In the head of meets several Swiss or naturalized Swiss, Black or mixed-race people who evoke a sometimes painful personal experience marked by the violence of words heard on the street corner, condescending attitudes, discrimination at work or racist acts.
The black hedgehog is a racist confectionery on display in a bakery. This confectionery, denounced by an anti-racist association, brings to the surface a painful story of Afrodescendant people. To overcome the injunction to silence, the film imagines a space where all voices can be heard.
In a country of consensus denying its structural racism, Swiss black women share their most intimate traumas and identity quests and raise their voices.
Contract tells the compelling story of two African countries (Cape Verde and Sao Tome and Principe) forever linked by a history of poverty and slavery, and two people forever linked by the unbreakable bonds of family and love.
Documentary about Cuban pianist and singer Bola de Nieve, aka Ignácio Villa, black, gay, mystic, pro-revolution and, above all, musician, one of the Latin-American myths of the 20th Century.
Paulin Vieyra and his collaborator Mamadou Sarr explore the lives of Africans living in Paris.
Sadio's story is the classical heroes journey and and archetype for African football players. Blessed with exceptional talent, he sets out from his village to find his destiny in the world.
The inspiring story of women who fight for equality and against Islamic terrorism in one African nation.
In her film, 13-year-old Ndèye Fatou Fall tells how her life has been affected by profound changes that occurred in her village a few years before she was born.
Documentary footage of a Women’s Conference in Senegal.
The film is listed as a documentary on the Grenadian Revolution, traces Grenada’s early history, analyzes the impact of European colonialism and explains the evolution of modern Grenadian society.
An inside look at the Aruban lifestyle as we take you on a visual adventure where you get to experience the local perspective of the island.
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.
From as long as time, persons have been living on the streets, some of them as a result of mental health and others because they are not welcomed at home by relatives after spending times in prison or having been deported. The film shares the stories of five people living on the streets of Georgetown.
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.
An intimate look at post-revolution Libya through the eyes of an aspiring all-female soccer team, whose struggle to gain mainstream acceptance mirrors the broader challenges facing women in contemporary Libyan society.
Documentary look at the effects of globalization on Jamaican industry and agriculture.
Filmmaker Khalik Allah becomes immersed in Jamaica's neighboring worlds of charismatic holy men and equally charismatic prostitutes.
This short documentary takes a brief look at the creation and storied history of one of the world's most popular alcoholic beverages.
This documentary tells the story of Barbados' journey towards independence focusing on major events and the country's progression 50 years on. The perspectives captured in this film are from a range of educators, politicians, social commentators, musicians, and most importantly real Bajans.
The Prodigal Son retraces the lost history of the Orderson family, and the West Indian community who left the Caribbean in the late 1800’s as emancipated slaves, to settle in District Six, Cape Town.
The life of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah, a young Ghanaian man born with a severely deformed right leg, who today, against incalculable odds, is opening minds, hearts and doors-and effecting social and political change throughout his country.
A political documentary that exposes the never-before-seen, nitty-gritty of political electioneering in Africa. It captures the intrigues of political campaigns; the almost carnival-like atmosphere that is laced with fear of the unknown and the danger that lurks behind the scenes.
The epic story of Africa's most grueling mountain race, and the local athletes who risk all for glory. The winners will achieve lifelong fame, but nearly half of all runners will quit the race, conquered by Mt. Cameroon.
Sisters in Law is a fascinating look at the work of a courthouse in a small town in Cameroon, Central Africa. The tough-minded state prosecutor, Vera Ngassa and judge, Beatrice Ntuba, are helping women and children to find the courage to fight difficult cases of domestic violence and child abuse despite pressures from family and their community to remain silent.
Dande is an old Aruban custom when the Dande group goes door-to-door making music to bring prosperity for the new year. Filmmaker Cindy Kerseborn immerses herself in a world still unknown to the Netherlands. The Dande is hypnotically contagious. It makes you happy, even when you hear it for the first time.
The history of how Haiti won its independence, carrying out the first-ever successful slave rebellion.
A documentary on Caribbean people living as immigrants. It tells the story of second-generation Caribbean immigrants and the challenges they face in holding to their family heritage while embracing American culture.
A documentary film about Haitian vodou.
A journey in Haiti that takes us to different places in different ways, to meet people fighting and not giving up.
Haitian Song is an anthropological film about farmers in rural Haiti. The film follows Gustav and Zillmen and the everyday rituals that mark their lifestyle.
For centuries, the religion of Vodou has been thought of as sticking pins in dolls or witchcraft. It has been kept underground and practiced in secret, giving way too much misunderstanding and sensationalism.
The resilience of traditional African religions practiced in the United States.
An exploration of the exploitative and genocidal aspects of European colonialism, from America to Africa, and its impact on society today.
An award-winning documentary classic about the exploitation and foreign domination of the Haitian people.
The Spiritual Baptists of Trinidad have a common saying – “Those who have eyes to see, shall see”. It refers to their ability to see and access both the physical and spiritual realms. This film explores this way of seeing by comparing the physical, spiritual and ethnographic eye.
