Africa Movies

Joseph, a dreamer addicted to gambling, believes it's his path to riches. His obsession strains his marriage to Akunna and puts their daughter's educa...

As children, a Mozambique native and a Portuguese colonialist were friends. Years have passed and Mozambique is fighting for its independence. Two chi...

In 1962, René Vautier, together with some Algerian friends, organised the audio-visual formation centre Ben Aknoun to encourage a "dialogue in images"...

A young man sits at a local restaurant with his friend: but he isn't paying attention to her as she speaks. This film visualizes his chaotic state of...

This excellent feature-length documentary - the story of the imperialist colonization of Africa - is a film about death. Its most shocking sequences d...

This special, behind-the-scenes film takes us on a trip to Mali to witness Amadou & Mariam at home and their musical encounter with legendary artist a...

Documentary film making at its best as it narrates very exotic and esoteric rituals of the primitive peoples of Africa.

Upon his father's sudden death, a talented medical student returns to his home village in Ghana to fight for his family's survival.

Set amid the magnificent scenery of the Kenyan bush, this safari adventure from 1954 depicts the many dangers faced by a group of British settlers in...

Short Belgian documentary on volcanos in the former Belgian Congo

Nature documentary about a young wildebeest in the wilderness of Africa. The gnu calf strays from the herd and comes upon a lioness that kidnaps it. I...

Two British soldiers in 1830s South Africa flee military discipline and join a group of Boers heading north on "the Great Trek." In between fighting o...

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 durin...

Yaguiné and Fodé, schoolboys who try in vain to find work to help their poor families. Lured by the symbols of Western affluence and power that surrou...

"Africa Light" - as white local citizens call Namibia. The name suggests romance, the beauty of nature and promises a life without any problems in a c...

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 invest...

How African artists have spread African culture all over the world, especially music, since the harsh years of decolonization, trying to offer a nicer...

Thomas Sankara, former president of Burkina Faso, was known as "the African Che", and became famous in Africa due to his innovative ideas, his devasta...

An African mother will do just about anything to protect her child. Bilaly is a simple peasant who is blind. He wants to “know” a woman before he dies...