Amilcar
by Miguel Eek

Spain, Portugal, France, Sweden, Cape Verde | 2025 | 87 min

Amilcar - Amilcar 3 - In Perspecte

Credits

Director: Miguel Eek

Country: Spain, Portugal, France, Sweden, Cape Verde

Year: 2025

Length: 87 min

Category: Documentary

Script: Alba Lombardía and Miguel Eek
Producers: Miguel Eek, Luis Correia, Marie Dumoulin,
Line Producers: Marta Castells, Virginia Galán, Javier del Álamo, Filipa Burmester, François Willig
Director of Photography: João Pedro Plácido
Editor: Federico Delpero
Sound Design: Elsa Ferreira

Awards
IDFA – Envision – Best Outstanding Artistic Contribution Award
Gijon IFF – Award For Best Editing
LUX Film Festival – 2030 award by Luxembourg aid & development
PlayDoc – Best International Film
Biografilm – Special Mention
Encounters – Best International Documentary
FIDADOC – Grand Prix Nouzha Drissi
Festivals
IDFA (World Premiere), Gijón International Film Festival, Moma – Directors Fortnight, CPH:Dox, Luxembourg City Film Festival, Biografilm, New African Film Festival (AFI Silver Theatre Washington, DC),Thessaloniki International Festival, Istanbul Film Festival, Dok.Fest München, San Francisco International Film Festival, Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG), Hong Kong International Film Festival, DocsBarcelona, Docudays UA, DOXA – Documentary Film Festival,Play Doc, FCAT (Festival de Cine Africano de Tarifa-Tánger), NYAFF (NY African Film Festival), Beldocs, Encounters (Jury Award Best Film), Mon Filmat, Innsbruck International Film Festival, FIDADOC, Atlantida IFF, Makedox, Dokufest Kosovo, Reykjavik IFF, Menorca Doc, DOCanarias, Mostra Front, Som Cine, Documental Sofia, Doclisboa, Kafuka African Film Festival Capo Verde IFF, Rio de Janeiro Film Festival, Pan African Film Festival Cannes, FIC Luanda, Porto/Post/Doc, ANALOGICA Bolzano, RIDM Montreal International Documentary Festival

Human rights, utopias, interracial love, ambition, war, and betrayal are the ingredients of this free portrait crafted with archival images and an imaginary diary in 16mm film. A cinematic documentary that expresses all the modernity of Cabral’s world vision.

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