“A BETTER PLACE,” takes the viewer to five communities in Trinidad and Tobago. People are doing great things, charting their own course and inspiring others to do the same.
The first section of this two-part film highlights the precursors of the steelpan and the creation of the instrument until it gained international recognition in Britain in 1951.
People with kinky/curly hair have been the butt of every hair joke for centuries. Issues from discrimination to lost opportunities, and more take a toll on “naturals” globally. Sorf Hair explores the natural hair experience in Trinidad & Tobago, as people from all walks of life and with different hair textures reveal their stories and challenges.
This chronicles the Black Power uprising that took place in Trinidad & Tobago in 1970, and how the movement was influenced by Black activism in Canada and the US in the 1960s.
Historical footage from Rhodesia in the 1970's.
Propaganda film produced to document the Rhodesian conflict and birth of Zimbabwe.
Documentary footage of the last days of Rhodesia.
This insightful short documentary captures the activism of Marlene Green in Toronto around educating black youth and immigrant youth.
This extraordinary mini doc captures the life of activist Dudley Laws in Toronto.
This extraordinary mini doc captures the life of civil rights lawyer/ activist Charles Roach and his activism on immigration in Toronto in the 70s, 80s, and 90s.
A powerful short doc about the activism of the Honourable Rosie Douglas.
The extraordinary journey of Judith Craig as she bravely returns to Haiti to find her birth parents. From the poverty-stricken families who’ve given up a child, to the foreign families looking to adopt one, these disparate worlds collide.
A shocking short documentary that examines racism in the fashion industry.
A short film that reveals the buried history of a pioneering Black hockey league in Atlantic Canada.
A trip through Cuba, from the inner-city to the capital city, where a Flying Pigeon bike encourages the Cuban public to talk about their lives and the history of the country during the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Revolution.
A celebration of Cuba's eastern city of Santiago de Cuba and its Black and Afro-Cuban population-a place where colonial past and contemporary customs mingle.
Despite not seeing their father’s homeland until their sixth decade, the Galde family and their social position in Cuba has long been marked by their Haitianness – an identity they and their children negotiate in various ways throughout Mondesir’s generous and intimate documentary. Through moments of work, rest, and celebration, the film produces a deceptively profound portrait of a family, a neighbourhood, and a nation.
Filmmaker Mary Jane Doherty follows two students for three years in Cuba's National Ballet School.
Four vignettes about the lives of the Cuban people set during the pre-revolutionary era.
The film, recorded in Cuba 33 years after Shakur's exile, consists primarily of a personal interview with Assata herself on the day her mother died as she recounts her experience as a political prisoner in the United States.
Sponsored as a propaganda documentary to show how to sow coffee around Havana.
Rare footage from a 1970's film on institutional racism.
In a seminal, identity-defining film, filmmaker Stewart Kyasimire gathers together prominent black Scots from all generations to ask: what does it mean to be black and Scottish?
The story of the 900 Belizean lumberjacks who in 1942 left the tropical rainforests of British Honduras to help Britain fight fascism by felling trees in Scotland.
A rare behind-the-scenes access to Scottish social media sensation Bachala Mbunzama - aka Bash the Entertainer. He is loved by his three million followers and has a staggering tally of over three billion combined video views.
Hamza is the presenter and cameraman for Channel 4 ‘s documentary ‘Scotland: My Life in the Wild’ and Scotland: Escape to the Wilderness, in which he guided celebrity companions on journeys through western and eastern Scotland and the Highlands.
The activities of the Black Panther Party as its members fought for the freedom of imprisoned co-founder Huey P. Newton.
Exploring the transformation of Cassius Clay, World Heavyweight Champion, into international boxing icon and activist, Muhammad Ali.
A chronicle of New York's drag scene in the 1980s, focusing on balls, voguing, and the ambitions and dreams of those who gave the era its warmth and vitality.
Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House. Parts narrated by Samuel L. Jackson.
Gregorio Guerra migrated from Puerto Rico to New York in 1964. More than 40 years later, we catch a glimpse of his current life in Queens and his coping with a bad health diagnosis.
A trip through the diversity of Black and native Peruvian music.
The music and culture of Afro-Peruvians of the Pacific Coast, perhaps one of the most unknown in the Americas.
Afro-Peruvian Beats is a musical voyage that brings together international musicians Branko, Matias Aguayo and Dengue Dengue Dengue at the “Carnaval Negro” (Black Carnival) in Chincha, the largest black cultural event in Peru.
The documentary focuses on three extraordinary percussionists: Lalo Izquierdo, Juan Medrano Cotito, and Huevito Lobatón. We give adequate rein to their talent and it is abundantly clear that all three are very charismatic.
A documentary that uses performance, interviews, and a host’s narration to explore and illustrate the dynamic, colorful, and little known art forms of Afro-Peruvian music.
The residents of Capote narrate how Afro music and dance are part of the traditions and roots of the community. Likewise, the children and the youth reveal that they also wish to maintain this heritage.
Susana Baca is not only a champion in the performance and preservation of Afro-Peruvian heritage, but also an elegant singer whose shimmering voice sings of love, loss and life.
