Marfilmes
Marfilmes is a Portuguese distributor specialized in the diffusion of Portuguese-speaking cinema from classics to moderns, dealing particularly with Portuguese-African speaking films. Recently, following an intense collaboration with the African Film Library opened the horizons of the company to classical African films of different origins and languages, Thanks to a careful restoration from the original negatives, she can now offer rare and precious titles from this continent that have not been seen for decades.
Marfilmes has a large experience within the Portuguese cinema, contributing to that the years of exclusive collaboration with RTP (Rádio e Televisão de Portugal), the state Portuguese television.
African films distributed by Marfilmes
| Country | Director | Films | Year |
 United Kingdom | Amy Hardie and Arthur Howes | Kafi's Story | 1989 |
 Cape Verde | Ana Ramos Lisboa | Amílcar Cabral (documentary) | 2001 |
| United Kingdom | Arthur Howes | Nuba Conversations | 2000 |
 France | Christian Lajoumard | Children of Noma | 2005 |
 Mali | Falaba Issa Traoré | Bamunan | 1990 |
 Portugal | Fernando Vendrell | Light Drops | 2002 |
 Guinea-Bissau | Flora Gomes | Mortu Nega | 1988 |
| The Blue Eyes of Yonta | 1992 | ||
Portugal and  Angola | Inês Gonçalves and Kiluanje Liberdade | Hope The Pitanga Cherries Grow - Tales of Luanda | 2007 |
| Tchiloli, Masks and Myths | 2009 | ||
| Luanda, The Music Factory | 2009 | ||
 Mozambique | Isabel Noronha | Ngwenya, The Crocodile | 2007 |
 Republic of the Congo | Jean-Michel Tchissoukou | The Wrestlers | 1982 |
 Cameroon | Jean-Pierre Dikongué Pipa | Muna Moto | 1975 |
| Le prix de la liberté | 1978 | ||
| Funny Stories and Funny People | 1983 | ||
| Badiaga | 1987 | ||
| Portugal | Jorge António | Other Moves | 2003 |
| Cape Verde | Júlio Silvão Tavares | Batuque, the Soul of a People | 2007 |
| United Kingdom | Karen Boswall | Marrabenta Stories | 2004 |
 Ivory Coast | Kozoloa Yeo | Petanqui | 1983 |
| Cape Verde | Leão Lopes | The Island of Contenda | 1995 |
 Burundi | Léonce Ngabo | Gito l'ingrat | 1992 |
| Mozambique | Licínio Azevedo | Water war (documentary) | 1995 |
| The Bridge | 2001 | ||
| Disobedience (film) | 2002 | ||
| Hands of Clay | 2003 | ||
| The Demining Camp | 2005 | ||
| The Great Bazaar | 2006 | ||
| Night Lodgers | 2007 | ||
| The Island of The Spirits | 2010 | ||
 Brazil | Luciana Hees | The Blue Salon | 2011 |
 Niger | Moustapha Alassane | Women Cars Villas Money | 1972 |
| Toula ou Le génie des eaux | 1973 | ||
| Niger | Oumarou Ganda | Saitane | 1973 |
| The Exiled | 1980 | ||
| Ivory Coast | Roger Gnoan M'Bala | Ablakon | 1986 |
| Bouka (film) | 1988 | ||
| The Dipri | 2009 | ||
| The Niambwa People | 2009 | ||
 Sweden | Solveig Nordlund | Nélio's Story | 1998 |
| Portugal | Teresa Prata | Terra Sonâmbula | 2007 |
Films and Filmmakers Film distributed by Portuguese Marfilmes
| Director | Films | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Alberto Seixas Santos | Gentle Morals | 1975 |
| Alfred Ehrhardt | Portugal, A Country By The Sea | 1952 |
| António da Cunha Telles | Besieged | 1970 |
| My Friends | 1974 | |
| Living On | 1976 | |
| Pandora | 1993 | |
| Kiss Me | 2004 | |
| António de Macedo | The Vows | 1972 |
| Sunday Afternoon | 1965 | |
| Carlos Vilardebó | The Enchanted Islands | 1965 |
| Fernando Lopes | The Edge of Horizon | 1993 |
| J. Ernesto de Sousa | The Puppeteer | 1962 |
| João Botelho | 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 |
| Manuel Guimarães | The Circus | 1951 |
| Nazaré | 1952 | |
| 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 |
| Ricardo Costa | Our Football | 1984 |
| Mists | 2003 | |
| Rui Simões | If You Can Look See, If You Can See Notice | 2004 |
| Solveig Nordlund | Low-Flying Aircraft | 2001 |
| Teresa Villaverde | In Favour of Light | 2003 |
| Vicente Jorge Silva | The Unknown Islands | 2008 |
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