Marfilmes is a Portuguese distributor specialized in 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

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Country Director Films Year
  United Kingdom Amy Hardie and Arthur Howes Kafi's Story 1989
  Cape Verde Ana Ramos Lisboa Amílcar Cabral 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 The Water War 1995
The Bridge 2001
Disobedience 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 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

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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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