2008 June

The Documentary "Koran im Kopf II" ("Qur’an in my head - part II") is ready.

In this new documentary Barino, a young german who converted to islam, tells Antonio Cascais that "there are moderate Muslims, but - at the other hand - Islam itself is not moderate". Also, because of the Islamic mandates that apostates, blasphemers, and heretics must be killed - mandates which are also rooted in the Qur'an and the teachings of Muhammad - these reformers are often threatened and sometimes actually killed by Muslims who believe they have strayed from the Noble Path...

broadcasting date: coming soon.


Please click on the image above to watch the trailer.



2008 April

The Documentary "Verzweifelt gesucht: Mari und Maddie" is broadcasted on WDR-TV on thursday, april, 17th, 22:00 (10:00 pm) and on friday, April, 18th, 10:35 am.



Please click on the image above to watch the trailer.

Further Information at : http://www.wdr.de  or  PDF German language

2008 January - April

António Cascais is working on two documentaries for german tv WDR.


2007 November - December, 23rd.

Antonio was working for Radio Despertar in Viana, near Luanda (Angola).
By the way he was speaking with people, learning, trying to understand the past, the present & the potencials in the future, investigating new stories...



Read Antonios Angola Diary Part 1   PDF German language ---> Dec. 5th)

Read Antonios Angola Diary Part 2   PDF German language Dec. 6th+7th )

Read Antonios Angola Diary Part 3   PDF German language Dec. 8th+9th )

Read Antonios Angola Diary Part 4   PDF German language Dec. 10th )

Read Antonios Angola Diary Part 5   PDF German language Dec. 11th +12th)


Thursday, November 29th.

During an investigation - filming and documenting life in "Iraque" - a quarter of Luanda, Angola - Antonio and Alexandre Neto Solombe (editor and journalist at Radio Despertar) were violently arrested nov. 28th, at 10.30 am and released after 5 hours.


The Union of the Journalists in Portugal refers to the violations of freedom of information in Angola...

Read the article at www.jornalistas.online.pt     /    PDF


Thursday, November30th.

Amnisty International refers to the illegal arrest of the Journalists Antonio Cascais and Alexandre Neto Solombe.

Read the full article at www.amnestyusa.org  /    PDF

Portuguese version of the amnesty international note on the illegal arrest of the two journalists Antonio Cascais and Alexandre Neto Solombe.    PDF


French version at www.amnesty.org  / PDF

A collection of links, articles and press releases about this incident:
http://www.portugaldiario.iol.pt     
(Article in the portuguese online newspaper "Portugal Diário" about the arrest of Antonio Cascais and his angolan coleague.)
(URL Portuguese language )
"Acoriano Oriental" (PDF Portuguese language )
"Portugal Diario" (PDF Portuguese language )
" Sol 1 " (PDF Portuguese language )
" Sol 2 " (PDF Portuguese language )
"Maos Livres" (PDF Portuguese language )
"Multipress" (Voice of America, Angola) (PDF Portuguese language )
"Multipress" II (PDF Portuguese language )
"AFP" (PDF German language )
"LUSA" (PDF Portuguese language )
"Netscape.de/news-newsticker" (PDF German language)
"hotelluanda.blogspot.com" (Blog Portuguese language )
"www.cpj.org/cases07/africa_cases_07" (PDF English language)


Wednesday, December 5th.

"Visão" - a portuguese News Magazine writes a story the illegal arrests of Antonio Cascais and Alexandre Neto Solombe...  PDF





Contact in Angola:
Until Dec, 23rd. you can reach him by e-mail: info@antoniocascais.net
or on his angolan mobile phone:                       ++244 92 7312608
 



September 2007:

António Cascais is working on a special report for german tv ARD on the role of
(catholic) religion in portuguese society.



Please click on the image above to watch the movie.


August 2007:

The Documentary "Koran im Kopf" ("Qur’an in my head") is broadcasted on
WDR-TV on monday, august, 6th, 22:45 (11:45 pm) and Phoenix-TV on monday, august, 27th, 01:30 pm & 06:00 pm.

