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by Teco Benson & Jakob S. Boeskov / Nigeria and USA / 2010 / 9mins This tongue-in-cheek, Scandinavian-Nigerian-American co-production follows the interrogation of a white oil executive in a hideout somewhere in Nigeria.
by Françoise Bouffault / Senegal / 1997 / 30mins This film, explores sabar, an astonishing contemporary art form deeply rooted in African tradition, shot in the streets of Dakar, with the participation of Master Drummer Doudou Ndiaye Rose.
by Katrin Hansing / South Africa, Cuba and USA / 2009 / 24mins Freddy Ilanga, a fifteen year old Congolese youth, becomes Che Guevara's personal Swahili teacher and translator during the seven intense months of Ches mission to train anti-Mobutu rebels in Congo.
by Daouda Coulibaly / Mali and Senegal / 2009 / 21mins Nama decides to make his home in a cave, where he will lead a hermit’s life and devote himself to God. One day, God sends an angel to Nama to thank him for being so devoted.
by Remi Vaughan-Richards / Nigeria / 2010 / 45mins Local hairdresser, Grace Fidelis, takes a stand against the corrupt local councilman in a small town in Nigeria to save her community from a health disaster.
by Wanuri Kahiu / Kenya and South Africa / 2009 / 33mins Pumzi / Air is set in the East African region, 35 years after World War III, in a world with no water and toxic soil. The story is told through the eyes of Asha, a curator at a virtual natural history museum in the Maitu Community.
by Eliane De Latour / Ivory Coast and France / 2008 / 106mins A police raid separates two immigrants' fates, leaving one to find success in Europe, while the other suffers the disappointment of deportation and a dream deferred.
by Michel Ocelot / France / 2005 / 95mins A sumptuous follow-up to the universally beloved Kirikou and the Sorceress, Kirikou and the Wild Beasts shows how the smallest and most valiant of heroes can overcome the fiercest of beasts.
by Oliver Hermanus / South Africa / 2009 / 92mins In this deeply affecting portrait of ordinary courage in present-day South Africa, a single mother Shirley Adams' struggles to care for her paraplegic teenage son, Donovan, in a depressed district on the outskirts of Cape Town.
