NYAFF29 Tote – Natural

This tote design celebrates the 29th New York African Film Festival theme, Visions of Freedom, featuring a computationally generated ensemble composed of 80+ anthems, protests, hymns, and freedom songs from the diaspora. Designed by Zainab Aliyu.

$15

NYAFF29 Tote – Black

This tote design celebrates the 29th New York African Film Festival theme, Visions of Freedom, featuring a computationally generated ensemble composed from 80+ anthems, protests, hymns and freedom songs from the diaspora. Designed by Zainab Aliyu.

$15

NYAFF29 Pin

This pin design celebrates the 29th New York African Film Festival theme, Visions of Freedom. Designed by Zainab Aliyu. Dimensions: 2 x 3 in

$3

Touki Bouki

Touki-Bouki is a stylistically sophisticated African Bonnie and Clyde story about a young couple who yearn to live the glamorous life in France, but must first pull off a couple of heists to buy their tickets out of Dakar.

$29.95

H-2 Worker

H-2 Worker reveals the systematic exploitation of Caribbean laborers by the Florida sugar industry from World War II through the 1990s.

$28.95

Mandabi

An unemployed Ibrahima faces numerous difficulties with the Senegalese bureaucracy when trying to cash a money order. This film explores themes of neocolonialism, religion, corruption, and relationships in Senegalese society.

$29.95

Manuscripts of Timbuktu

The Manuscripts of Timbuktu critiques the limited view about Timbuktu by firmly demonstrating that it was a leading cultural, economic, scientific and religious center that made a significant and lasting impact on Africa and the entire world.

$24.95

Black Girl / La Noire de…

Diouana, a beautiful and ambitious young woman, secures a job as a babysitter with a French couple working in Dakar. In France, she finds herself a virtual prisoner and exploited. Her silent rebellion is strangely effective and foreshadows the film's climax and ominous ending.

$29.95

Birago Diop, Conteur

A short film about the famous Senegalese writer and poet. While young writers of Antillean and African descent chose poetry to express the search for their identity within the Negritude movement, Birago Diop adopted African folklore as a mode of expression.

$30

A Nation is Born

In 1958, Vieyra set up a special office dedicated to film in Senegal, which, after the independence (1960), became the base of the country’s cinematography. A Nation is Born is a historical portrait of Vieyra’s homeland.

$30

L’envers du décor – Ousmane Sembène: The Making of Ceddo

Paulin Vieyra captures Ousmane Sembène, one of the greatest filmmakers of Africa, during the filming of Ceddo.

$30

Woubi Chéri

Woubi Chéri is a 1998 French/Ivorian documentary that shows a few days in the life of various members of the gay and transgender community in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

$24.95

Looking Back, Looking Forward: 20 Years of the New York African Film Festival

To commemorate twenty years of the New York African Film Festival, over thirty of the continent’s most vibrant cinematic voices reflect upon the reasons that led them to dedicate their lives to filmmaking and the new challenges and opportunities for African cinema in the future. The filmmakers’ words reveal their own unique experiences and help us discover the richness and singularity of Africa’s cinematic history, illuminating new trends in contemporary African cinema and emphasizing the role of the African filmmaker as a cultural and political mediator in our highly interconnected world. The directors’ insights are accompanied by detailed biographies and filmographies, as well as in-depth essays by filmmakers Férid Boughedir, Osvalde Lewat, and Femi Odugbemi, and renowned film programmer Richard Peña. The publication also has been honored with a statement from distinguished filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako. Together, they create an intergenerational audiovisual map of the continent. Featuring contributions from Ahmad Abdalla, Moussa Sène Absa, Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda, Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Faouzi Bensaïdi, Isabelle Boni-Claverie, Cheick Fantamady Camara, Yara Costa, Daouda Coulibaly, Yemane I. Demissie, Angèle Diabang, Andrew Dosunmu, Jihan El-Tahri, Taghreed Elsanhouri, Hawa Essuman, David ‘Tosh’ Gitonga, Alain Gomis, Wanjiru Kairu, Mama Keïta, Tunde Kelani, Judy Kibinge, Ekwa Msangi-Omari, Djo Tunda wa Munga, Jean Odoutan, Akosua Adoma Owusu, Xoliswa Sithole, Lonesome Solo, Charlie Vundla, and Zelalem Woldemariam. In 2013, as had been AFF's goal throughout the two decades of the New York African Film Festival, we gave a privileged space to the newest voices from the continent and the diaspora to celebrate more than fifty years of African cinema while continuing to look toward the future.

