Two young femme fatales set out to rid a futuristic country of its corrupt and sex-obsessed powerful men.
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.
Documentary look at the effects of globalization on Jamaican industry and agriculture.
James is new in the hood, he can't help but follow his heart. He thinks of himself as tough, but there is a line that shouldn't be crossed. The line that the ghetto champion Tat-Molongo and his goons drew.
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.
This short documentary takes a brief look at the creation and storied history of one of the world's most popular alcoholic beverages.
A disabled Senegalese girl, Sili, decides to do a “boy’s job” and starts selling newspapers on the streets of Dakar. Sili does a great job, but the boys are not happy. The story tells her battle of daring to imagine what she can be and not caring about what anyone else thinks.
Throughout his life, Little Richard careened between religion, sex and rock 'n' roll. A treasure trove of archival material brings to life a revolutionary figure, one who reinvented popular music as the ultimate form of self-expression.
Love collides with social class and colonialism when Aba Appiah, born to privilege, falls in love with Joe Quansah, son of a fisherman. Her father, retired civil servant Kofi Appiah, has other plans for her and seeks to block their marriage.
A security guard's obsession with pornography affects his sexual performance with a young woman.
In 2005 some members of the cast and crew got together to reflect on the "Mango Experience".
Built on fragments of memory, the story of a young girl's intuitive struggle for survival in the malevolent political and social environment of Haiti under Papa Doc Duvalier in the 1960s.
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.
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.
Two young women - two stories. A rapper in Dakar and a wrestler in southern Senegal: Toussa and Emodj. A battle with words and visionary lyrics for a better society, and a fight with hard physical training for victory in the arena.
A news anchor reports that several people have gone missing, insinuating that these people have been kidnapped, and hinted at the work of a possible serial kidnapper in the Georgetown area. After she reports this news, she rushes home and is distraught by the missing persons and the usual procedures of life in a pandemic. Suddenly, she hears a noise that frightens her and checks to see what occurred. Unfortunately, the people that were missing were closer than many thought.
A lower middle-class family undergoes a series of challenging and profound changes, reinventing themselves and their family ties along the way.
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 young father struggles to find a way back home to his family amidst closed borders due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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.
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.
When a woman shelters a group of girls from suffering female genital mutilation, she starts a conflict that tears her village apart.
Kit, a British man of Vietnamese heritage, returns to Saigon for the first time in over 30 years after leaving the country with his parents, when he was six years old, at the end of the Vietnam War.
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.
A local MP is found murdered. Akeem is on the run and a mob from his very own community wants to show him how they feel.
Two fathers are at odds over their children's marriage, but what starts as a friendly family disagreement quickly devolves into the couple becoming pawns in a bitter dispute about tradition, progress and the nature of Islam.
A Nigerian woman and an Indian man won't let cultural differences get in the way of their romance.
Harare, 1990. Neria and Patrick, a married couple, both work and earn money in the city and live a modern egalitarian lifestyle. But when Patrick is killed in an accident, his family uses traditional Shona custom to deprive Neria of her property and children.
Presents the most important relationships and events in the lives of the Nuer, Nilotic people in Sudan and on the Ethiopian border.
Grace Valentine is a woman struggling to keep her personal and professional life from crumbling while her colleagues conspire against her.
Documentary footage of people riding a train from Sudan.
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.
A rasta musician meets a gospel singer when they both enter a music contest in Kingston. They fall for each other but are kept apart by the girl's father, a pastor, who wants her to marry into the church.
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.
In Miraflores, Cuba, the growing romance between Mario, a factory worker, and Yolanda, a schoolteacher, throws into relief the differences in their perspectives and values in Revolutionary Cuba.
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.
Tatiana is a smart and demure young woman who moves with her mother and brother to their aunt's house. In her new neighborhood, Tatiana meets Santiago, a quirky young man of Latin origin who can't take her diva attitude. When they discover secrets about each other, a beautiful love grows. This love, however, brings new challenges.
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.
Historical footage from Rhodesia in the 1970's.
Propaganda film produced to document the Rhodesian conflict and birth of Zimbabwe.
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.
Papa Machete explores the esoteric martial art through the practice and life of a farmer named Alfred Avril. The short film documents his proud devotion to his heritage in the face of increased globalization, and his efforts to keep this mysterious art alive.
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.
On behalf of the Dutch government, a secret agent is looking for a journalist who suddenly disappeared in Suriname. He must make his way in a country paralyzed by demonstrations and protests against the military government.
For years, Xiomara and Julie have celebrated Aruban carnaval together, but this year, Xiomara's imminent move to the Netherlands puts a strain on this day-and their friendship.
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.
In 1920s New York City, a black woman finds her world up-ended when her life becomes intertwined with a former childhood friend who's passing as white.
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.
Unbeknownst to him, a family man’s job is in danger due to his poor performance at work. Will the help of his best friend make the situation better?
