Africa Movies

Sick in Africa follows the true stories of several Mozambicans from the Yawo tribe who are ill, but searching for healing and answers.

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

A black and a white woman meets in Dar es Salam because of their men, and starts a friendship, despite their different background.

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

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

On an island where religion bars women from playing soccer, the Queens resist cultural norms and challenge local assumptions about Islam and gender...

Between 1983 and 1987, Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso and the home city of FESPACO, one of the most important Pan-African film festivals in...

Upon his return to France, sergeant Bakary claims the bride he had chosen. But she refuses this imposed marriage.

"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...

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

Women from three separate Ju/'hoan bands have gathered at a mangetti grove at !O to play an intense game in which under-tones of social and personal...

This film depicts a moment of flirtation between N!ai, the young wife of /Gunda, and her great-uncle /Ti!kay. The two share a "joking relationship,"...

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.

Ebola hunters stomp out the Ebola virus.

Freedom, Nigeria's contribution to the 1957 Berlin Film Festival, was based on a play commissioned by the Moral Re-Armament Association. Based on a...

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

Between 1950 and 1958, John Marshall made four expeditions to film the Ju/'hoansi (a group of !Kung Bushmen) of the Nyae Nyae region of Namibia (then...

The folkloric group "Nzale," founded in 1979 in Bangui, practices a traditional dance called "M'baka M'Bokou," which means "strength" and is a symbol...

Short film based on a Yoruba folk tale.