Africa Movies

Two boys with different experiences and goals meet up in a sprawling African market. One is looking for a job, to get back what was stolen from him...

An Italian in East Africa having an affair with a coloured woman realises that his treatment of her is as tyrannical as more overt superior...

Directed by Mustapha Badie.

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

Cabascabo, a veteran of the French colonial army in Indochina, returns to his home town in Niger, acclaimed by friends and relatives. In fragmented...

An ethnographic film that documents the efforts of four !Kung men (also known as Ju/'hoansi or Bushmen) to hunt a giraffe in the Kalahari Desert of...

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...

At the outbreak of the Second World War, two friends, Mokrane and Menach, abruptly interrupt their studies and return to their remote native Kabylian...

A small craftsman disappears, his brother, a grocer, searches for him and… to his surprise, he finds a misappropriation of Humanitarian Aid!...

A doctor searches for the cure for nagana, the sleeping sickness caused by the tsetse fly.

On her first visit to East Africa, a young woman crosses paths with the Ranger charged with being her guide. They have something in common and when...

Famed explorer Lewis Cotlow leads a hunting and archaeological expedition into Africa.

A violent examination of male homosexuality in a time when it was considered taboo, where Ivano Staccioli and his lover engage in a self-destructive...

In 1880 South Africa, young Betsy has an adventure involving Zulu Tribesmen, Dutch Settlers, The Vortrekkers, and her older brother's romance of...

A woman blessed with magical powers by the gods and living in a place where you are forbidden to use them, teams up with a princess to summon the...

A man invites a woman to share his room in a hostel and gradually falls in love with her.

An attempted exposé of worldly violence using various scenes of graphic human and animal behaviors.

"Mammy Water" is mother sea, source of food. Jean Rouch filmed this short documentary in the Gulf of Guinea, in Ghana, where is held a colorful...

Successful model Samira Hashi makes an emotional return to Somalia, one of the most dangerous places in the world and the place she was born. Civil...