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.

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Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved t...

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A USSR animated short adapted from one of Jomo Kenyatta's fables.

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After a puritan youth, a young English woman discovers her sensuality in North-Africa.

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A gently humorous look at otherness and xenophobia in modern day German with this tale of a black Be...

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