Africa Movies

Documentary on Mozambican music, and the role it played in the country's rediscovering its national identity after centuries of colonial rule.

A mystical performance about the sea and the earth based on a Yoruba folk tale.

Mariama is the best student in her village and has a bright future. Her parents dream of sending her to America. But a predatory teacher and the...

This 1944 black and white silent film provides brief glimpses of the lifestyle among Kenya's white/European settlers during the Second World War.

A study of the behavior of monkeys in the African jungle.

A glimpse of life as seen through young people at a Zimbabwean children's home.

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

A race is on to save Gabon’s Moukalaba-Doudou National Park and the silverback gorillas that call it home. Once, this area was protected by a...

Through the story of a mason in Djenne, Komusa Tenapo, and his family, this documentary examines an African tradition of mud architecture in Mali....

The ghost of a man who was innocently killed in a village for falling in love with the chief's daughter is out haunting for its killer for vengeance....

Short documentary about the Sahara-dwelling Toubou, a tribe in which the women are treated as equals by the men.

On a journey to West Africa, award-winning documentarian Mathew Welsh fashions portraits of six 'middle class' Gambians - taking us beyond...

Climate, Water, Life and Land- Resilient Communities in East Africa

Africa, that huge drop of strange land that hangs from Europe, resembles in many ways that road that only takes the railway route teaching you the...

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

An undercover documentary film produced and directed by British filmmaker Dominic Brown, about the struggle of the indigenous Sahrawi people of...

Guangzhou, a.k.a. Canton, is southern China’s centuries-old trading port. Today the booming metropolis of 14 million is a mecca of mass...