Africa Movies

Hans Schomburgk reflects on his life as a researcher. He recounts experiences, adventures, and insights he has gathered over the course of 60 years...

Back from the US to his village in Niger, a man brings American Western outfits to his close friends, who immediately identify with cowboys. A bloody...

This film takes a close look at Africa's varied geography and the people who settled and live in these region. Also it contrasts the rural villages...

Introducing a generation of young Africans determined to be the first free of AIDS.

Solveig is a recent widow with no children. In the early 1980s she sponsored a young orphan, Sibusiso, in the small kingdom of Eswatini in Southern...

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....

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

In the midst of the Algerian War in 1957, fighters (fidayounes) resisted French intervention with the help of a doctor.

A behind-the-scenes documentary about the gorillas featured in the film Virunga.

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...

Communities in Rwanda have come together every last Saturday of month since the 11th century to build, clean, and plant.

David and Judith MacDougall are exploring the marriage rituals and roles of Turkana women in this ethnographic documentary. The film's biggest part...

This film is devoted to Algeria's vast equipment plan which has fostered the development of the ports of Algiers and Oran. The inauguration of new...

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

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

After brilliant studies in France and a 15-year absence from his homeland, Adama, a young graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique, rushes back to...

It is set in the hustle and bustle of the city of Accra and its suburbs with glimpses of the exciting metropolis of London.