# Marfilmes > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Marfilmes > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Marfilmes.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marfilmes > Source revision: 1273102557 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{no footnotes|date=February 2012}} '''Marfilmes''' is a Portuguese distributor specialized in [Portuguese](/source/Portuguese_language)-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](/source/R%C3%A1dio_e_Televis%C3%A3o_de_Portugal) (RTP), the state Portuguese television. == African films distributed by Marfilmes == {| class="wikitable" ! Country ! Director ! Films ! Year |- |{{GBR}}|| [Amy Hardie](/source/Amy_Hardie) and [Arthur Howes](/source/Arthur_Howes) ||''[Kafi's Story](/source/Kafi's_Story)''||1989 |- |{{CPV}}|| Ana Ramos Lisboa ||''[Amílcar Cabral](/source/Am%C3%ADlcar_Cabral_(documentary))''||2001 |- |{{GBR}}||[Arthur Howes](/source/Arthur_Howes) ||''[Nuba Conversations](/source/Nuba_Conversations)''||2000 |- |{{FRA}}|| Christian Lajoumard ||''Children of Noma''||2005 |- |{{MLI}}||[Falaba Issa Traoré](/source/Falaba_Issa_Traor%C3%A9) ||''[Bamunan](/source/Bamunan)''||1990 |- |{{PRT}}||[Fernando Vendrell](/source/Fernando_Vendrell) ||''Light Drops''||2002 |- |rowspan="2"|{{GNB}}||rowspan="2"|[Flora Gomes](/source/Flora_Gomes) ||''[Mortu Nega](/source/Mortu_Nega)''||1988 |- |''[The Blue Eyes of Yonta](/source/The_Blue_Eyes_of_Yonta)''||1992 |- |rowspan="3"|{{PRT}} and {{AGO}}||rowspan="3"|[Inês Gonçalves](/source/In%C3%AAs_Gon%C3%A7alves) and [Kiluanje Liberdade](/source/Kiluanje_Liberdade)||''Hope The Pitanga Cherries Grow - Tales of Luanda''||2007 |- |''Tchiloli, Masks and Myths''||2009 |- |''[Luanda, The Music Factory](/source/Luanda%2C_The_Music_Factory)''||2009 |- |{{MOZ}}|| Isabel Noronha ||''Ngwenya, The Crocodile''||2007 |- |{{COG}}||[Jean-Michel Tchissoukou](/source/Jean-Michel_Tchissoukou) ||''The Wrestlers''||1982 |- |rowspan="4"|{{CMR}}||rowspan="4"|[Jean-Pierre Dikongué Pipa](/source/Jean-Pierre_Dikongu%C3%A9_Pipa)||[Muna Moto](/source/Muna_Moto)||1975 |- |{{Lang|fr|[Le prix de la liberté](/source/Le_prix_de_la_libert%C3%A9)}}||1978 |- |''Funny Stories and Funny People''||1983 |- |''[Badiaga](/source/Badiaga)''||1987 |- |{{PRT}}||[Jorge António](/source/Jorge_Ant%C3%B3nio) ||''Other Moves''||2003 |- |{{CPV}}|| Júlio Silvão Tavares ||''[Batuque, the Soul of a People](/source/Batuque%2C_the_Soul_of_a_People)''||2007 |- |{{GBR}}|| [Karen Boswall](/source/Karen_Boswall) ||''[Marrabenta Stories](/source/Marrabenta_Stories)''||2004 |- |{{CIV}}||[Kozoloa Yeo](/source/Kozoloa_Yeo) ||''[Petanqui](/source/Petanqui)''||1983 |- |{{CPV}}|| Leão Lopes ||''[The Island of Contenda](/source/The_Island_of_Contenda)''||1995 |- |{{BDI}}||[Léonce Ngabo](/source/L%C3%A9once_Ngabo) ||''[Gito l'ingrat](/source/Gito_l'ingrat)''||1992 |- |rowspan="8"|{{MOZ}}||rowspan="8"|[Licínio Azevedo](/source/Lic%C3%ADnio_Azevedo) ||''[The Water War](/source/The_Water_War)''||1995 |- |''The Bridge''||2001 |- |''[Disobedience](/source/Disobedience_(2003_film))''||2002 |- |''Hands of Clay''||2003 |- |''[The Demining Camp](/source/The_Demining_Camp)''||2005 |- |''[The Great Bazaar](/source/The_Great_Bazaar)''||2006 |- |''[Night Lodgers](/source/Night_Lodgers)''||2007 |- |''The Island of The Spirits''||2010 |- |{{BRA}}|| Luciana Hees ||''The