Africa Movies

A Westernized filmmaker, Issa, is a polygamist whose third wife Mimi is a doctor and high-profile health minister. Accustomed to a certain degree of...

The Year of Return is an initiative of the government of Ghana that is intended to encourage African diasporans to come to Africa to settle and...

A conversation between an older, HIV positive woman and her niece. The women talk about what it means to be a woman, mother, elderly and HIV positive...

The first filmmaker arrived in Equatorial Guinea in 1904. The last movie theatre closed in Malabo in the 1990s. In 2011, during the II African Film...

A study of the behavior of monkeys in the African jungle.

"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...

Tough Enough, is a 400 meter climbing route in the Tsaranoro Valley in Madagascar. This film shows the first climb by Arnaud Petit, Stéphanie...

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

At America's elite MIT, a Ghanaian alum follows four African students as they strive to graduate and become agents of change for their home countries...

Set in a small village in the Congo, where one of the villagers’ favorite pastimes is either to watch or to take part in a form of very...

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.

A journey back through Dacia Maraini's and her trips around the world with her close friends cinema director Pier Paolo Pasolini and opera singer...

Majid fights his own coach for Faiza's heart and the dream of playing international football.

Children and teenagers throw sticks, berries, and leaves at each other from perches in a large baobab tree.

Short Belgian documentary on volcanos in the former Belgian Congo

At a dusty crossroads in the desert city of Niamey, Niger, a crippled beggar is sitting in his wheelchair. He is Philippe Koudjina, who was once a...