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Foundation date 1 january 2000
Marfilmes est une société de distribution, basée à Lisbonne, spécialisée dans la diffusion de films et de documentaires lusophones avec un accent particulier sur la production africaine. Marfilmes a récemment considérablement enrichi son fonds de films classiques africains grâce à sa coopération avec l’African Film Library. Une restauration de qualité à partir des négatifs originaux lui permet de proposer de titres rares et précieux de différentes origines et langues de ce continent, tout en gardant un lien particulier avec la production portugaise.
Filmography of Marfilmes (25 films)
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Bouka (1988)
, 1h30Directed by Roger Gnoan M'Bala
Origin Ivoire
Genres Drama
Actors Akissi Delta
Bouka is a gifted young teenager. He lives with his parents in a village and forms with them a solid family. His father gives him a traditional education close to the nature. Unfortunately this happiness will be troubled by the brutal death of the father… Remained widow Bouka's mother will suffer the consequences of a relentless traditional principle. She becomes the new wife of the nephew of her late husband, Bouka doesn’t accepts this new condition of her mother. He suspects his stepfather to be involved in his father's death. He stops to go to school and organizes a gang in the forest.
Brief Illness (1987)
, 1h30Directed by Jean-Pierre Dikongué Pipa
Origin Cameroun
Genres Drama
Badiaga follows the rules of a classical tragedy: a three-year-old girl abandoned in a food market is sheltered and raised by a deaf and dumb vagrant. They develop a very strong bond. Badiaga dreams of becoming a famous singer and listens in total fascination to the artists who sing in the different cafes where she wanders.
Ablakon (1985)
, 1h30Directed by Roger Gnoan M'Bala
Origin Ivoire
Genres Drama
Une ville avec ses problèmes. Une bande d’enfants de la rue vit d’expédients et se débrouille avec fierté.La police les poursuit nuit et jour. Ils sont énergiques, débrouillards et pleins de vitalité.Rejetés par leurs parents et le monde en général, ils se sentent fortement solidaires.Ablakon est un personnage d’autre facture. Un délinquant adulte et un escroc.Affichant la pose d’un homme d’affaires prospère, il a trompé une quantité de gens.Voila qu’il retourne au village avec un complice pour persuader les crédules des attraits de la vie en ville. Éblouis par son comportement extravagant plusieurs jeunes le suivent. Mais ils comprendront vite leur erreur.
, 1h23Directed by Jean-Pierre Dikongué Pipa
Origin Cameroun
Genres Comedy
An African storyteller humorously and kindly talks about how some of his fellow countrymen are emulating the habits of white people and “Their stuff”. He thus presents several cases to prove his point. In one of them a supposed to be planter and businessman who underpays an employee gets framed by his own folks. A young boy jumps from a high tree with an open umbrella to copy the way the parachutists do in the city. A few other examples are as pathetic or comical. At the epilogue our storyteller finds himself being laughed at, at a bistro in Paris. The way he deals with the situation is kind and again humorous.
Petanqui (1983)
, 1h48Origin Ivoire
Genres Drama
Actors Sidiki Bakaba, Douta Seck, Zalika Souley, Thérèse Taba, Albertine N'Guessan
During the drought, Pétanqui - who is responsible for the distribution of food to the population - enjoys a good life, a nice house, lovers and an official car. His son returns from France with a Law degree, and although he does not approve his father’s lifestyle, he decides to defend him in court when he is accused of embezzlement.
The Price of Freedom (1978)
, 1h23Directed by Jean-Pierre Dikongué Pipa
Origin Cameroun
Genres Drama, Thriller
After refusing the sexual advances of her village chief and her father’s authority, a young woman runs away from home and goes to town. There she meets several members of her family and tries to start her life from scratches. She enrolls at a high school and makes new friends.
The Child of Another (1975)
, 1h29Directed by Jean-Pierre Dikongué Pipa
Origin Cameroun
Genres Drama, Romance
Ngando and Ndomé are in love. Ngando wishes to marry Ndomé but her family reminds him that the traditional dowry must be settled. Unfortunately, Ngando is poor and unable to fulfil the tradition. Ndomé is pregnant and bears his child. According to the village tradition, she must take a husband, at least one who can afford to pay the dowry. The villagers decide that Ndomé should marry Ngando’s uncle, who has already three sterile wives. In despair, the young man kidnaps his daughter upon the day of the traditional feast. An African Romeo and Juliet story.
Brandos Costumes (1975)
, 1h15Directed by Alberto Seixas Santos
Origin Portugal
Genres Drama
Actors Isabel de Castro
A portrait of the everyday life of a typical middle-class family in parallel with the fall of the Estado Novo, the 48-year dictatorship led by Salazar. The daughters' conflicts and frustrations with their parents, their grandmother and their maid find an obvious echo in the country's collective events. The Carnation Revolution is about to explode.
, 1h16Directed by Moustapha Alassane
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Historical
Actors Sotigui Kouyate, Damouré Zika
The gods have declared the drought of the country. There seems to be no hope. A holy man summoned by the king requires the sacrifice of a young woman to put an end to their anger. A young man in love decides to go in search of water to save the girl from a tragic end, but when he returns with good news it's too late: the genie had his satisfaction and Toula has already disappeared in the holy swamp.
Women Cars Villas Money (1972)
, 1h2Directed by Moustapha Alassane
Origin Niger
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Sotigui Kouyate, Zalika Souley
Ali is a modest civil servant who enjoys a pleasant life in town. One day, upon being forced by his parents to marry a woman he doesn't want, Ali is dragged into a vortex composed by “Women (Femmes), Cars (Voitures), Villas, Money (Argent)” all of which, in Niger, stand for social success. Longing for an increasingly luxurious way of life, in order to support habits he himself created, Ali is forced to steal and is arrested. When everyone else abandons him, his first wife reveals her loyalty and awaits his release.