structures, tendencies and politics that go beyond people’s will and that must be analysed (consider the processes of racialisation and precarisation), but a closer look at their strategies, dreams and aspirations allows us to understand the choices available to them within socially defined boundaries, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses. For this reason, this study takes specific localities in order to gain an understanding of the situation of Muslims in Sintra and does not claim to represent the Muslim population as a whole.
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23.04.2026 | by Raquel Carvalheira and José Mapril
How to embrace these unstable forms, breaking out of other times? To conclude, it is worth returning to the concept of “critical hospitality” mentioned by Brandstetter in the preface. Alexandra Balona puts this concept into practice through the creation of an essayistic methodology and a critical writing that works by approximation and through engagement with the artwork, seeking to remain hospitable to its intensity.
Stages
21.04.2026 | by Liliana Coutinho
Renewed uncertainty around US engagement, including signals of potential funding reductions, institutional disengagement, and a second withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, has reintroduced questions about the durability of global climate commitments.
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21.04.2026 | by Nelly Madegwa
Modern-day slavery is the lot reserved for Kenya’s youth by a government once invested in the education of the country’s young but now content to send them to foreign lands as labour exports.
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21.04.2026 | by Keith Ang'ana
There was also a clear intention of appropriation of the archives, especially the written sources. As Saidiya Hartman points out, for enslaved people, the archive is always an encounter with violence: they appear in the records only when they are bought, shipped or landed. It is never they who leave behind their own writings or their version of the story. It is always the oppressor, the enslaver, who writes. Therefore, this file is inevitably contaminated by this historical violence, and still existing on the present day. But I felt that I had the right to make it my own, to take from it whatever served the film’s purpose: to tell this story in a free, expanded and contemplative way.
Face to face
20.04.2026 | by Marta Lança
Africa also has the potential to position itself as a hub for renewable energy and sustainable finance. With vast solar and wind resources, expanding urban centres, and an increasingly digital financial sector, the continent could leapfrog towards a greener future if investment and regulation advance together.
I'll visit
07.04.2026 | by Paola D'Orazio
In this continuous movement, between emergence and disappearance, the sea becomes cyclical memory: it brings fragments back to shore, smooths them, disperses them again. Nothing is ever truly lost; everything returns transformed. So too the stories of the island, Taíno, African, Haitian, Dominican, are not erased, but rewritten in a rhythm that is not linear, but circular. Like the waves, advancing and retreating without ever ceasing, history persists. And in their coming and going, they hold what has been, what is, and what has yet to emerge.
I'll visit
23.03.2026 | by Carlotta Pisano
These practices were serious enough for the newly independent African nation of Ghana to lodge a legal complaint against Portugal before the International Labour Organisation in 1962, helping to expose the fallacy of Portuguese benevolence towards its black population (Wolfson et al., 2009). As such, Eusébio, falsely made into a symbol of a non-racist past, functions to soften colonial realities and to silence the everyday racism experienced by African and Afro-Portuguese figures, who could not speak up at the time, in contrast to the anti-racist activism of Vinícius Jr. today.
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11.03.2026 | by Andrew Nunes
Portugal did not begin the taking. It widened the road. The desert and the ocean became parallel corridors of the same long project. The Trans-Saharan slave trade would run for twelve centuries in total. It trafficked an estimated ten million people, and yet it is barely spoken of. In the West, it barely exists as a cultural fact at all.
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26.02.2026 | by Chinenye Egbuna Ikwuemesi
Dance Not Dance lets ghosts circulate in their truncated transience, leaving us with the task of tying up loose ends. Another of these ghosts is Valentim de Barros, who was admitted to the Miguel Bombarda Psychiatric Hospital by the fascists with a diagnosis of “homosexual pathology”. It is one of the several disabled bodies that the new dance has recovered in its affirmation of a becoming queer and becoming crip. But in these archaeologies, some absences are also felt.
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22.02.2026 | by Rui Eduardo Paes
The famine was, like José Vicente Lopes says, “Cape Verde`s holocaust”. The Portuguese colonial regime orchestrated this horrific crime by abandoning the islanders in various ways, even preventing them from implementing survival strategies. For example, it prohibited boats loaded with food sent by the Cape Verdean diaspora to help the starving people, to reach their destination.
