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Lusophone African Films

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The Lusophone African Films collection includes the following titles:

Fintar o Destino
A feature film about soccer dreams weighs the pros and cons of pursuing ambitions abroad or acceptance of life on the isolated islands of Cape Verde.
California Newsreel | 1998 | 77 minutes
The Hero
Winner, best foreign feature, the 2005 Sundance Film Festival
The Hero (O HerĂ³i) tells the story of Angola, a nation attempting to reconstruct itself after 40 continual years of anti-colonial and civil warfare, through the story of a veteran who has lost his leg, a prostitute who has lost a child and an orphaned boy.
California Newsreel | 2005 | 97 minutes

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