The film narrates the adventures of Badou Boy, a cheeky young man, as he travels through the streets of Dakar on the bus. Humorous depictions of the passengers, the police, whom they call “black dragon” in hot pursuit… A chronicle of everyday life in Dakar.
Senegalese villagers attempt a revolt against French incursions into tribal life.
Mory, a cowherd, and Anta, a university student, try to make money in order to go to Paris and leave their boring past behind.
In protest of forced conversion to Islam, the Ceddo kidnap King Demba War's daughter Princess Dior Yacine and hold her hostage.
A corrupt politician is cursed with impotence on the night of his third wedding after embezzling 100 tons of rice.
An intriguing coverage of the solemn event, recordings of Guinean songs, and archive footage of Cabral during the guerrilla war pay tribute to the political thinker and freedom fighter.
Presents the most important relationships and events in the lives of the Nuer, Nilotic people in Sudan and on the Ethiopian border.
Alex Grant, nicknamed Aggro, obtains a job as a seizeman -- a repossession agent.
A documentary that revisits the events of 1953 in Guyanese history, set to a series of poems by the great poet Martin Carter and against the backdrop of the Cold War.
Based on the stage play by director Trevor Rhone, "Smile Orange" takes a humorous and somewhat acidic view of the tourism business, mostly from the point of view of Ringo, a hustler, con man and waiter.
Wishing to become a successful Reggae singer, a young Jamaican man finds himself tied to corrupt record producers and drug pushers.
Horsemouth sets himself up in business selling records, but when gangsters steal his bike things start to turn nasty. As tensions build, he and friends plot to end the gangsters’ reign of terror and restore justice to the people of Kingston.
In a Cameroon village, the rigid customs governing courtship and marriage mean that a betrothed couple, though deeply in love, can be torn apart by the lack of a dowry and another man’s claiming the young woman—a rupture that sets the stage for a clash between a patriarchal society and a modern generation.
Inspired as much by Romeo and Juliet as by African legends, this film is a love story going on in ancestral times.
Documentary footage of the last days of Rhodesia.
Rare footage from a 1970's film on institutional racism.
At Los Angeles airport, magazine photographer Friday Foster witnesses an assassination attempt against billionaire Blake Tarr and is drawn into a murky political conspiracy.
The workers busy digging the mountain for the crossing of the Transgabonais Railway refuse the increase in the price of the buses which take them to the site and decide to go on strike, stirring up the tension between Albert Swami, the President's Chief of Staff, and Vice-President Ikapi, who is acting as the President.
This film evokes the custom O Bali which requires that when a man’s wife dies, she is replaced by a woman from her family.
Abraham is a young sculptor who does not quite understand the changing world in which he lives. During a visit to the village, he falls for the youngest wife of his uncle. They form a relationship but are discovered and Abraham flees to the city.
The history of the city of Libreville, capital of Gabon, from its birth to the present day. The different stages of its development. This film offers a return to the history of the colonization of Gabon and focuses in particular on situating the true context of the treaty signed in 1839.
Archival footage of the country in the year 1974.
“A man will land on the moon first, before a highway comes here, to Limón,” said the governor of the province of Limón in 1928.
This prophecy, which certainly happened, serves to reflect the delayed situation and economic and social marginalization that has distinguished this port city.
A Latin-American insurgent and a Black leader join forces to free an African nation. But they'll have to face a German mercenary aided by an American agent and a Portuguese advisor, all working for a mysterious woman.
In Ethiopia; there is a slow boiling of a feud between a wealthy Lord and a protester who feels he is mistreating his laborers. While the viewer gets to closely examine the culture, conversations, and lives of the locals who surround them.
1970s documentary film about Liberia during the presidency of William Tolbert.
Roy is a handsome Surinam man, who studies in Amsterdam. He hurriedly left his Dutch girlfriend Karina to visit his dying mom in Paramaribo. Back in his homeland, Roy soon becomes obsessed with his own country and it's culture. When he falls for the Hindu nurse Rubia, the conservative Hindu and Black communities are in revolt. One day Karina arrives in Surinam too.
A man is wrongfully arrested and tortured to death after he is suspected of being part of a revolutionary group.
