African Studies

Babylon

Franco Rosso's incendiary Babylon had its world premiere at Cannes in 1980 but went unreleased in...

Banel & Adama

Banel and Adama are fiercely in love. The young married couple lives in a remote village in...

Bushman

In 1968, Peace Corps veteran David Schickele enlisted his friend Paul Eyam Nzie Okpokam to star in...

Casablanca Beats

Director Nabil Ayouch (Razzia, Horses of God) drew on his own experience opening a youth cultural...

Come Back, Africa/Black Roots

In making this mixture of documentary and drama, director Lionel Rogosin’s aimed to reveal...

Concerning Violence

From the director of The Black Power Mixtape comes a bold and fresh visual narrative on Africa,...

Daresalam

Tranquil, violent, intimate and objective, DARESALAM is a powerful film of resonant depth that...

Fela Kuti: "Music is the Weapon"

Fela Kuti is to African music what Bob Marley is to reggae: its prophet. All contemporary forms of...

Finding Fela

Finding Fela tells the story of Fela Anikulapo Kuti's life, his music, his social and political...

The Forgotten Kingdom

Atang Mokoenya is an unemployed, aimless young man who spends his days idling in the slums of...

Four Daughters

2024 Academy Award® Nominee – Best Documentary Feature Film One of the year's most...

Guimba the Tyrant

Winner of the Grand Prize at FESPACO 1995, Africa's pre-eminent film event, GUIMBA is a dark...

Halfaouine

Set against the sensual, erotic backdrop of modern Tunisia, renowned Arab critic-turned-filmmaker...

Karmen Geï

Bizet's celebrated opera Carmen receives a spectacularly bold reworking in Joseph Gaï...

Lumumba

From the director of I AM NOT YOUR NEGROMade in the tradition of such true-life political thrillers...

Makala

Makala (Swahili for "charcoal"), the new documentary by Emmanuel Gras, is a powerful testament to...

The Man Who Drove with Mandela

How did South Africa come to be the first country in the world to embody LGBT rights in their...

Neptune Frost

Multi-hyphenate, multidisciplinary artist Saul Williams brings his unique dynamism to this...

Nowhere in Africa

WINNER OF THE ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM  A love story spanning two...

Princess Tam Tam

Buoyed by the success of the French musical Zou Zou a year earlier, the same team created in...

SEMBENE!

In 1952, Ousmane Sembene, a dockworker and fifth-grade dropout from Senegal, began dreaming an...

Souleymane's Story

Racing through the streets of Paris making food deliveries on his bicycle, Guinean immigrant...

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

2025 Oscar® nominee for Best Documentary Feature. United Nations, 1960: the Global South...

A Summer in La Goulette

A Summer in La Goulette is “an enchanting, insanely erotic comedy” (Eye Weekly) shot on...

The Wound

Shortlisted for the Academy Award® for Best Foreign Language Film! The Wound is an exploration...

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