Africa Movies

A black and a white woman meets in Dar es Salam because of their men, and starts a friendship, despite their different background.

A young man having omitted to make the ritual offerings of voodoo, suffers the wrath of the spirits.

A TV adaptation of the myth of Queen Pocou, a legendary heroine who sacrificed her own son to appease the hungry gods.

Bejo, 12 years old, lives with his brother Mario, a sculptor. Having heard the news on the radio his dream is to see the Bissau carnival, but he has...

A campaign is launched to prevent peasants from leaving the countryside for the city. The village tries to adapt the advice of the technicians for...

On an island where religion bars women from playing soccer, the Queens resist cultural norms and challenge local assumptions about Islam and gender...

Between 1983 and 1987, Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso and the home city of FESPACO, one of the most important Pan-African film festivals in...

A Luta Continua explains the military struggle of the Liberation Front of Mozambique (FRELIMO) against the Portuguese. Produced and narrated by...

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

"Cinq jours d’une vie" is about a young man, N'Tji, orphaned at an early age, who lives under the supervision of his uncle. He is sent to...

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.

Children and teenagers throw sticks, berries, and leaves at each other from perches in a large baobab tree.

Women from three separate Ju/'hoan bands have gathered at a mangetti grove at !O to play an intense game in which under-tones of social and personal...

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...

This film depicts a moment of flirtation between N!ai, the young wife of /Gunda, and her great-uncle /Ti!kay. The two share a "joking relationship,"...

Two prisoners, a white racist and a black man escape. They discover that the only way to survive is to bury their prejudice and rely on one another.

Thabo, Thabiso and Moalosi are young, attractive and deal openly with their HIV status. Nearly a third of the population in Lesotho is HIV positive.

Ebola hunters stomp out the Ebola virus.

Freedom, Nigeria's contribution to the 1957 Berlin Film Festival, was based on a play commissioned by the Moral Re-Armament Association. Based on a...