Africa Movies

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

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

As a child in Burkina Faso, Yacouba was sent away from home to study the Qur'an, where he and his classmates were almost starving. The young boys...

In Kouroussa, his native village, little Baba lives happily, between Madou, his father, a gifted mechanic, Kouda, his sweet mother, and his gang of...

Four students from the President's Leadership Circle at Frostburg State University journey to a remote village in Uganda to discover a radically...

An epic war film about the battle of the Italian and Libyan armies.

It tells the story of a boy Kumasenu who moves to the city of Accra from a small fishing village, encouraged by his cousin Agboh's exaggerated tales...

Dr. Bluto sails off to Darkest Africa for exploration. Popeye, who stayed behind, hears a radio report that Bluto is lost and sets sail - on a raft -...

British explorer Henry Stanley travels to Africa in 1871 seeking missionary David Livingstone.

An action thriller which lends a multinational depiction of contemporary Africa and centers on a local homeopathic cure for a virus that has crept...

Young Africans in Paris face insecurity and vague future. Should they stay in France, or return to their homes?

We observe the animals in the wild. After watching the film, a series of individual observations remain in the memory, which, when placed in the...

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

A Djiboutian film.

After a young boy dies of meningitis, Napoko Diarrha (Yaméogo) is accused of eating his soul because of a local sexist tradition. While this...

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