Africa Movies

Brussels, Béguinage church. Migrants organize a hunger strike to obtain papers. A man dies. Tunisia, Libya. A border camp of Choucha refugees...

A 1978 documentary about healthcare services in five locations in Nigeria.

Travelogue released on November 11th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Poet, agricultural engineer and revolutionary Amílcar Cabral was born in Guinea-Bissau to Cape Verdean parents. After studying in Portugal, he...

Tchai is the word used by Ju/'hoansi to describe getting together to dance and sing; n/um can be translated as medicine, or supernatural potency. In...

A famous hotel in Nairobi is about to close. People don't go to that hotel like before. Kakababu and Santu go to the hotel to find out the reason....

A three-part study that introduces audiences to the celebrated Martinican author Aimé Césaire, who coined the term "négritude"...

This shocking documentary reveals the plight of young Nigerians branded as witches.

Solveig is a recent widow with no children. In the early 1980s she sponsored a young orphan, Sibusiso, in the small kingdom of Eswatini in Southern...

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...

Alva receives news from her long-lost husband, Russell, and goes to Africa in search of him. There, she finds that her husband is being "held...

Portrait of Si Mohand U M'hand, an Algerian Amazigh poet from the end of the last century, whose tragic destiny was marked by wandering and revolt....

The story of an outsider seducing Ethiopian women.

1904, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

A film about the difficulty for even the most well-intentioned person to know and respect another culture. In this case, the problem is so acute that...

The transformations of the daily life of the Algerian people during the destructive French occupation, then during the war of liberation. While...

A documentary about a Danish-Nigerian family torn apart by geography, who are today trying to both comprehend and explain the choices they made that...