Amílcar is a feature-length poetic documentary essay on Amílcar Cabral (1924–1973), agronomist, poet, and revolutionary, and one of Africa’s most influential anti-colonial leaders. Through his political writings, poems, and private letters, the film re-imagines Cabral’s inner voice to guide viewers on a personal and historical journey, blending unpublished archives, Portuguese colonial films, and revolutionary Guinean footage with newly shot 16mm images. A meditative visual diary that evokes both the public figure and the private man: the visionary leader and the thinker in solitude.
CREW:
Director: Miguel Eek
Producer: Miguel Eek, Luis Correia, Marie Dumoulin
Cinematographer: João Pedro Plácido
Editor: Federico Delpero
Sound: Elsa Ferreira
Production
Mosaic Producciones
Director
Miguel Eek
Miguel Eek is a Spanish documentary filmmaker and producer. He graduated from ESCAC (Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya) and completed a residency at Arcada University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki.
His films focus on social margins, collective memory and formal experimentation, moving between close observation and essayistic cinema. Often the result of long processes of research and dialogue with their protagonists, his works develop a poetics that oscillates between testimony and political reflection, addressing themes such as identity, gender, historical memory, and cinema as a space for community encounter.
His films have been selected and awarded at more than fifty festivals worldwide. City of the Dead (2019) screened at some thirty festivals, including Fipadoc and Seminci, and received the City of Palma Award. The same year, his feature The First Woman (2020) had its world premiere in the First Appearance section of IDFA and went on to screen at more than twenty international festivals. His film, Burden (2024), co-produced by TV3 and Filmin, premiered at Fidba. Since 2019, he has also served as Artistic Director of the Majordocs Film Festival in Mallorca.Selected Filmography
Dryads (2026), Amílcar (2025), Burden (2024), Void Screens (2022), Coming Soon Last Days (2021), The First Woman (2020), City of the Dead (2019), Life and Death of an Architect (2017)
