Luanda - Angolan film-maker and director, José Laplena, Friday in Luanda won the International Cinema Prize, in the documentary category with the movie entitled “Kinshasa Palace”.

The 75-minute documentary, competed with other eight foreign movies from South Africa, Portugal, Brazil and United Kingdom, which participated in the II International  Festival of Cinema (FICLUANDA).

José Laplena, who dedicated his trophy to God, said that the movie portrays aspects of his father's life, an Angolan who migrated to Kinshasa, DR Congo.

The long footage prize was attributed to an Ethiopian Haile Gerima, based in the United States.

In the international short running footage category, the trophy went to Portuguese José Salavisa who presented the film “Arena”, whereas the British Jon Blair won the special prize of jury.

The movie “A guerra do Kuduro”, by film-maker Henriques Narciso “Dito”, won the prize in the category of fiction production.

At the end of November 20-27 Gala, held at Tropical cinema in Luanda, the Culture minister, Rosa Cruz e Silva, said that the festival meets the expectations, either at organisational levels or in the quality of the films presented.