"Amílcar" by Miguel Eek | Cape Verde Showcase | Festival DOCanarias

"Amílcar" by Miguel Eek | Cape Verde Showcase | Festival DOCanarias AMÍLCAR Miguel Eek / 87' / 2025 / Spain, Portugal, France, Sweden, Cape Verde *Canary Islands Premiere An agronomist, poet and visionary thinker, Amílcar Cabral led the anticolonial movement against Portugal in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde until his assassination in 1973. Human rights, utopias, interracial love, ambition, war and betrayal are the ingredients of this documentary, shot on 16mm and built upon previously unseen archival material and an imaginary journal that draws on Cabral's private writings. DIRECTION: Miguel Eek PRODUCTION: Javier del Álamo, Marie Dumoulin, Luis Correia, Mario Adamson, Natacha Ceuninck, Miguel Eek, Jaime Muguruza EDITING: Federico Delpero Bejar CINEMATOGRAPHY: João Pedro Plácido SOUND: Elsa Ferreira TRAILER: https://vimeo.com/1129877986 MIGUEL EEK Miguel Eek (Madrid, 1982) is a documentary filmmaker and producer. He graduated from ESCAC and completed a residency at Arcada University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki. His cinema focuses on social margins and...