Africa Movies

Short Belgian documentary on volcanos in the former Belgian Congo

A magician seeks vengeance upon the man who paralyzed him and the illegitimate daughter he sired with the magician's wife.

In Africa in the fifties, during the Mau-Mau war, young Patricia's friendship with a lion she raised for years.

The photographic record of an African expedition led by producer-explorer Armand Denis and his (very) photogenic and camera-toting wife Michaela, who...

A three-part study that introduces audiences to the celebrated Martinican author Aimé Césaire, who coined the term "négritude"...

Once a little African boy got a letter. In the letter he found a snowflake made of paper.

Mueda was a massacre. The name is that of the village in Northern Mozambique where in 1960 it took place. The Portuguese colonial regime did the...

The rivers of Africa bring life and abundance to their inhabitants, but they can also be the arena for some of nature's greatest challenges and...

A filmmaker witnesses an act of racist police violence in Paris. He discusses with a friend whether and how he should make a film out of this.

Ibogaine is a plant extract that stops drug addiction. In this documentary, a 34-year-old heroin addict undergoes ibogaine therapy with Dr Martin...

When Hanna Herold from Namibia receives the news of her father's death, it is a double shock for her: she had previously lived in the belief that her...

In Namibia, conservationist Maria Diekmann found herself on the frontline of the battle to save these wanted animals after unexpectedly becoming a...

A lost orphan boy and a giant elephant team up to take down an elephant poaching syndicate.

The story of Kenyan athlete David Rudisha, the greatest 800m runner the world has ever seen, and his unusual coach, the Irish Catholic missionary...

The story of the freed female hostages of Boko Haram, detailing their lives in captivity and since their release.

A con man on the run in Africa aids a minister's daughter by helping lead a local tribe to their new homeland.

Back from the US to his village in Niger, a man brings Ameican Western outfits to his close friends, who immediately identify with cowboys. A bloody...

Juju Stories tackles juju in contemporary Lagos through three stories. In Love Potion, by Omonua, an unmarried woman agrees to use juju to find...

In the Mossi culture, one of the rites attending the birth of a child and its induction as a new member of the community involves the burial of the...

Paul, a mercenary in Africa, decides that he can no longer work for the Organization because of their brutal tactics. But the evil Organization...