{{no footnotes|date=February 2012}} '''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 == {| class="wikitable" ! Country ! Director ! Films ! Year |- |{{GBR}}|| Amy Hardie and Arthur Howes ||''Kafi's Story''||1989 |- |{{CPV}}|| Ana Ramos Lisboa ||''Amílcar Cabral''||2001 |- |{{GBR}}||Arthur Howes ||''Nuba Conversations''||2000 |- |{{FRA}}|| Christian Lajoumard ||''Children of Noma''||2005 |- |{{MLI}}||Falaba Issa Traoré ||''Bamunan''||1990 |- |{{PRT}}||Fernando Vendrell ||''Light Drops''||2002 |- |rowspan="2"|{{GNB}}||rowspan="2"|Flora Gomes ||''Mortu Nega''||1988 |- |''The Blue Eyes of Yonta''||1992 |- |rowspan="3"|{{PRT}} and {{AGO}}||rowspan="3"|Inês Gonçalves and Kiluanje Liberdade||''Hope The Pitanga Cherries Grow - Tales of Luanda''||2007 |- |''Tchiloli, Masks and Myths''||2009 |- |''Luanda, The Music Factory''||2009 |- |{{MOZ}}|| Isabel Noronha ||''Ngwenya, The Crocodile''||2007 |- |{{COG}}||Jean-Michel Tchissoukou ||''The Wrestlers''||1982 |- |rowspan="4"|{{CMR}}||rowspan="4"|Jean-Pierre Dikongué Pipa||Muna Moto||1975 |- |{{Lang|fr|Le prix de la liberté}}||1978 |- |''Funny Stories and Funny People''||1983 |- |''Badiaga''||1987 |- |{{PRT}}||Jorge António ||''Other Moves''||2003 |- |{{CPV}}|| Júlio Silvão Tavares ||''Batuque, the Soul of a People''||2007 |- |{{GBR}}|| Karen Boswall ||''Marrabenta Stories''||2004 |- |{{CIV}}||Kozoloa Yeo ||''Petanqui''||1983 |- |{{CPV}}|| Leão Lopes ||''The Island of Contenda''||1995 |- |{{BDI}}||Léonce Ngabo ||''Gito l'ingrat''||1992 |- |rowspan="8"|{{MOZ}}||rowspan="8"|Licínio Azevedo ||''The Water War''||1995 |- |''The Bridge''||2001 |- |''Disobedience''||2002 |- |''Hands of Clay''||2003 |- |''The Demining Camp''||2005 |- |''The Great Bazaar''||2006 |- |''Night Lodgers''||2007 |- |''The Island of The Spirits''||2010 |- |{{BRA}}|| Luciana Hees ||''The Blue Salon''||2011 |- |rowspan="2"|{{NER}}||rowspan="2"|Moustapha Alassane ||''Women Cars Villas Money''||1972 |- |''Toula ou Le génie des eaux''||1973 |- |rowspan="2"|{{NER}}||rowspan="2"|Oumarou Ganda ||''Saitane''||1973 |- |''The Exiled''||1980 |- |rowspan="4"|{{CIV}}||rowspan="4"|Roger Gnoan M'Bala ||''Ablakon''||1986 |- |''Bouka''||1988 |- |''The Dipri''||2009 |- |''The Niambwa People''||2009 |- |{{SWE}}||Solveig Nordlund ||''Nélio's Story''||1998 |- |{{PRT}}|| Teresa Prata ||''Terra Sonâmbula''||2007 |}
== Films and Filmmakers Film distributed by Portuguese Marfilmes ==
{| class="wikitable" ! Director !! Films !! Year |- | Alberto Seixas Santos||''Gentle Morals''||1975 |- | Alfred Ehrhardt||''Portugal, A Country By The Sea''||1952 |- |rowspan="5"| António da Cunha Telles||''Besieged''||1970 |- |''My Friends''||1974 |- |''Living On''||1976 |- |''Pandora''||1993 |- |''Kiss Me''||2004 |- |rowspan="2"|António de Macedo||''The Vows''||1972 |- |''Sunday Afternoon''||1965 |- | Carlos Vilardebó||''The Enchanted Islands''||1965 |- | Fernando Lopes||''The Edge of Horizon''||1993 |- | J. Ernesto de Sousa||''The Puppeteer''||1962 |- |rowspan="2"|João Botelho||''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||''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 |- |rowspan="5"|Manuel Guimarães||''The Circus''||1951 |- |Nazaré||1952 |- |''{{Not a typo|Lifes Adrift}}''||1956 |- |''My Little Seamstress''||1958 |- |''The Wheat And The Tares''||1965 |- | Nicholas Oulman||''The man behind Amália''||2009 |- | Perdigão Queiroga||''The Millionaire''||1962 |- |rowspan="2"|Ricardo Costa||''Our Football''||1984 |- |''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 |}
==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110714033708/http://www.marfilmes.com/en/home/index.htm www.marfilmes.com] * [https://www.imdb.com/company/co0134716/ Marfilmes at IMDb]
Category:Film distributors Category:Film organisations in Portugal Category:Cinema of Africa