Cinema of Equatorial Guinea

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.[6]

The voice-over of an anonymous Guinean exile who inherited a river when his father passed away, and who recalls, from the distant desert, childhood episodes, popular legends and old African beliefs, leading us into the turbulent past of Equatorial Guinea.

The film deals with an unfamiliar subject: the Spanish colonization of this African country and the political, religious and cultural legacy that emerges after the declaration of independence on October 12, 1968, from the blood-spattered times of Francisco Macías' dictatorship to the current regime of his nephew, Teodoro Obiang.[7]

The film 'Palmeras en la Nieve, starring Mario Casas and Adriana Ugarte, was filmed'[8]Clarence (Adriana Ugarte) accidentally discovers a letter forgotten for years that pushes her to travel from the quiet life in the mountains of Huesca to Bioko. Her goal de ella is to visit the land where her father de ella Jacobo (Alain Hernández) and her de ella uncle Kilian spent most of their youth, and thus try to solve family riddles and reveal the secrets of what happened. In the bowels of a territory as exuberant and seductive as it is dangerous, Clarence unearths the secret of an impossible love story set in turbulent historical circumstances whose consequences will reach the present.[9][10]

Teresa, Rocío and Yolanda are three teenage students with totally different lives, but with a friendship that unites them. Teresa is a young woman who is enthusiastic about street life, ... her best friend is Rocío, a good girl who is less interested in studies because she has everything. And finally, Yolanda is a young woman from a very humble family with sick parents, who takes the fact of studying very seriously to move forward with her future, and who advises her companions to take the right path.[11][12][13]

Arriving at a Guinean Christian mission, a young priest is told by his elder ones the story of Father Javier, another young missioner who restlessly fought to convert a villain not only for God's sake, but also for sentimental reasons.[14]

Equatorial Guinea became independent from Spain 50 years ago and is now one of the most isolated countries in Africa. We entered it accompanied by the most translated writer in the country, Juan Tomás Ávila Laure.[15][16][17][18]

The main character is studying in his house in Malabo when, suddenly, the power is cut. He tries to look for a candle, but he falls down because of the darkness. The light comes back and he can start to study again, but this does not last long. The power goes off again, the character tries to fix it, but he has an electric accident. When the light comes back on, he appears with "Rasta" hair and, a few seconds later, the power is cut for the third time.[19][20]It's Equatoguinean short animated comedy.

A young man wakes up one morning and receives a call from his girlfriend. They decide to meet in a bar. He goes there and starts to wait. He tries to reach her but she is off the network. He continues to call her but he cannot reach her. Time passes, he gets older and ends up dying. Twenty years pass, the network is restored and, from the cemetery, we hear the young girl on the phone looking for her boyfriend.

The first filmmaker arrived in Equatorial Guinea in 1904. The last movie theatre closed in Malabo in the 1990s. In 2011, during the II African Film Festival of Equatorial Guinea, the Marfil Movie Theatre reopened its doors. Florencio, Ángel and Estrada tells us how cinema has been, and is still, present in their lives.[21][22]