AMILCAR
Details
2025 SP PT FR I 80’ I Documentary I Portuguese
Synopsis
Poet, agricultural engineer and revolutionary Amílcar Cabral was born in Guinea-Bissau to Cape Verdean parents. After studying in Portugal, he emerged as the charismatic leader of the anti-colonial struggle against Portuguese rule.
His poetry, letters to his two successive wives, and political pamphlets form the basis of a journal-like film narrative. Associative atmospheric images with a charged soundtrack are interwoven with police reports and archival footage. A layered portrait gradually emerges of a visionary who could be both diplomatic and ruthless.
As the dream of a free Guinea-Bissau and unity with Cape Verde draws ever closer, the threat also increases, not only from the Portuguese army and secret service, but also from undermining forces within Cabral’s own party. This culminates in the question: who was behind his assassination in 1973? A portrait encompassing interracial love, ambition, terror and betrayal.
Festivals
IDFA 2025 (Netherlands), FICX (Spain)
Credits
Directed by Miguel Eek
Produced by Virginia Galán, Mosaic Producciones (Spain);
Co-produced by Les Docs du Nord (France), IB3 Televisió de les Illes Balears;
With the support of: Institut d’Estudis Balearics, CNC, PROCIRE
Director’s Bio
Miguel Eek is a filmmaker born in Madrid in 1982. Raised between Mallorca, Stockholm and Barcelona, where he graduated in Documentary Filmmaking at the Cinema and Audiovisual School of Catalonia (ESCAC). He completed his training at the Arcada University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki and other workshops such as Eurodoc.
In 2008 he founded Mosaic, a production company specialized in documentary cinema that produces all his current work as well as that of other filmmakers.
His films have been shown at international festivals such as IDFA, Docaviv, DocEdge Seminci, Fipadoc, Doxa, Makedox, Atlàntida or Cinemed, where they have won a dozen international awards.
Miguel is a member of Eurodoc, Docma, APAIB and ACIB. Since 2019 he is the artistic director of MajorDocs.
Filmography
2020 THE FIRST WOMAN documentary, 77’.
2020 COMING SOON LAST DAYS documentary, 72’.
2019 CITY OF THE DEAD documentary, 52’, 61’.
2017 MAQUINA documentary, short
