Africa Movies

Praia, Cape Verde. Laura, Flavia and Bela are childhood friends. Each leads her own life and they sometimes meet to dance, dine and have fun. But one...

A marauding band of black terrorists hold the inhabitants of a tiny desert settlement hostage. They murder most of the settlers, but spare a...

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

Shout Gladi Gladi is a documentary about hope. It tells the story of one woman's quest to cure fistula and save mother's lives in Africa. Shot in...

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

A young student from a family which considers itself "progressive" cannot marry the boy she loves as he comes from the caste of the smiths who are...

Directed by Ahmed Rachedi.

The story of Pastor Lucy and her husband Duncan Ndegwa, who began feeding and sheltering children from the streets of Nairobi, Kenya in 1996.

Directed by Ahmed Bedjaoui et al.

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...

Follows in an unconventional way the journey of 'ISH', a former Miami based rapper, who traveled to Africa to visit family. Little did he know that...

"Tubabs" is a nickname for foreigners, especially white ones, in the West African country of Gambia. In this documentary filmed by Mary Flannery, a...

Tradition and AIDS in Africa. What to do when the respect of tradition is at odds with the community's health?

A reportage cross-cutting film about the development of Africa from 1900-1936, using archive footage and film material from earlier African...

A musical trip through southern Africa to the tunes of the post-apartheid generation. Kwaito music originated in the 1950's in the dusty streets of...