Blue Salon''||2011 |- |rowspan="2"|{{NER}}||rowspan="2"|[Moustapha Alassane](/source/Moustapha_Alassane) ||''[Women Cars Villas Money](/source/Women_Cars_Villas_Money)''||1972 |- |''[Toula ou Le génie des eaux](/source/Toula_ou_Le_g%C3%A9nie_des_eaux)''||1973 |- |rowspan="2"|{{NER}}||rowspan="2"|[Oumarou Ganda](/source/Oumarou_Ganda) ||''Saitane''||1973 |- |''The Exiled''||1980 |- |rowspan="4"|{{CIV}}||rowspan="4"|[Roger Gnoan M'Bala](/source/Roger_Gnoan_M'Bala) ||''[Ablakon](/source/Ablakon)''||1986 |- |''[Bouka](/source/Bouka_(film))''||1988 |- |''The Dipri''||2009 |- |''The Niambwa People''||2009 |- |{{SWE}}||[Solveig Nordlund](/source/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](/source/Alberto_Seixas_Santos)||''Gentle Morals''||1975 |- | [Alfred Ehrhardt](/source/Alfred_Ehrhardt)||''Portugal, A Country By The Sea''||1952 |- |rowspan="5"| [António da Cunha Telles](/source/Ant%C3%B3nio_da_Cunha_Telles)||''Besieged''||1970 |- |''My Friends''||1974 |- |''[Living On](/source/Living_On)''||1976 |- |''Pandora''||1993 |- |''Kiss Me''||2004 |- |rowspan="2"|[António de Macedo](/source/Ant%C3%B3nio_de_Macedo)||''[The Vows](/source/The_Vows)''||1972 |- |''Sunday Afternoon''||1965 |- | [Carlos Vilardebó](/source/Carlos_Vilardeb%C3%B3)||''The Enchanted Islands''||1965 |- | [Fernando Lopes](/source/Fernando_Lopes_(filmmaker))||''The Edge of Horizon''||1993 |- | [J. Ernesto de Sousa](/source/J._Ernesto_de_Sousa)||''The Puppeteer''||1962 |- |rowspan="2"|[João Botelho](/source/Jo%C3%A3o_Botelho)||''[Here on Earth](/source/Here_on_Earth_(1993_film))''||1993 |- |''The Northern Land''||2009 |- | [Joaquim Vieira](/source/Joaquim_Vieira)||''The Last Communist''||2005 |- | [Joaquim Vieira](/source/Joaquim_Vieira) e [Fernanda Bizarro](/source/Fernanda_Bizarro)||''Franco e Salazar - Iberian Brothers''||2004 |- | [Jom Tob Azulay](/source/Jom_Tob_Azulay)||''The Jew''||1995 |- | [Jorge Brum do Canto](/source/Jorge_Brum_do_Canto)||''The Song of The Earth''||1938 |- | [Jorge Paixão da Costa](/source/Jorge_Paix%C3%A3o_da_Costa)||''The Mystery of Sintra''||2007 |- | [Leandro Ferreira](/source/Leandro_Ferreira)||''The Ones That Came Back''||2002 |- |rowspan="5"|[Manuel Guimarães](/source/Manuel_Guimar%C3%A3es)||''The Circus''||1951 |- |Nazaré||1952 |- |''{{Not a typo|Lifes Adrift}}''||1956 |- |''[My Little Seamstress](/source/My_Little_Seamstress)''||1958 |- |''The Wheat And The Tares''||1965 |- | [Nicholas Oulman](/source/Nicholas_Oulman)||''[The man behind Amália](/source/The_man_behind_Am%C3%A1lia)''||2009 |- | [Perdigão Queiroga](/source/Perdig%C3%A3o_Queiroga)||''The Millionaire''||1962 |- |rowspan="2"|Ricardo Costa||''[Our Football](/source/Our_Football)''||1984 |- |''Mists''||2003 |- | [Rui Simões](/source/Rui_Sim%C3%B5es)||''If You Can Look See, If You Can See Notice''||2004 |- | [Solveig Nordlund](/source/Solveig_Nordlund)||''[Low-Flying Aircraft](/source/Aparelho_Voador_a_Baixa_Altitude)''||2001 |- | [Teresa Villaverde](/source/Teresa_Villaverde)||''In Favour of Light''||2003 |- | [Vicente Jorge Silva](/source/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 --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Marfilmes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marfilmes) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marfilmes?action=history)). 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