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'''Marfilmes''' is a Portuguese distributor specialized in [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]]-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]] (RTP), the state Portuguese television.

== African films distributed by Marfilmes ==
{| class="wikitable"
! Country
! Director
! Films
! Year
|-
|{{GBR}}|| [[Amy Hardie]] and [[Arthur Howes]]        ||''[[Kafi's Story]]''||1989
|-
|{{CPV}}||  Ana Ramos Lisboa                              ||''[[Amílcar Cabral (documentary)|Amílcar Cabral]]''||2001
|-
|{{GBR}}||[[Arthur Howes]]                                   ||''[[Nuba Conversations]]''||2000
|-
|{{FRA}}|| Christian Lajoumard                            ||''Children of Noma''||2005
|-
|{{MLI}}||[[Falaba Issa Traoré]]                             ||''[[Bamunan]]''||1990
|-
|{{PRT}}||[[Fernando Vendrell]]                            ||''Light Drops''||2002
|-
|rowspan="2"|{{GNB}}||rowspan="2"|[[Flora Gomes]]              ||''[[Mortu Nega]]''||1988
|-
|''[[The Blue Eyes of Yonta]]''||1992
|-
|rowspan="3"|{{PRT}} and {{AGO}}||rowspan="3"|[[Inês Gonçalves]] and [[Kiluanje Liberdade]]||''Hope The Pitanga Cherries Grow - Tales of Luanda''||2007
|-
|''Tchiloli, Masks and Myths''||2009
|-
|''[[Luanda, The Music Factory]]''||2009
|-
|{{MOZ}}|| Isabel Noronha                                 ||''Ngwenya, The Crocodile''||2007
|-
|{{COG}}||[[Jean-Michel Tchissoukou]]              ||''The Wrestlers''||1982
|-
|rowspan="4"|{{CMR}}||rowspan="4"|[[Jean-Pierre Dikongué Pipa]]||[[Muna Moto]]||1975
|-
|{{Lang|fr|[[Le prix de la liberté]]}}||1978
|-
|''Funny Stories and Funny People''||1983
|-
|''[[Badiaga]]''||1987
|-
|{{PRT}}||[[Jorge António]]                            ||''Other Moves''||2003
|-
|{{CPV}}|| Júlio Silvão Tavares                       ||''[[Batuque, the Soul of a People]]''||2007
|-
|{{GBR}}|| [[Karen Boswall]]                               ||''[[Marrabenta Stories]]''||2004
|-
|{{CIV}}||[[Kozoloa Yeo]]                              ||''[[Petanqui]]''||1983
|-
|{{CPV}}|| Leão Lopes                                  ||''[[The Island of Contenda]]''||1995
|-
|{{BDI}}||[[Léonce Ngabo]]                             ||''[[Gito l'ingrat]]''||1992
|-
|rowspan="8"|{{MOZ}}||rowspan="8"|[[Licínio Azevedo]]              ||''[[The Water War]]''||1995
|-
|''The Bridge''||2001
|-
|''[[Disobedience (2003 film)|Disobedience]]''||2002
|-
|''Hands of Clay''||2003
|-
|''[[The Demining Camp]]''||2005
|-
|''[[The Great Bazaar]]''||2006
|-
|''[[Night Lodgers]]''||2007
|-
|''The Island of The Spirits''||2010
|-
|{{BRA}}|| Luciana Hees                                ||''The Blue Salon''||2011
|-
|rowspan="2"|{{NER}}||rowspan="2"|[[Moustapha Alassane]]           ||''[[Women Cars Villas Money]]''||1972
|-
|''[[Toula ou Le génie des eaux]]''||1973
|-
|rowspan="2"|{{NER}}||rowspan="2"|[[Oumarou Ganda]]                ||''Saitane''||1973
|-
|''The Exiled''||1980
|-
|rowspan="4"|{{CIV}}||rowspan="4"|[[Roger Gnoan M'Bala]]          ||''[[Ablakon]]''||1986
|-
|''[[Bouka (film)|Bouka]]''||1988
|-
|''The Dipri''||2009
|-
|''The Niambwa People''||2009
|-
|{{SWE}}||[[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]]||''Gentle Morals''||1975
|-
| [[Alfred Ehrhardt]]||''Portugal, A Country By The Sea''||1952
|-
|rowspan="5"| [[António da Cunha Telles]]||''Besieged''||1970
|-
|''My Friends''||1974
|-
|''[[Living On]]''||1976
|-
|''Pandora''||1993
|-
|''Kiss Me''||2004
|-
|rowspan="2"|[[António de Macedo]]||''[[The Vows]]''||1972
|-
|''Sunday Afternoon''||1965
|-
| [[Carlos Vilardebó]]||''The Enchanted Islands''||1965
|-
| [[Fernando Lopes (filmmaker)|Fernando Lopes]]||''The Edge of Horizon''||1993
|-
| [[J. Ernesto de Sousa]]||''The Puppeteer''||1962
|-
|rowspan="2"|[[João Botelho]]||''[[Here on Earth (1993 film)|Here on Earth]]''||1993
|-
|''The Northern Land''||2009
|-
| [[Joaquim Vieira]]||''The Last Communist''||2005
|-
| [[Joaquim Vieira]] e [[Fernanda Bizarro]]||''Franco e Salazar - Iberian Brothers''||2004
|-
| [[Jom Tob Azulay]]||''The Jew''||1995
|-
| [[Jorge Brum do Canto]]||''The Song of The Earth''||1938
|-
| [[Jorge Paixão da Costa]]||''The Mystery of Sintra''||2007
|-
| [[Leandro Ferreira]]||''The Ones That Came Back''||2002
|-
|rowspan="5"|[[Manuel Guimarães]]||''The Circus''||1951
|-
|Nazaré||1952
|-
|''{{Not a typo|Lifes Adrift}}''||1956
|-
|''[[My Little Seamstress]]''||1958
|-
|''The Wheat And The Tares''||1965
|-
| [[Nicholas Oulman]]||''[[The man behind Amália]]''||2009
|-
| [[Perdigão Queiroga]]||''The Millionaire''||1962
|-
|rowspan="2"|Ricardo Costa||''[[Our Football]]''||1984
|-
|''Mists''||2003
|-
| [[Rui Simões]]||''If You Can Look See, If You Can See Notice''||2004
|-
| [[Solveig Nordlund]]||''[[Aparelho Voador a Baixa Altitude|Low-Flying Aircraft]]''||2001
|-
| [[Teresa Villaverde]]||''In Favour of Light''||2003
|-
| [[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]


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[[Category:Film organisations in Portugal]]
[[Category:Cinema of Africa]]