Africa Movies

Three short films about abandoned children, left to the omnipotence of silence, of the eye and of the hand but also of abysmal loneliness

A Djiboutian film.

"Not Naked" explores cultural differences and their power to draw people together. This short celebrates the diversity of the rich global cultural...

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

Mariama is the best student in her village and has a bright future. Her parents dream of sending her to America. But a predatory teacher and the...

The first filmmaker arrived in Equatorial Guinea in 1904. The last movie theatre closed in Malabo in the 1990s. In 2011, during the II African Film...

Come and experience Tippi's world!

The search to prove that surfing is an African sport by traveling to the remote island nation of Sao Tome.

The film follows the rugby season of Uitenhage prop forward Zama Takayi - who plays for Progress Rugby club, the club that amalgamated the black...

A reportage cross-cutting film about the development of Africa from 1900-1936, using archive footage and film material from earlier African...

Bejo, 12 years old, lives with his brother Mario, a sculptor. Having heard the news on the radio his dream is to see the Bissau carnival, but he has...

Hereros Angola is a documentary film on the ethnic group of the same name. Originated from Bantu peoples, they maintain their millennial culture...

Children and teenagers throw sticks, berries, and leaves at each other from perches in a large baobab tree.

A Young South Sudanese girl struggles with temptations to complete university and secure a job that will cater for her and her brother....She gets...

Directed by Mohamed Nadir Azizi.

An aging village chief entrenched in traditional Cameroonian ways clashes with his daughter. She was educated in France to help support the family,...

Lesego's Story is a short film about the struggles of a young girl in Gaborone, Botswana.

A marauding band of black terrorists hold the inhabitants of a tiny desert settlement hostage. They murder most of the settlers, but spare a...

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,...

We are living in the time of a heteronormative society that antagonizes Queer people for their Being-ness. In Africa, it is believed that we are...