In a West African plantation in the 60s, a young determined girl must battle family and society to preserve her late father's legacy; a colonial plantation, amid disagreements, betrayal, and secrets.
Kay falls in love with a maid Maafia from his wife-to-be, Princess Tyra’s Ilugbo kingdom. Problems arise when Kay impregnates Maafia.
“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 Ugandan girl sees her world rapidly change after being introduced to the game of chess.
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.
"Good Kenyan girls become good Kenyan wives," but Kena and Ziki long for something more. When love blossoms between them, the two girls will be forced to choose between happiness and safety.
Determined to reconcile with the mother who abandoned her when she was just a toddler, a Bahamian adolescent boards a local mail boat and sets sail for Nassau in director Maria Govan's intimate family drama.
A beautiful woman in her 50s meets a daring young man and accompanies him to a dive.
Set in contemporary Washington D.C., a rising black painter strives to break into the competitive art world while balancing a bittersweet romance he never expected.
Redemption of Paradise tells the story of Millicent Reid, a retired US army sniper who returned home to find her beautiful Paradise Island in shambles. Finding her community overrun by the notorious drug lord Roger and his band of cronies, Millie is bent on restoring her community back to its peaceful and dignified state.
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.
Inspired as much by Romeo and Juliet as by African legends, this film is a love story going on in ancestral times.
An "anti-colonial" movie about how people of color revolt against a cruel, white owner of a Caribbean island plantation.
7 Films, 6 Directors, 1 Island.... Jamaica. Moving from the majestic Blue Mountains, to the gritty ghetto, to the stunning north coast, and spinning stories funny, suspenseful, thrilling and poignant, this is a cinematic mosaic as diverse and complex as the island that inspired it.
A film about HIV/AIDS awareness, stigma, and discrimination. It is a follow-up film to "Choices", a peer-education project also about HIV/AIDS awareness among teens.
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.
A powerful short doc about the activism of the Honourable Rosie Douglas.
When Junior accidentally comes across a suitcase full of cocaine, he sells it and keeps the money. The owners of the drugs catch up with him, resulting in a high-speed chase around London and Africa.
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.
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.
Archival footage of the country in the year 1974.
A man is wrongfully arrested and tortured to death after he is suspected of being part of a revolutionary group.
Documentary charting the spirit, political beliefs, and actions of former President of Mozambique, Samora Machel.
On a photo shoot in Ghana, an American model slips back in time, becomes enslaved on a plantation and bears witness to the agony of her ancestral past.
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.
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.
Filmmaker Mary Jane Doherty follows two students for three years in Cuba's National Ballet School.
The inspiring story of women who fight for equality and against Islamic terrorism in one African nation.
After an accident in the world of illegal street fighting and gambling, Sandro is sentenced to ten years in prison. He has to leave his only son Shendel behind. When Sandro is free again, all he wants is to recover the relationship with his now-teenaged son. In order to protect his son and win back his trust, Sandro will have to engage in his toughest fight yet.
Shan is a portrait of a young Trinidadian dancer at the Universoul Circus, which tours the USA. This experimental work follows Shan backstage and on stage, moving between darkness and light, as she prepares to pass under the limbo stick, reflecting on her past, present and future.
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.
Wayne and Biggs grow up together on the tough and dangerous streets of Kingston. Eventually moving to Miami, they begin a ruthless climb to the top of a criminal enterprise as they aggressively take control of the Jamaican mob.
With undealt with marital issues and painful underlying secrets, two families are forced to face the fact that there is nothing "real" in their reality.
Pabi and Jimah's happy and peaceful marriage shatters after he is scarred and turns into a violent monster.
Sir Vivian Isaac Alexander Richards is a national hero and cricket icon. This documentary traces his "Road to Greatness".
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.
A young couple encounter strange occurrences after they find and sell an ancient artifact.
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.
The inspiring story of how the Afro-Bolivian community uses their music as a form of resistance and empowerment.
Tensions rise in Harare as the Chikwiro family await the arrival of their dead son Peter from London.
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.
A disturbing story of a young Albino schoolgirl sexually abused by her headmaster.
A family tries to flee the troubled country and they are intercepted along the way...they are to meet face-to-face with the notorious Captain Yusuf who runs a so-called safe house.
A twisted tale of two unemployed graduates who embark on a journey to make it in a world where you need more than what you have to get what you want.
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.
A couple, two sisters, and a father and son are driven to New York from Haiti to confront the truths of their interlocked pasts.
A young girl from the underclass and on the brink of womanhood, works at a resort where she witnesses tourists’ affluence on a daily basis. As the de facto breadwinner for her very large family, she faces a crisis of conscience, when a tourist couple seems to be the answer to her financial predicament.
Set in 1931, Sugar Cane Alley paints a rich impasto of native life under French colonial rules, filtered through the coming-of-age of a bright, sweetly opportunistic boy.
With a vigilante crowd and the police on his tail a gunman seeks refuge in the neighborhood church. Will Randy find redemption or is it too late? Sunday is a look at salvation among imperfect circumstances.
