Africa Movies

"Tubabs" is a nickname for foreigners, especially white ones, in the West African country of Gambia. In this documentary filmed by Mary Flannery, a...

Fatima and the group of her high school friends will get their bachelor degrees. A question arises in each of them: to continue their studies in...

The story of Kenyan athlete David Rudisha, the greatest 800m runner the world has ever seen, and his unusual coach, the Irish Catholic missionary...

Through living ritual and stop motion animation, this short tells the story of stolen Africans who are thrown off a slave ship whilst sailing through...

A young student from a family which considers itself "progressive" cannot marry the boy she loves as he comes from the caste of the smiths who are...

The film focuses on the positive side of Africa rarely seen. The film presents the cultural richness of Africa and explains ancient customs and...

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....

Rwanda was once a country of peace, beauty and fabulous wildlife. Romain Baertsoen arrived there in 1966 and started to film two of Rwanda's secrets,...

On a journey to West Africa, award-winning documentarian Mathew Welsh fashions portraits of six 'middle class' Gambians - taking us beyond...

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...

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

A film about Mali's ancient culture, and this culture's position in the country today. Filmed with a Malian crew, cut to the beat of Malian music,...

In the center of Equator Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Ilima community remains one of the most isolated in the world. They have...

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 study of the behavior of monkeys in the African jungle.

Tamsir returns to Senegal after 17 years in Europe. His uncle gives him a patronage job in Dakar, virtually without duties. He visits his family's...

The film is an evocative story of the tenuous relationship between a charcoal burner and forests. The film follows Lloyd on his journey from burning...

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...

Sexual decisions have deadly consequences. Can a small group of college students from Botswana challenge conventional wisdom about AIDS in Africa to...

First ever Gambian feature film tells the story of a couple who met out of an anonymous call made by Lina to Micheal. Micheal fell in love with her...