$20

Through African Eyes — Vol. 2

Survey African cinema through candid, revealing conversations with over twenty of the continent’s most vibrant cinematic voices, from veteran to emerging directors. Renowned filmmakers lend their voices to one-on-one interviews and group conversations, exploring African cinema as a whole and revealing their own unique experiences. Together, they illuminate trends in contemporary African cinema, ranging from emerging regional film industries to evolving gender dynamics, and the re-definition of the term “African filmmaker.” African Film Festival, Inc., has been in the unique position of charting the development of African cinema since 1990; in its 20th year in 2010, AFF is proud to have presented volume two of its landmark anthology series, Through African Eyes. Moustapha Alassane with Gaston Kaboré; Haile Gerima with Mbye Cham; Ngozi Onwurah with Simon Onwurah; Fanta Régina Nacro with Guetty Felin; Tsitsi Dangarembga with June Givanni; Zézé Gamboa with Yara Costa Pereira; Mama Keïta and Zeka Laplaine with Caroline Pochon; Jean-Michel Kibushi Ndjate Wooto with Paula Callus; Kamal El Mahouti and Brahim Fritah with Rasha Salti; Xoliswa Sithole with Nomsa Mwamuka; Cheick Fantamady Camara with Françoise Bouffault; Lancelot Imasuen, Seke Somolu, and Omelihu Nwanguma with Kaine Agary; George Amponsah and Zina Saro-Wiwa with Oladipo Agboluaje; François Verster and Rehad Desai with Kristin Pichaske; Jihan El-Tahri with Alonzo Rico Speight; Osvalde Lewat and Katy Lena Ndiaye with Aurélien Bodinaux; Judy Kibinge, Wanuri Kahiu, and Lupita Nyong’o with Ekwa Msangi-Omari; Dyana Gaye with James Schamus; and Ousmane Sembene with Mamadou Niang and Samba Gadjigo. Mamadou Diouf, Sean Jacobs and Adam Esrig, Jean-Marie Teno, Beti Ellerson, and Mamadou Niang, and forward by Richard Peña, Program Director of The Film Society of Lincoln Center.

$25

Through African Eyes — Vol. 1

Through African Eyes: Dialogues with the Directors surveys African cinema through candid revealing conversations with twenty of its most original and celebrated filmmakers. From the pioneers in the industry to the emerging generation they are all bonded by their need to tell stories to shed light on African realities and to shape the future images of the continent. Having been in the unique position of charting the development of African cinema since 1990, African Film Festival, Inc. proudly presented this important anthology during its 10th anniversary season. Ousmane Sembene with Samba Gadjigo; Mweze Ngangura with Mbye Cham; Safi Faye with Zeiba Monod; Kwaw Ansah with Letebele Masemola-Jones; Gaston Kaboré with Baba Hama; Abderrahmane Sissako with Kwame Anthony Appiah; Flora Gomes with Frieda Ekotto; Idrissa Ouedraogo with Olivier Barlet; Cheick Oumar Sissoko with Danny Glover; Jean-Marie Teno with Jonathan Nossiter; Roger Gnoan M'Bala with Dan Talbot; Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda with Mamadou Niang; Jean-Pierre Bekolo with Christine Tully-Sitchet; Moussa Sene Absa with Prerana Reddy; Mahamat Saleh-Haroun with A.O. Scott; Wanjuri Kinyanjui with Dommie Yambo-Odotte; Alain Gomis with Jonathan Demme; Tunde Kelani with Dorothy Désir; Theo Eshetu with Keith Shiri; and Dumisani Phakathi with Xoliswa Sithole. Françoise Pfaff, Teresa Hoefert de Turégano and Jude Akudinobi with foreword by Richard Peña, former Program Director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center.

$25

Faat Kiné

Sembène tackles the question of women's lives in contemporary Dakar, Senegal's bustling capital. It's a warm, often funny story of a single mother, her two children, two ex-husbands, aged mother and assorted friends.

$29.95

Guew Bi: Sabar Dances of Senegal

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.

$20

A Trip to the Country

With irony and humor, this film questions the validity of development discourse which deems all things European to be modern and all things African to be archaic.

$26.95

Alex’s Wedding

Unlike any wedding video you've ever seen, Teno's sharp eye captures every uncomfortable moment in a polygamous marriage ceremony.

$26.95

Paulin Vieyra 7-DVD Box Set

Vieyra and his collaborator Mamadou Sarr explore the lives of Africans living in Paris, poetically evoking the ambiguities and questions about identity that plague students educated in colonialist spaces, removed from their comfort zone.

$500

Bamako

Set in the courtyard of a mud walled house in Bamako, the capitol city of Mali, the intimate personal story of an African couple on the verge of breaking up is told alongside very public political proceedings.

$29.95

Jazz on a Summer’s Day

Noted photographer Bert Stern filmed a virtual Who's Who of jazz and blues at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival: including Thelonius Monk, Louis Armstrong, Dinah Washington and Mahalia Jackson.

$29.95

Life and Debt

This highly acclaimed film about the relationship between Jamaican poverty and the practices of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund features interviews with both world leaders and sweatshop workers in order to highlight the consequences of globalization.

$29.95

Afro@digital

An exploration of how, in 2001, digital technology was changing the landscape of African art and culture, and how it could be used to serve the interest of Africa at large.

$26.95

Dôlé

The tribulations of five youths start this film. Libreville is home to Mougler and his friends, Baby Lee, Joker, Jackson and Bezingo. The boys are left to fend for themselves and decide to rob a dôlé stand, a new game of chance in which you can become a millionaire.

