African Studies

Babylon

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

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Daresalam

Two childhood friends swept up in civil wars in Chad and Burkina Faso. Tranquil, violent, intimate a...

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Finding Fela

Directed by Alex Gibney, this is the story of Fela Anikulapo Kuti's life, his music, his social and ...

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42 Grams

Chef Jake Bickelhaupt goes from running an illegal restaurant in his home to being a culinary celebr...

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Karmen Geï

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

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Fela Kuti: "Music is the Weapon"

Shot in Lagos at the peak of his career in 1982, this documentary contains interviews with Fela deta...

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Lumumba

Made in the tradition of such true-life political thrillers as Malcolm X and JFK, Rao...

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Neptune Frost

In an otherworldly e-waste dump camp, an anti-colonialist hacking collective attempts a takeover of ...

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Nowhere in Africa

A love story spanning two continents, NOWHERE IN AFRICA is the extraordinary true tale of a Jewish f...

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SEMBENE!

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

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Princess Tam Tam

An ingenious shepherdess is transformed into a bogus Indian princess of a capricious French aristocr...

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The Forgotten Kingdom

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

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Guimba the Tyrant

Acclaimed at home and at the Cannes, Toronto and New York Film Festivals as the African film...

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Concerning Violence

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

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The Man Who Drove with Mandela

In 1962, at the height of oppression in apartheid South Africa, a gay white theatre director was arr...

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The Wound

John Trengove’s award-winning film is an exploration of tradition and sexuality set amid South...

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