# Marfilmes

Marfilmes is a Portuguese distributor specialized in Portuguese-speaking cinema from classics to moderns, dealing particularly with Portuguese-African speaking films. The company collaborated with the African Film Library and increased the scope of its titles to classical African films of different origins and languages.
Marfilmes has a large experience within Portuguese cinema, contributing to that the years of exclusive collaboration with Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP), 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 | 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 |
| Guinea-Bissau | Flora Gomes | The Blue Eyes of Yonta | 1992 |
| Portugal and Angola | Inês Gonçalves and Kiluanje Liberdade | Hope The Pitanga Cherries Grow - Tales of Luanda | 2007 |
| Portugal and Angola | Inês Gonçalves and Kiluanje Liberdade | Tchiloli, Masks and Myths | 2009 |
| Portugal and Angola | Inês Gonçalves and Kiluanje Liberdade | 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 |
| Cameroon | Jean-Pierre Dikongué Pipa | Le prix de la liberté | 1978 |
| Cameroon | Jean-Pierre Dikongué Pipa | Funny Stories and Funny People | 1983 |
| Cameroon | Jean-Pierre Dikongué Pipa | 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 | The Water War | 1995 |
| Mozambique | Licínio Azevedo | The Bridge | 2001 |
| Mozambique | Licínio Azevedo | Disobedience | 2002 |
| Mozambique | Licínio Azevedo | Hands of Clay | 2003 |
| Mozambique | Licínio Azevedo | The Demining Camp | 2005 |
| Mozambique | Licínio Azevedo | The Great Bazaar | 2006 |
| Mozambique | Licínio Azevedo | Night Lodgers | 2007 |
| Mozambique | Licínio Azevedo | The Island of The Spirits | 2010 |
| Brazil | Luciana Hees | The Blue Salon | 2011 |
| Niger | Moustapha Alassane | Women Cars Villas Money | 1972 |
| Niger | Moustapha Alassane | Toula ou Le génie des eaux | 1973 |
| Niger | Oumarou Ganda | Saitane | 1973 |
| Niger | Oumarou Ganda | The Exiled | 1980 |
| Ivory Coast | Roger Gnoan M'Bala | Ablakon | 1986 |
| Ivory Coast | Roger Gnoan M'Bala | Bouka | 1988 |
| Ivory Coast | Roger Gnoan M'Bala | The Dipri | 2009 |
| Ivory Coast | Roger Gnoan M'Bala | 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

| Director | Films | Year |
| Alberto Seixas Santos | Gentle Morals | 1975 |
| Alfred Ehrhardt | Portugal, A Country By The Sea | 1952 |
| António da Cunha Telles | Besieged | 1970 |
| António da Cunha Telles | My Friends | 1974 |
| António da Cunha Telles | Living On | 1976 |
| António da Cunha Telles | Pandora | 1993 |
| António da Cunha Telles | Kiss Me | 2004 |
| António de Macedo | The Vows | 1972 |
| António de Macedo | Sunday Afternoon | 1965 |
| Carlos Vilardebó | The Enchanted Islands | 1965 |
| Fernando Lopes | The Edge of Horizon | 1993 |
| J. Ernesto de Sousa | The Puppeteer | 1962 |
| João Botelho | Here on Earth | 1993 |
| João Botelho | The Northern Land | 2009 |
| Joaquim Vieira | The Last Communist | 2005 |
| Joaquim Vieira e Fernanda Bizarro | Franco e Salazar - Iberian Brothers | 2004 |
| Jom Tob Azulay | The Jew | 1995 |
| Jorge Brum do Canto | The Song of The Earth | 1938 |
| Jorge Paixão da Costa | The Mystery of Sintra | 2007 |
| Leandro Ferreira | The Ones That Came Back | 2002 |
| Manuel Guimarães | The Circus | 1951 |
| Manuel Guimarães | Nazaré | 1952 |
| Manuel Guimarães | Lifes Adrift | 1956 |
| Manuel Guimarães | My Little Seamstress | 1958 |
| Manuel Guimarães | The Wheat And The Tares | 1965 |
| Nicholas Oulman | The man behind Amália | 2009 |
| Perdigão Queiroga | The Millionaire | 1962 |
| Ricardo Costa | Our Football | 1984 |
| Ricardo Costa | Mists | 2003 |
| Rui Simões | If You Can Look See, If You Can See Notice | 2004 |
| Solveig Nordlund | Low-Flying Aircraft | 2001 |
| Teresa Villaverde | In Favour of Light | 2003 |
| Vicente Jorge Silva | The Unknown Islands | 2008 |