$26.95

The Hero

The Hero (O Herói) is the story of Angola, a nation torn apart by forty years of uninterrupted war, and now trying imperfectly but courageously to piece itself back together.

$26.95

Karmen Geï

Like every Carmen, Karmen Geï is about the conflict between infinite desire for freedom and the laws, conventions, languages, the human limitations which constrain that desire. Since this is an African Carmen, freedom necessarily has a political dimension.

$26.95

Keïta! The Voice of the Griot

Keita tells the story of Djeliba Kouyate, an old griot who charged in the twilight of his life to recount to young Mabo Keita the origin of his name, a name that carries with it an epic saga of the founder of the Madingo Empire.

$26.95

Mapantsula

Mapantsula tells the story of Panic, a petty gangster who inevitably becomes caught up in the growing anti-apartheid struggle and has to choose between individual gain and a united stand against the system.

$26.95

Forgiveness

Tertius Coetzee, an ex-cop granted amnesty for his crimes by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, seeks out the family of one of his apartheid-era victims to ask them for forgiveness.

$30

Africa Dreaming

This film explores the impact of the modern world on the traditional male society of the Maghreb. It is a film about men who prefer to live life as an abstract game and the free-spirited woman who changes everything.

$26.95

The Prodigal Son

The Prodigal Son retraces the lost history of the Orderson family. The filmmaker’s great grandfather, Joseph Orderson was of the generation of newly emancipated slaves, who with fellow West Indians left Barbados to settle all over the world.

$20

Cosmic Africa

Cosmic Africa and African astronomer, Thebe Medupe explore Africa's ancient astronomy history, while unveiling the deep connection humans have with the cosmos.

$30

Pieces d’identites

A timeless tale of an old king, his beautiful wayward daughter, a dragon of sorts, and a prince charming. It even has a happy ending. But Pieces d’Identités also raises troubling issues of identity in the Diaspora.

$24.95

Ça Twiste à Poponguine

Ca Twiste a Poponguine is set in the mid '60s and follows the exploits of two gangs of teenagers who adopt Western ways.

$24.95

Language You Cry In

The Language You Cry In tells an amazing scholarly detective story reaching across hundreds of years and thousands of miles from 18th century Sierra Leone to the Gullah people of present-day Georgia.

$24.95

Mortu Nega

This story, set in 1973, follows Dominga as she journeys to join her husband, Sako, a liberation fighter. While her path to the front reveals the ravages of five centuries of colonialism, her return home will be amidst the joy of hard-won freedom.

$24.95

When the Stars Meet the Sea

Destiny is the key to belief systems of the Merina people, but Kapila, the crippled hero, embarks on a journey which ultimately leads him to embrace a future guided by love and imagination.

$24.95

La Vie Est Belle

La Vie est belle takes us inside the vibrant music scene of Kinshasha, Zaire's exhilarating and exasperating capital of four million.

$24.95

Monday’s Girls

Two young Wakirke women offer opposing attitudes toward the Iria, the ritual by which Nigerian women are recognized as being suitable for marriage.

$24.95

Tableau Ferraille

Daam, an idealistic young politician, must choose between the social paradigms exemplified by his two wives. Ganerisi is a dignified village lady, and Kine, a modern, western-educated woman.

$24.95

All About Darfur

Director Taghreed Elsanhouri talks to everyday Sudanese in outdoor tea shops, markets, refugee camps and living rooms about how deeply rooted prejudices could suddenly burst into a wild fire of ethnic violence.

$24.95

Guimba the Tyrant

This film tells the story of a small West African village ruled by a tyrant and his son. The movie starts and ends as a folk story told by a narrator.

$24.95

When Silence is Golden

When Silence is Golden follows the film’s director in her quest to lift the silence on the gold mining activities of a Canadian mining company near a small town in Western Ghana.

$20

Hyenas

Mambéty adapts a timeless parable of human greed into a biting satire of today's Africa–betraying the hopes of independence for the false promises of Western materialism.

$24.95

Thunderbolt

Thunderbolt is woven around Ngozi, a young elegant Igbo lady and Yinka a young man of Yoruba origin who meet and fall in love during the National Youth Service.

$24.95

Kemtiyu, Cheikh Anta (DVD)

Kemtiyu is a portrait of this trailblazing scholar—venerated by some, derided by others, and unknown to most—an honest, enlightened political figure who had an insatiable thirst for science and knowledge.

$30

Kemtiyu, Cheikh Anta (Blu-ray)

Kemtiyu is a portrait of this trailblazing scholar—venerated by some, derided by others, and unknown to most—an honest, enlightened political figure who had an insatiable thirst for science and knowledge.

$35

Lamb

This documentary captures the sport of traditional wrestling, called ‘lamb’ in Wolof, popular in Senegal.

$30

Afrique sur Seine

Vieyra and his collaborator Mamadou Sarr explore the lives of Africans living in Paris, poetically evoking the ambiguities and questions about identity that plague students educated in colonialist spaces, removed from their comfort zone.

$30