Africa Movies

First ever Gambian feature film.

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...

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 powerful portrait of Africa's most widely acclaimed contemporary artist El Anatsui. It gives an insider's view of the artist's practice, the...

A conversation between an older, HIV positive woman and her niece. The women talk about what it means to be a woman, mother, elderly and HIV positive...

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

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....

Directed by François Woukoache.

An aging village chief entrenched in traditional Cameroonian ways clashes with his daughter. She was educated in France to help support the family,...

The emotional conflict of Africans in Paris.

We observe the animals in the wild. After watching the film, a series of individual observations remain in the memory, which, when placed in the...

Kandia "the gold voice of Manding", is the nickname given to Ibrahima Sory Kouyaté (1933 - 1977), which was the emblematic singer of...

Sick in Africa follows the true stories of several Mozambicans from the Yawo tribe who are ill, but searching for healing and answers.

In a fascinating geopolitical drama, Danish filmmaker Mik-Meyer closely follows Ravalomanana as he attempts to return from exile in South Africa to...

A film about a lion.

Shot in New York, Cape Town, St Helena and the Atlantic Ocean, Sathima's Windsong, is a lyrical portrait of South African jazz singer, Sathima Bea...

Without a Fight is a feature length documentary film that explores how soccer can facilitate social change in Kibera, one of Africa's largest slums....