A somewhat-humorous look at the city of Dakar, its people, architecture, politics, social behavior, and even the white French tourists.
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.
A penniless, fast-thinking musician buys a lottery ticket which he glues to his back door, in hopes of eventually retrieving his instrument from his exasperating landlady. The ticket wins, and our hero begins a harrowing odyssey throughout his shanty town, carrying the door on his shoulder all the time.
A forty-year-old woman refuses to give into the stigma of unwed motherhood and climbs the ladder of success in a male-dominated field.
A money order from a relative in Paris throws the life of a Senegalese family man out of order. He deals with corruption, greed, problematic family members, the locals and the changing from his traditional way of living to a more modern one.
A corrupt politician is cursed with impotence on the night of his third wedding after embezzling 100 tons of rice.
Alex Grant, nicknamed Aggro, obtains a job as a seizeman -- a repossession agent.
A young interracial couple playfully discharges the disapproval of a nosy citizen.
A young girl eagerly anticipates meeting the man of her dreams.
When a Jamaican sprinter is disqualified from the Olympic Games, he enlists the help of a dishonored coach to start the first Jamaican Bobsled Team.
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.
A single street vendor disguises herself for a dance contest, and pits her enemies against each other.
This comedic tale is about your best friends becoming your worst enemies, your girlfriend leaving you, owing money to the court, and then and only then do you get real vexx!
Romie and Pack are best friends who dream of becoming mechanics and escaping their jobs as security guards. They’ve been saving their salaries and plan to make a down payment on a garage in their village of Pickletons. But their efforts are challenged on all sides: by their loving but eccentric families, a violent drug dealer, a charity collector and a still-obsessed ex-girlfriend. The boys will have to go to extreme measures to keep their dream alive.
A Texas girl vacations in Barbados and meets the love of her life, Seth Bovell. An economic crisis hits the island, and the two are unable to find new jobs. Falling behind in rent and unable to pay bills, the frustrated Millenials decide to take matters into their own hands and become a pair of twisted Robin Hood-vigilantes, scamming criminals for their own personal gain. Will they get away with their schemes?
On a normal morning in Accra, the FOKN BOIS (rapping duo M3NSA and Wanlov the Kubolor) wake up and plan to go clubbing with some lady friends after chasing an evasive debtor for their money. After getting the money, they set off to blow it off on food, partying and women with hilarious and dramatic consequences.
After her mother pressures her to find a man, a young career woman persuades a work colleague to pose as her boyfriend for a family event.
The neighbourhood troublemaker and a police officer on his first day on duty, reluctantly team up in order to escape Port-of-Spain during the first day of the 1990 attempted coup. They trip over each other’s personalities as they stumble to escape the chaos filled streets of the capital.
Trapped in a life that has been decided for him by his father, Jeffrey, an accountant at a large oil company, hides his passion for calypso music. His dead grandfather, a calypso icon of the 1950’s, transforms him through a box of old clothes and records. With new-found charisma, Jeffrey breaks free, defying race and class boundaries and winning the heart of an edgy, carefree girl named Kala.
Bartholomew, a retired civil servant, takes a leisurely drive downtown, where Shanice, mistakes his car for a taxi. After much resistance, he agrees to take her to her destination. Along the way, they encounter a wide diversity of Trinidadian characters.
Yearning for a better life, a single mother with a passion for cooking gets a shot at greatness when her son enters her into a top reality cooking show.
Chipo discovers an affair her husband is having with a young mistress and meets her behind his back. They develop a friendship and embark on a plan to punish him.
A security guard's obsession with pornography affects his sexual performance with a young woman.
Melvin, a British author living in America returns home to London for Christmas to introduce his American fiancée Lisa to his eccentric British-Caribbean family. Their relationship is put to the test as she discovers the world her fiancé has left behind.
Three friends sit in a bar to cool off as they discuss their various experiences living abroad as opposed to what they thought life would be before leaving their home country.
The story of a nightclub toilet attendant in a fictional club based on the Shimmy Club in Glasgow. Her conflicted journey is spliced with flashbacks to the toilets of the Shrine nightclub in Lagos, Nigeria, where her younger self dreams of becoming a dancer in the revolutionary band of the late Nigerian musician, Fela Kuti.
Yas and Dom, two twenty-somethings both reeling from bad break-ups, connect over the course of an eventful day in South London - helping each other deal with their nightmare exes, and potentially restoring their faith in romance.
An ethnic Indian family is expelled from Idi Amin's Uganda in 1972 and lives in Mississippi 17 years later. The dad sues Uganda to get his property back. The grown daughter falls in love with a Black man.
Set during the 1950s on a British-ruled Caribbean island, this drama deals with local politics, interracial relationships, social inequality, racism, adultery, and murder.
A mild-mannered doctor is trained in the art of ass-kicking commando vengeance by a no-nonsense ghetto kid named Wesley Snipes.
A fascinating revisionist perspective on Albert Schweitzer, Noble Peace Prize winner and secular saint of the colonial era. This film begins to rewrite the history of colonialism from the point of view of the colonized.
Finding Hubby follows the adventures of 35-year-old Oyin Clegg and her friends Toke and Gloria as they kiss the many frogs in the quest to find their prince. In the process, they are forced to ask important questions about their friendship, love and life ultimately asking - Finding Hubby or Finding Happy?
After falling victim to a scam, a desperate man races against the clock as he attempts to plan a luxurious destination wedding for an important investor.
Ready to pop the question to his girlfriend, a young man finds his plans for a romantic dinner interrupted when his overdramatic ex shows up uninvited.
An investment banker returns to Nigeria and falls in love with a friend's sister, despite his family's plan for him to marry a politician's daughter.
Genaro gets a job at a resort in hopes of marrying an American woman and moving to New York in search of a better life. He meets a tourist called Martha and everything seems going according to plan, until her boyfriend shows up.
Genaro is still working as a Sanky Panky, to the dismay of his girlfriend. Things will get tricky when a strange and powerful Italian family arrives at the hotel, and Genaro must take care of the Mamma.
Genaro, Chelo and Carlitos finally reach their goal of leaving the Dominican Republic in search of a visa, but in Puerto Rico they still can't stop getting in trouble.
A Nigerian woman and an Indian man won't let cultural differences get in the way of their romance.
David lives in a neighborhood with "only orderly people" and rich parents. He has been in a relationship with his girlfriend Naomi for a few years. But one day David spots a beautiful Black woman. He decides to give up his relationship with Naomi, to find a new girl from a different neighborhood.
In her next film, Barbie would like to wear the belt that Kimpa Vita wore when she was burned in 1706. She travels to Kinshasa to get one. There, she rediscovers the story of Kimpa Vita, the Kongo Empire prophet that many have called the African Joan of Arc.
Antigua’s first feature film is a romcom that tells the story of Lovelyanne ‘Luv” Davies, who returns from Canada to Antigua and her struggles to adjust to life on a small island. It follows her professional turmoil and personal drama, including being caught in an unexpected love triangle.
