Africa Movies

A city with its problems. A gang of abandoned children provide for themselves and pose as heroes. The police are on their backs day and night. They...

Every evening during exam season, as the sun sets over Conakry, Guinea, hundreds of school children begin a nightly pilgrimage to the airport, petrol...

A black and a white woman meets in Dar es Salam because of their men, and starts a friendship, despite their different background.

This beautiful film about the immigrant experience is a San Francisco film about Eritrea. Sephora Woldu plays "Sephora" who, like the director, is an...

Directed by Sid Ali Mazif.

Portrait of Si Mohand U M'hand, an Algerian Amazigh poet from the end of the last century, whose tragic destiny was marked by wandering and revolt....

Frantz Fanon alone embodies all the issues of French colonial history. Martinican resistance fighter, he enlisted, like millions of colonial...

A portrait of the mythical band Bembeya Jazz, which contributed to the heyday of Sekou Touré’s cultural revolution in Guinea. Created in...

This film presents a harsh critique of the Koranic teaching through the tragic story of a small talibé, student of a beggar.

An Italian in East Africa having an affair with a coloured woman realises that his treatment of her is as tyrannical as more overt superior...

Back home in Bujumbura with a Parisian diploma in his pocket and expecting to walk into a civil service job, Gito finds himself both unemployed and...

Maria Ada is a famous urban legend that tells the story of a teacher who died leaving two sons behind while his ghost occasionally comes to life...

Tchai is the word used by Ju/'hoansi to describe getting together to dance and sing; n/um can be translated as medicine, or supernatural potency. In...

An Austrian director followed five successful African music and dance artists with his camera and followed their lives for a year. The artists, from...

Christiana, a determined university student, faces a dark spiral of challenges when her supervisor demands an unethical favor for her project...

This film follows the fortunes of an old Peugeot off loaded in Cotonou, Benin. As it changes hands we get a glimpse into the lives of its successive...

This story humorously uses different events to explore the habit of late coming among Africans. While addressing some of the challenges that several...