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.
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.
When a young woman meets an aspiring saxophonist in her father's record shop in 1950s Harlem, their love ignites a sweeping romance that transcends changing times, geography, and professional success.
A college graduate returns to his Senegalese fishing village, enters politics, and takes two wives.
Explores the expression of Tango's Africanness and the contribution of African cultures in the creation of the tango.
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.
Tek Dem Out tells the story of ruthless gangsters “Boss” and “Floss” who are targeted by a police task force led by Inspector Batson and Inspector Do Good and a Rasta man named Villion who they brutally assaulted and robbed.
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.
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.
Satché is about to die. He decides to make his last day on this world the best day of his life.
A restless daughter meets a spirit-fish who gives her pure water but as her family devours the delicious water, they begin to suspect more than the origin of its taste.
The film revolves around the story of Thandie who died accidentally and reveals her real life through a diary.
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.
Part 1/13 of an educational film produced that looks at the paternal aspect of colonialism.
A police officer returns to his neighborhood in Kingston, Jamaica to find himself in conflict with his childhood friend who is now the right-hand-man of the local gang-lord in a gun-running racket.
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.
Three women, who each have lost a child, journey toward redemption as they renovate a dilapidated clinic in an African village.
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 man who is going through a difficult life situation tries to connect with his past.
A young girl lives with her family in a fishing community on the water in Lagos. To prove herself valuable to the community and break the gender stereotype she embarks on a journey by herself into the sea to try and catch as many fish as possible. On her journey, she meets a wise old man that shows her a side to reality she has never seen before.
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?
Mory, a cowherd, and Anta, a university student, try to make money in order to go to Paris and leave their boring past behind.
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.
When a video of an unknown creature went viral in Barbados, a young journalist and her team embark on a journey to seek out the truth about it, she ends up uncovering a bigger story than just a video.
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.
Michael and Veronica are living their soulmate life and engaged to marry, but their journey takes a drastic turn when Veronica gets hit by mysterious illness days away from her wedding. Veronica must choose between love and saving lives.
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!
Ex-con Dexter is deported from the US and returns to Barbados to discover his homeland engulfed in crime. Armed with the guilt of his past crimes and a genuine passion to see his birthplace thrive, he takes on the role of vigilante.
A teacher asks her class, “What do you want to be when you grow up?”. While his joyful classmates respond, Tom, a quiet 10-year-old boy, slips away.
The resilience of traditional African religions practiced in the United States.
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.
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.
A young cart driver in Dakar is robbed by a succession of dishonest passengers. When his cart is confiscated by the police, he loses not only his means of livelihood but his sole claim to self-respect in an exploited and poverty-ridden community.
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.
1970s documentary film about Liberia during the presidency of William Tolbert.
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?
Rattie plots his revenge on Machine after losing $3000 in a gamble. Focusing on gang violence, Welcome to Warlock is an alternative look at Trinidadian society.
This insightful short documentary captures the activism of Marlene Green in Toronto around educating black youth and immigrant youth.
Luke Singh, a young fisherman, struggles to make ends meet. Unable to provide for his sick grandmother, Luke is presented with an opportunity to make a lot of money, but the decision would come at a great cost.
Uganda's president gives Captain Alex the mission to defeat the Tiger Maffia, but Alex gets killed in the process. Upon hearing the tragic news, his brother investigates to avenge Alex.
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.
Sara is aged 16 and likes to dance. One night, after Carnival dance practice, Sara is kidnapped. One year later, nobody knows where Sara is. All the while, Sara has been trying unsuccessfully to escape her kidnapper.
Documentary footage of a Women’s Conference in Senegal.
A TV drama on the attitude of employees in the workplace.
Dire circumstances drive a brilliant school girl into the seedy world of prostitution, threatening to derail the ambitious plans of her mother to keep her on the path to a more respectable life.
Xolani joins the other men of his community on a journey to the mountains to initiate a group of teenagers into manhood. His entire existence starts to unravel when a defiant initiate from the city discovers his best-kept secret, a forbidden love.
A corrupt politician is cursed with impotence on the night of his third wedding after embezzling 100 tons of rice.
Fifteen-year-old schoolgirl Awa is happily living her teenage years alongside her twin brother Adama, who dreams of traveling Europe. When their grandmother dies, their Aunt Fatou and their Uncle Atoumane plan to marry to preserve the family unit, but Fatou doesn't love Atoumane. Tired of waiting to consummate his marriage, Atoumane commits an unspeakable act.
"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.
Monica is in love with her friend. And now she has finally found enough courage to tell her. Today will be her coming out day.
A single mother struggles to raise her children in the poverty stricken outskirts of Santo Domingo. She soon decides to risk it all and illegally immigrate in the search of a better life.
A chronicle of the life and career of the first Black guest dancer in London for the Royal Ballet.
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.
Documentary footage of the last days of Rhodesia.
