Ruy Duarte de Carvalho

Most Popular Ruy Duarte de Carvalho Trailers

Total trailers found: 7

The Englishman's Papers Trailer (2024)

24 October 2024

Ruy Duarte de Carvalho, poet and novelist, finds out that his father left papers in the Namib desert that would help him shed light on a mystery that occurred in 1923.

Pedra Sozinha Não Sustém Panela Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

The confrontation between two visions of the world: that of the elders of Jau and that of the students of the Faculty of Arts in Lubango, in what is considered to be Ruy Duarte de Carvalho's most ethnographic cinema.

Balanço do Tempo na Cena de Angola Trailer (1982)

01 January 1982

A documentary in which Angolan laborers describe their working conditions under colonial rule.

O Kimbanda Kambia Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

Two meetings in 1978 with Kimbanda Kambia, a traditional healer in rural southern Angola. Kimbanda shows the place where he treats and prepares medicines, the women who help him with these preparations, and talks about his practice - how he treats cases of madness, epilepsy, spirit and witchcraft possession.

Nelisita Trailer (1983)

01 July 1983

Adapted from two legends of the Nyaneka people in southeastern Angola. Set during a time of famine, and with only two families surviving, the film charts the struggle of Nelisita, a young man who confronts the spirits with help from animals and his friends.

Feast of the Sacred Ox Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

Scenes from the three last days of the festival in which the population of the old Kingdom of Jau participate yearly.

The Islands' Message Trailer (1989)

01 September 1989

The journey of an intellectual Creole. Before returning from Lisbon to Luanda, he stops in the Cape Verde islands in search of his ethnic and cultural roots.