If you missed watching the movie on TV - you can watch it


1. in four parts on youtube.com:

First Part
| Second Part | Third Part | Fourth Part

2. as a complete movie by downloading it from video.stage6.com


Download 1680636.divx
(200 MB-Videofile)
Please notice that it may take up to 30 seconds until the download starts)

If your Computer can´t play the DIVX-Format you can get a free player
by visiting http://www.videolan.org/ and following the downloadlink at the
topnavigation of the website.

Please report broken links to info@antoniocascais.net


Please click on the image above to watch a short excerpt. (2006)

For more information (in german Language) please click the following links :

WDR press release   // WDR press release (PDF)

article of the german news agency KNA on the film "Koran im Kopf / Qur'an in my head" ( Adobe-PDF / 1.8 Mb)

article in the german newspaper "Kölner Stadtanzeiger" on the film "Koran im Kopf" (Adobe-PDF)

article in the german online-newspaper "KSTA.de" on the film "Koran im Kopf" (Adobe-PDF)

Interview with Antonio Cascais about the documentary for german magazine "Publik Forum" (Adobe-PDF)

article in the german newspaper "Süddeutsche Zeitung " on the film "Koran im Kopf" (Adobe-PDF)

Interview with Antonio Cascais about the documentary for german Television WDR.de (Adobe-PDF)

article in the german online-newspaper "Welt-Online" on the film "Koran im Kopf" (Adobe-PDF)

press release of the protagonist of the film, Barino B., august, 7th,
2007 (german language / Adobe-PDF)
(If the link does not open in in your browser - please right-click the link and choose "save as" to save the PDF to your harddrive.)

Charge brought against Barino on 08.08.2007 (Adobe PDF)

(information found in the german blog "politicallyincorrect.de".
Antonio Cascais did not verify this information)

Reaction of Barino (13.10.2007): Read PDF

German radiostation "Deutschlandfunk" writes about the film "Koran im Kopf" (Adobe-PDF)

Article on Barino published by Antonio Cascais in the german online magazine "cultura21" // PDF

Interview with Antonio Cascais on Radio WDR2 (german language)

Interview with Antonio Cascais on Radio "Multikulti" (RBB)

Interview with Antonio Cascais on Radio WDR5

Radio Reportage (Deutschlandfunk) on the film "Koran im Kopf"


German TV station WDR interviews Barino B., the protagonist of the documentary "Qur'an in my head"

if the link is broken - you can read the full article here:
Converts in NRW-Germany : PDF

Please click the folowing link to watch a short excerpt of the film:
Converts in NRW-Germany: Flashmovie


February 2007:

Antonio Cascais reported for ARD TV (Europamagazin) and ARTE TV (arte culture) on the newest developments in the multicultural Lisbon music scene:

click here to watch a short excerpt

Antonio Cascais analyses a new documentary on the Lisbon Music scene
“Lusofonia, a (r)evolução”
Link: http://www.myspace.com/lusofoniaarevolucao )

February 2007:

Antonio Cascais reports for ARTE TV (arte info) on the referendum on abortion in Portugal
.

For more information please click the following links:
http://www.cne.pt/index.cfm?sec=0201000000&NewsID=94
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6158321.stm

January 2007:

The Documentary about Lello Bookshop in Oporto, Portugal is broadcasted in
arte-tv, 16.01.2007, 6.30 p.m.
For more information about the film please follow this link:  www.fersehbuero.de

click here to watch clip 1    (1.2 MB RealMedia)
(introduction of the main character, Mr. Antero Braga, the owner of Lello's Bookshop)
click here to watch clip 2  (5.6 MB RealMedia)
(introduction of one of the famous clients, musician Pedro Abrunhosa)
click here to watch clip 3  (5.1 MB RealMedia)
(introduction of expert, journalist and historian, Mr. Germano Silva)

click here to read an article about this documentary, published in the portuguese
newspaper "Público" (portuguese)   (MS-Word-Document)


click here to read another article, published in the portuguese
newspaper "Jornal de Notícias" (portuguese)


click her to read the treatment (german) (MS-Word-Document)