Orlando Pantera
- IndieLisboa 2025Audience Award
- IndieLisboa 2025IndieMusic Award
- Porto/Post/Doc 2025Transmission Audience Award
- FIPADOC 2026Official Selection
Synopsis
Orlando Pantera died at 33, in 2001, leaving behind a body of songs that changed the course of Cape Verdean music by returning it to the Afro-rooted traditions of his native Santiago. Catarina Alves Costa follows his daughter Darlene across the island, to the people and the places that shaped him, and lets a new generation of musicians — Princezito, Zul Alves, Mayra Andrade — sing what he left unfinished. Woven together with footage Pantera himself shot in 2000, the film is less a biography than an act of summoning: a composer called back through the voices he still inhabits.