Afroscreen
19.02.2026 | by Apolo de Carvalho
For more than 35 years, Serbian society has been in a state of continuous disintegration. Almost nothing functions as it should. The wealth that had been collectively produced during Yugoslav times, was systematically privatized, creating a narrow elite of multimillionaires and billionaires whose power is rooted almost entirely in the capture of public resources and state-funded projects.
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18.02.2026 | by Marijana Cvetković
Amélia’s grandchildren and great-grandchildren speak many languages, have different hair colours, and hold many different passports. They have lived a wide range of experiences. Yet they are all part of the same family. When they meet, they share a sense of belonging to something beyond words, categories, or distinctions. So what is this family identity? Who knows? Even the family members themselves offer many different answers to that question.
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10.02.2026 | by Avital Barak and Edgar Oliveira
The film’s fertile terrain lies in the interstitial spaces between li (here) and lá (there), in the liminal lives and livelihoods, between memory and present, between those who arrived and those born here but carrying another land with them, between a country that calls itself modern and the persistence of underserved informal settlements that persist — despite decades of promises of dignified and universal rehousing — as mirages on the periphery. Rather than an ethnographic outsider’s look, Ali, Aqui proposes a wandering story told from within, a community fiction rather than a docu-drama, based on the rhythms, languages, emotions, textures, pains, and humours of those who inhabit the community.
Afroscreen
17.11.2025 | by Pedro José-Marcellino aka P.J. Marcellino
It is this historical context of political exchanges and utopias that inspired Zineb Sedira to develop Standing Here Wondering Which Way To Go, a multimedia project that delves into emancipatory dreams, transnational networks and conviviality. Borrowing its title from a song performed by African-American singer Marion Williams at the Pan African Festival of Algiers, the exhibition pays homage to the spirit of solidarity and resistance of the global 1960s which was so present in newly independent Algeria. Divided into four ‘scenes’, the project also celebrates culture in its diverse forms as a vital tool for social mobilisation and political consciousness.
I'll visit
13.11.2025 | by Amanda Tavares
No seu acto final, Complô não poupa socos, mas vai com luvas de lã. De volta ao estúdio –– esse refúgio improvisado entre blocos de prédios algures na Margem Sul – pressentimos a mudança de tom. A raiva dá lugar à ternura, talvez porque a ternura sejá mais poderosa. Ghoya grava uma faixa para a companheira. A sua voz abranda, amacia. “Baby, nós merecíamos um filme,” ele diz.
Afroscreen
02.11.2025 | by Pedro José-Marcellino aka P.J. Marcellino
Cléo Diára signs a historic role here. Not as a token of diversity on a European poster, but because she carries in her the contradiction of her POV, never throwing it back at the viewer as pedagogy. She’s simply magnetic, sensitive, at times insolent, provocative; or as a NYFF text puts it, she “mixes strength, sensuality, and vulnerability” and stands out as the film’s emotional backbone. It’s no surprise she won the Best Actress Award in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section, a gesture of resonance for a Capeverdean-Portuguese actress working in a circuit where legitimacy is still a bareknuckle spar. Those New York critics went further: a “fierce” and “star-making” role. All true.
Afroscreen
26.10.2025 | by Pedro José-Marcellino aka P.J. Marcellino
These names are part of a list, whose same logic inspired another list composed of the names of several children from a Portuguese public school to be read by the Portuguese (neo) colonial-fascist party in Parliament, which exposed these same children to hatred and violence (in Portugal as in Palestine). The list I have partly copied above is a document, perhaps a list of those arriving in a slave ship, which the Portuguese filmmaker Dulce Fernandes included in her latest film, Tales of Oblivion.
Afroscreen
21.10.2025 | by Inês Beleza Barreiros
To understand Trinidad, there can be no fixed, predetermined “root identity” in the traditional, categorical sense. The island’s culture claims its right to opacity, resisting simplification, even while its core remains Creole. Too many people, too many cultures have met - and clashed - across its ports and borders. For this reason, Trinidad cannot be singular; it is plural, maternal. Like a mother, it tells stories, at first misunderstood by its children, yet always offering a lesson. Like a mother, it lets its children wander before calling them back to the tropics. This island is a birth of worlds.
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01.09.2025 | by Carlotta Pisano
