Africa Movies

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

The implantation of African traders in Guangzhou is a recent phenomenon, on which Marie Voignier reports through her interlinking portraits of...

A doctor searches for the cure for nagana, the sleeping sickness caused by the tsetse fly.

This film presents a harsh critique of the Koranic teaching through the tragic story of a small talibé, student of a beggar.

On her first visit to East Africa, a young woman crosses paths with the Ranger charged with being her guide. They have something in common and when...

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

Christof Wackernagel, best known in Germany as an actor and former member of the Red Army Faction ("RAF") lives in Mali. In his compelling portrait,...

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...

Based on the book by Henning Mankell (Sweden), this story takes place in Mozambique and is about a young boy, Nelio, who loses his entire family...

Cancer specialist Dr. Michael Durant forms an unlikely bond with seven year old Sam and becomes desperate, willing to risk anything to save the...

A couple sets up an African game preserve, only to have British and Italian armies fight over the waterholes.

Machanic Manyeruke is the founder of gospel music in Zimbabwe—though, his influence reaches far beyond the borders of his African country....

A sorcerer (played by the director himself) controls all activities in a village. Manipulating the different parties, the sorcerer promises love,...

Kids from Brooklyn, NY housing projects try to change the world when they are paired with Sierra Leonean pen pals orphaned by a civil war.

A young woman preparing for her marriage desperately and courageously journeys to erase her past.

The story of Quincy Bosomfield who is the product of colonial education and has risen to become the district commissioner. In the process, he...

Le Vent des Aurès – the first road movie of Algerian cinema – describes the transformations of the daily life of the Algerian...

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.