Africa Movies

A portrait of the mythical band Bembeya Jazz, which contributed to the heyday of Sekou Touré’s cultural revolution in Guinea. Created in...

Adapted from two legends of the Nyaneka people in southeastern Angola. Set during a time of famine, and with only two families surviving, the film...

Interweaving stories of Western collectors, Muslim traders, African artists and intellectuals, and the filmmakers themselves, the film focuses on a...

This beautiful film about the immigrant experience is a San Francisco film about Eritrea. Sephora Woldu plays "Sephora" who, like the director, is an...

A young manager of a factory encounters a man walking along a road who says his family traditionally are servants to the manager's family. The...

The Gangbé Brass Band, a musical group from Benin, sets out to conquer Lagos, capital of Nigeria.

"Cinq jours d’une vie" is about a young man, N'Tji, orphaned at an early age, who lives under the supervision of his uncle. He is sent to...

The film follows the rugby season of Uitenhage prop forward Zama Takayi - who plays for Progress Rugby club, the club that amalgamated the black...

A beautiful young woman organizes an expedition to Africa to search for a sacred skull that is worshiped by the locals.

Bejo, 12 years old, lives with his brother Mario, a sculptor. Having heard the news on the radio his dream is to see the Bissau carnival, but he has...

A USSR animated short adapted from one of Jomo Kenyatta's fables.

“La Sape” is a unique movement based in Congo that unites fashion-conscious men who are ready to splurge money they don’t really...

The ghost of a man who was innocently killed in a village for falling in love with the chief's daughter is out haunting for its killer for vengeance....

Silent adventure film

Documentary on Mozambican music, and the role it played in the country's rediscovering its national identity after centuries of colonial rule.