Africa Movies

Historical film in four scenes which retrace the returns, the progress and the outcome of the war of liberation in Algeria. The first painting, “The l...

A fantasy film, which mixes fact and fiction, based on director Michael Kohler's time living among the Samburu people of Kenya.

After the insurrection erupted in Libya in the spring of 2012, more than a million people flocked to neighboring Tunisia in search of a safe haven fro...

The destiny of women is irrevocably linked to blood. Between tradition and modernity, the female body has been marketed, honored, and mutilated.

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 Mari...

The film focuses on the positive side of Africa rarely seen. The film presents the cultural richness of Africa and explains ancient customs and tradit...

The film builds up a portrait of a great Sudanese film-maker, Gadalla Gubara. At eighty-seven, he is one of the pioneers of cinema in Africa. He has r...

A portrait of the mythical band Bembeya Jazz, which contributed to the heyday of Sekou Touré’s cultural revolution in Guinea. Created in 1961 in the h...

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

An American woman doctor comes to Tanzania to work at a hospital for the mentally disturbed, with her Tanzanian lover. There, she meets a sometimes ca...

Koumba is a brave boy, and a good son who works on a plantation. He leaves his native town of Ngounié to repay the dowry of his sister.

In the eighteenth century, in the Ashanti people's kingdom, which covers two-thirds of what is now Ghana, lived Princess Abla Pokou. A very influentia...

The French researcher Bertrand Monnet visits pirates in Nigeria and Somalia to learn how they make money from oil theft and kidnapping.

Led by Daoudi, a disenchanted architect, a group of Constantines return to their village in deep Algeria where a young man delivers to them words of b...

Directed by Mustapha Badie.

This documentary of repressive political realities in Cameroon begins with the 1990 publication of an open letter to President Biya calling for a nati...

Done in the style of an African folk tale, this film, a collaboration between European and African countries, is said to be among the most elaborate,...