Discoveries from Equatorial Guinea World Cinema

Mr. Cuchillas is back in the second part of the 'Limpiabotas' saga.

Maria Ada is a famous urban legend that tells the story of a teacher who died leaving two sons behind while his ghost occasionally comes to life trying to recover them. Oscar and Jose, two friends and former classmates, tell about the tragic ghost apparitions and their constant bickering with an albino boy. A friend from the same classroom could only see the ghost, because in Equatorial Guinea they say that albinos have four eyes.

Salvador is a rising star in the national boxing team of Equatorial Guinea. He embodies the chance for the African team to finally take part in the Olympics but has to struggle with a life of poverty with his girlfriend Luna and his own lack of discipline.

Based on a true story.

Esperanza and Sola, mother and daughter, make a living selling “aricó caliente” (cooked beans) in the streets of Bata. One good day, Mr. Jorge, a wealthy man, comes to see Esperanza wanting something more.

Roberto is a police officer in the city of Bata. He has an excellent reputation and an enviable track record, fighting crime, drug addiction, kidnappings, thefts and more. He moves to Malabo with his wife Olivia and his daughter Melany after Captain Mocache orders his transfer to the city in the hope of restoring law and order to its streets. But one of Roberto’s main challenges will be to resolve the conflict within his own family…

The world is a timeless and single organism, everything is animate, alive, inhabited by spirits you can talk to. This is how conscience is born and knowledge of the Sacred begins. The tropical jungle that runs along the Atlantic coast of Central Africa at Equatorial Guinea is the land of the ndowé, an ethnic group who understand the world as a set of invisible forces that interact with each other. According to the ndowé, there is an occult side to every element of reality and, for example, each plant has its own power, just as each person does. The nganga (witch doctor) is the mediator between the two realities, and the video show how he controls this whole universe of forces.