Africa Movies

Brussels, Béguinage church. Migrants organize a hunger strike to obtain papers. A man dies. Tunisia, Libya. A border camp of Choucha refugees...

Smith arrives in Dar es Salaam to tie up loose ends. He is helped by others on quests of their own.

Tamsir returns to Senegal after 17 years in Europe. His uncle gives him a patronage job in Dakar, virtually without duties. He visits his family's...

Thabo, Thabiso and Moalosi are young, attractive and deal openly with their HIV status. Nearly a third of the population in Lesotho is HIV positive.

Directed by François Woukoache.

Back from the US to his village in Niger, a man brings western outfits to his close friends, who immediately identify with cow-boys. A bloody western...

A Young South Sudanese girl struggles with temptations to complete university and secure a job that will cater for her and her brother....She gets...

African animals, including a lookout monkey, await with trepidation the arrival of big-game hunter Theodore Roosevelt.

Four students from the President's Leadership Circle at Frostburg State University journey to a remote village in Uganda to discover a radically...

Hereros Angola is a documentary film on the ethnic group of the same name. Originated from Bantu peoples, they maintain their millennial culture...

Through living ritual and stop motion animation, this short tells the story of stolen Africans who are thrown off a slave ship whilst sailing through...

The African pioneer Edouard Sailly created a distinctive poetic cinema. Here, he ponders the state of mind of a mourning fisherman.

Sexual decisions have deadly consequences. Can a small group of college students from Botswana challenge conventional wisdom about AIDS in Africa to...

Silent adventure film

A TV adaptation of the myth of Queen Pocou, a legendary heroine who sacrificed her own son to appease the hungry gods.

A reportage cross-cutting film about the development of Africa from 1900-1936, using archive footage and film material from earlier African...

Shot in New York, Cape Town, St Helena and the Atlantic Ocean, Sathima's Windsong, is a lyrical portrait of South African jazz singer, Sathima Bea...

A campaign is launched to prevent peasants from leaving the countryside for the city. The village tries to adapt the advice of the technicians for...