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by Tsitsi Dangarembga / Zimbabwe / 2005 / 30mins After living a high profile life as a model and wife to the then coach of the Zimbabwe national football team, Tendayi Westerhof stunned the nation by becoming the first high profile person to go public about her HIV positive status in 2002.
by Seke Somolu / Nigeria / 2006 / 26mins The power of food to transform, rescue and wreak revenge is eloquently demonstrated in this Nigerian film.
by Daniel Taye Workou / Ethiopia / 2006 / 21mins A short film adaptation of a well-known Ethiopian folk tale about a father and son traveling through the countryside to the market.
by Teboho Mahlatsi / South Africa and Lesotho / 2006 / 19mins A haunting tale spiced with magical realism, Meokogo & the Stick Fighter is the story of Kgotso, a recluse stickfighter who lives a solitary life high up in the Maluti Mountains of Lesotho.
by Jean-Pierre Bekolo / Cameroon / 2005 / 92mins This superbly photographed, stylishly edited, and tastefully scored film is about two young femme fatales who set out to rid a futuristic country of its corrupt and sex-obsessed powerful men.
by Cheick Fantamady Camara / Guinea / 2007 / 113mins At the age of 25, the artist-caricaturist BB finds himself faced with an impossible choice. Son of the inflexible imam Karamo, the guardian of his village's ancestral traditions, BB is chosen to be his father's worthy successor.
by Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda / Democratic Republic of the Congo / 2006 / 97mins Kongo Congo' story, and the film’s narrative, follow invisible trajectories intertwined with Congolese history and Belgium’s ghosts.
by Osvalde Lewat / Democratic Republic of the Congo and Cameroon / 2005 / 63mins What are the consequences when rape is used as a weapon of war? This moving documentary explores this question from the perspective of women in Africa.