Set in the vibrant Peruvian town of El Carmen, this film highlights the people, town, and dance legacy of African descendants in Peru.
Christ Olsen Mickala, a young boxer, trains non-stop in the day and works at night to survive as best he can. At the same time, another fight begins or rather begins again in the presidential election. Is there some hope of democracy emerging?
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.
An exploration of how the indigenous history of SVG is being preserved.
“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.
The second in a series of shorts for National Geographic, intended for teaching and which explains the geography of the Atlantic Region of Costa Rica.
In Costa Rica, the myth endures that the population is majority white. Through a train journey, we’ll know migrant communities that historically have been marginalized and forgotten. Unveiling that its people not only have European origins, but also, Nicaraguan, Afro-descendant, and Indigenous.
At the bank of the ocean, a body grows between the sand and the concrete. Their dance guides us on a trip through the ancestral Afro-Mestize heritage and diverse ways of experiencing dance in the city of Puerto Limón.
In the equatorial forest of Congo Brazzaville and the Central African Republic, pygmies live. Over-exploitation and waste of resources have had a significant impact on the lives of Pygmies. The story is based on Mangala an old and wise voice of these disappearing people.
Tenrikyo, Tradition through Black Robe documents a number of emotionally sensitive cases inside the sacred walls of the common law court, as the untrained volunteer judges hand down sentences based on spiritual forms of retribution. The decisions are absolute, even if not everyone agrees with this pre-modern form of jurisprudence.
Bad Bunny's highly anticipated music video El Apagón segues to an 18-minute documentary called Aquí Vive Gente (People Live Here) by journalist, Bianca Graulau. Conozcán la triste realidad de Puerto Rico.
This film explores the mass sterilization of Puerto Rican women during the 1950s and 1960s.
For the last 30 years Pappy has been running unsuccessfully for Prime Minister of Dominica, each time gaining fewer votes than before. In 2014 he runs again, this time on a platform to legalise marijuana.
Igna, tells the story of the resilience of one-handed, yet epically unchallenged, Ignatius Mitchel, aka Igna. An unassuming father of four, volunteer marine teacher, environmental activist, and Dominica’s best boat mechanic.
Documentary footage of the Carnival celebration in Guinea-Bissau
1970s documentary film about Liberia during the presidency of William Tolbert.
Documentary charting the spirit, political beliefs, and actions of former President of Mozambique, Samora Machel.
The documentary compiles testimonies about the presence of Afro-descendants in Paraguay and addresses their origins, customs, traditions, destiny, and current situation.
Part 2/13 of an educational film produced in Canada that looks at the paternal aspect of colonialism.
Part 1/13 of an educational film produced that looks at the paternal aspect of colonialism.
Documentary footage of people riding a train from Sudan.
The ordeal of three Sudanese refugees -- Jon Bul Dau, Daniel Abul Pach and Panther Bior -- as they try to come to terms with the horrors they experienced in their homeland while adjusting to their new lives in the United States.
An exploration into the life of a Maroon community in the former Dutch colony of Suriname. Combining stories of African ancestral traditions and escaped slavery, a look at how the community's powerful ties to the land have become endangered.
This short describes the idea of African Socialism aka "Ujamaa" as a response to the challenge of development in terms of the pressures under which newly emerging nations labor and emphasizes the strength of working together for the benefit of their nation.
This program explores many of the problems facing this nation - poverty, sickness, education, and lack of trained manpower, and Tanzania's policy of non-alignment in the Cold War and its willing acceptance of foreign aid from both Free World and Communist Bloc countries.
A beautiful, inspiring, and bittersweet documentary film on language and childhood, following three Zambian children and their families over their first year of school, and asking: Does the future have to be in English?
The inspiring story of how the Afro-Bolivian community uses their music as a form of resistance and empowerment.
This intriguing documentary follows Afro-Bolivians in Cochabamba through their current day-to-day struggles, celebrations, and fight for visibility.
A film that unearths the hidden history of Black people in Argentina and their contributions to Argentine culture and society, from the slaves who fought in the revolutionary wars against Spain, to the contemporary struggles of Black Argentines against racism and marginalization.
Explores the expression of Tango's Africanness and the contribution of African cultures in the creation of the tango.
A documentary that captures the daily struggles of 15 youngsters moving within the informal economy of the Gambian tourism industry of sun, safari, and sex. With the lure of a better future just around the corner, do they try their luck abroad or find peace at home?
The life and activism of Jaha Dukureh, a Gambian anti-female genital mutilation campaigner who returns to her country of birth to confront the harmful tradition that she and 200 million women and girls have undergone globally.
Tiquan, A 13-year-old Antiguan, recounts bits of his daily life in his small village and community.
"Women In Politics" spotlights four women who presented themselves as candidates in the 2004 General Election in Antigua & Barbuda. This documentary chronicles their journey into the political arena in a series of interviews conducted in 2012.
In 2005 some members of the cast and crew got together to reflect on the "Mango Experience".
Sir Vivian Isaac Alexander Richards is a national hero and cricket icon. This documentary traces his "Road to Greatness".
