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Before Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the "right attitude" toward the events in war torn Europe, and his search for a new home.

Plantation physician Afonso assigned to treat enslaved servants with fatal homesickness, Banzo, on an African island. Despite medical efforts, he struggles to heal their spirits on isolated hill, confronting existential challenge.

Clara's stepmother Francisca who had her mother killed and married her father, now plans to murder her husband. When Clara tries to tell the family, she is asked to leave the house. Francisca will now go after her one true love, Manel.

This is the story of a world whose territories and own frontiers were built by the slave trade. A world where violence, subjugation and profit imposed their routes.

Angular Phoenix proposes a speculative meeting between the Baron of Água Izé, the first nobleman in the Portuguese colonies of the 1800s who was of mixed European and African ancestry, and Maria Correia, the Black Princess of Príncipe Island in the 1700s. Reanimating them through the bodies of contemporary artists, the film uses dance, poetry and music to weave profound threads between the past and the present. Transcending space, time and language, their encounter wrestles with questions of culpability, power and the exploitation of both land and Black bodies.

Jorge, an ambitious young computer worker, diverts a large amount of money from the company where he works for his personal account. When his boss discovers threatens to kill him, if he does not receive the money back.

The fictional life of characters awakened from a series of 4 paintings, with their stories unveiled, secrets revealed.

A documentary by the Portuguese Government cinematographic mission to the first holiday cruise to the West African colonies, namely Guiné-Bissau, Cape Verde, San Tomé and Príncipe, and Angola.