Now streaming nationwide through Sunday as part of the African Diaspora International Film Festival’s Mother’s Day Virtual Series: Cape Verde, My Love (Cabo Verde, Nha Cretcheu), a landmark film by Cape Verdean filmmaker Ana Ramos Lisboa.

Praia, Cape Verde. Laura, Flavia and Bela are childhood friends. Each leads her own life and they sometimes meet to dance, dine and have fun. But one day the calm rivers of their lives break their banks and become wild torrents: Ricardo, Flavia's husband, rapes his pupil Indira, Laura's 13-year old eldest daughter. A film that takes a critical look at the lives of women in Cape Verde.

More than a social drama, Cape Verde, My Love occupies an important place in the history of Lusophone African cinema. Ana Ramos Lisboa is one of the first women filmmakers from Cape Verde to direct a feature-length fiction film, bringing to the screen perspectives and experiences rarely centered in the region’s cinema. Critics and festival programmers have noted the film’s significance for the way it opens space for women’s voices within a national cinema more often shaped by migration narratives and male-centered stories.

Born on the island of Brava, Ana Ramos Lisboa studied filmmaking in Paris after training in music and dramatic arts in West Africa. Her work combines social realism with attention to the emotional and cultural textures of everyday life in Cape Verde.

At once intimate and political, Cape Verde, My Love remains a powerful and courageous work about friendship, dignity, motherhood, and survival.

Streaming nationwide through Sunday only.

May 10 – 17

All films available for 48hrs after rental.

Streaming now: the African Diaspora International Film Festival’s Mother’s Day Virtual Series, available nationwide May 10–17.

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