Africa Movies

A mystical performance about the sea and the earth based on a Yoruba folk tale.

Biniam Girmay’s recent successes have shown that African cycling is on the up, ready at last to follow athletics and football into the big...

A Castiglioni Brothers mondo film about the practices and rites of several native African tribes.

A moving recording of the late writer and renowned jazz singer Abbey Lincoln is captured in this new film from Brooklyn-born director Rodney...

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

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...

Born in Indonesia to Victor Raoul Baron von Lawick and Isabella Sophia Baroness van Ittersum, he developed an early love for animals. He determined...

Short documentary about folk customs in Nigeria.

Led by Daoudi, a disenchanted architect, a group of Constantines return to their village in deep Algeria where a young man delivers to them words of...

An adaptation of the satirical play of the same name by comedian Rouïched (Ahmed Ayad). "El-Ghoula" (The Vampire) tells the story of a corrupt...

Across Africa, people are using soccer to lift themselves up, to create change in their communities and to pave the way for progress. "The Beautiful...

Travelogue released on December 11th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Adapted from two legends of the Nyaneka people in southeastern Angola. Set during a time of famine, and with only two families surviving, the film...

Short documentary about the Sahara-dwelling Toubou, a tribe in which the women are treated as equals by the men.

A Luta Continua explains the military struggle of the Liberation Front of Mozambique (FRELIMO) against the Portuguese. Produced and narrated by...

Think cheetah - think speed! Natures supercharger is the fastest thing on four legs. A cat of supreme grace and beauty, the cheetahs lives kid in the...

A glimpse of life as seen through young people at a Zimbabwean children's home.

An African diplomat who has returned to his native country after a long stay in Europe realizes that perhaps he has assimilated too much white...

Documentary on Mozambican music, and the role it played in the country's rediscovering its national identity after centuries of colonial rule.