Africa Movies

Little Bird's first South African production, SOPHIATOWN has won the award for Best Documentary at the Cape Town World Cinema Festival 2003. ...

In the North African desert at the height of WWII, an SAS raiding squad led by Lt. David Walker and Sgt. Daniel Thomas capture an Afrika Korps...

"Mammy Water" is mother sea, source of food. Jean Rouch filmed this short documentary in the Gulf of Guinea, in Ghana, where is held a colorful...

The Gangbé Brass Band, a musical group from Benin, sets out to conquer Lagos, capital of Nigeria.

The night before a local haunted house opens for Halloween, six friends sneak in for a few hours of fun. Soon after entering, they find themselves...

The boisterous and cheerful lives of the residents of Cameroon are barely dented by incursions of supernatural power in this humor-filled rendition...

Nasa, a successful 31-year-old, faces a life-altering challenge when her doctor advises conceiving soon after a myomectomy. Pressured by her...

While Aya has dreams of becoming a doctor, her two best friends, Adjoua and Bintou, just like to hang out and spend their evenings dancing, drinking...

The gods have declared the drought of the country. There seems to be no hope. A holy man summoned by the king requires the sacrifice of a young woman...

The implantation of African traders in Guangzhou is a recent phenomenon, on which Marie Voignier reports through her interlinking portraits of...

Broke lion tamers travel to Africa to make a movie about Amazon women, from a distance.

The film uses the 1969 American Apollo 11 mission that landed a man on the moon as the year and the backdrop for an interesting glimpse at middle...

An engrossing road movie, given tremendous depth by its « journeys within the journey » – the fascinating detours taken as the road...

An ethnographic documentary following four Ju/’hoansi (!Kung) men during a multi-day giraffe hunt in the Kalahari Desert, filmed during the...

August Bolte, the richest man in a settlement in German East Africa in the period before World War I, is called "Mamba" by the locals, which is the...

Four survivors of a ship wreck are stranded on a deserted island, including a woman and the man she believes is responsible for the murder which her...

Jane Rambo is sent on a rescue mission. However, she soon learns that her commander cannot be trusted.

A British colonial policeman in Africa investigates a murder in a hospital up river.

Kenya, Africa, late 1920's. Baroness Karen Blixen, Danish writer known as Isak Dinesen and future author of the autobiographical novel Out of Africa,...

Growing increasingly desperate, a married woman asks her young associate to seduce her husband in order to frame him once and for all.