ABSTRACT
Lusophone cinemas are generally marginalized in discussions of African cinema. The very peculiar situation of Lusophone cinema in Africa overlaps with the specificities of African cinemas in an international context. African films are rarely present in the ‘global ethnic’ stage: and while there is some analysis that would ask for the anthropological and sociological knowledge transmitted, it is not reduced to it. This chapter discusses some Luso-African films using the new approach based on these key concepts in order to illustrate the possible shift in the appreciation of films as an artistic positioning on a world stage where linguistic and regional affiliations are characteristics among others. The aesthetics of the film are peculiar in an African context, but in its symbolic usage of colours and sound, the film could be closer to films by Marker or the Nouvelle Vague.
