Hotel Rwanda

Hotel Rwanda 2004

7.71

Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.

2004

The Mummy

The Mummy 1932

6.75

An ancient Egyptian priest named Imhotep is revived when an archaeological expedition finds his mummy and one of the archaeologists accidentally reads an ancient life-giving spell. Imhotep escapes from the field site and searches for the reincarnation of the soul of his lover.

1932

Hyenas

Hyenas 1992

7.10

A now-rich woman returns to her poor desert hometown to propose a deal to the populace: her fortune, in exchange for the death of the man who years earlier abandoned her and left her with his child.

1992

Girl From Nowhere

Girl From Nowhere 2017

4.60

A Cape Town couple, Katherine and Hugh, are headed to their private mountain getaway, when they pick up a hitchhiker, Liza, who carries a gun. Liza is invited for lunch, but soon the couple can't get rid of her.

2017

Os Comprometidos - Actas de um processo de descolonização

Os Comprometidos - Actas de um processo de descolonização 1984

1

The film deals with the judgment of the so-called "compromised", who integrated the colonial apparatus. At Josina Machel school, in an amphitheater with a full audience and balcony, there is a stage where Samora Machel and the members of the Frelimo political committee are located. He records Samora, an impeccable political actor, sometimes histrionic, in the role that he is attributed as the animator of the scene in the trial.

1984

New Boy

New Boy 2007

6.50

A young African boy with a haunting back story starts school in Ireland, and finds out quickly exactly what it means to be the new kid. Winner of Best Narrative Short at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival and nominated for an Oscar.

2007

Nationality: Immigrant

Nationality: Immigrant 1976

1

A Mauritanian worker, Sidi, works in France. Like most immigrant workers, he is employed to do the most difficult and dangerous jobs. Sidi and his comrades are exploited systematically and permanently, as much by their employers as by their own countrymen who are constantly able to offer false working papers, slums where immigrants buy at high cost their right to sleep. But faced with racism and economic exploitation, immigrant workers communicate, organise...

1976

The Nine Muses

The Nine Muses 2010

5.60

Part documentary, part personal essay, this experimental film combines archive imagery with the striking wintry landscapes of Alaska to tell the story of immigrant experience coming into the UK from 1960 onwards.

2010

Jirimpimbira: An African Folk Tale

Jirimpimbira: An African Folk Tale 1995

2.00

A brave boy named Temba ventures to find food and water for his drought-striken village. But when he is given a set of magical bones, he uses them to gain riches for himself instead of sharing with his friends.

1995

The New Country

The New Country 2000

6.70

A 15-year-old Somalian boy meets a 40-year-old Iranian man in a refugee camp in Skåne, in the south of Sweden. With the threat of deportation hanging over them, they decide to take their faiths in their own hands and together they go on a journey in the Swedish summer.

2000

Disconnect

Disconnect 2018

2.20

A romantic comedy that brings out the intricacies and absurdities of the Nairobi dating scene.

2018

Little by Little

Little by Little 1970

7.20

An African travels to Paris to learn about the construction of tall buildings, but is soon taken up with the oddities of French life.

1970

El Limpiabotas

El Limpiabotas 2009

2.00

The story takes place in Equatorial Guinea, where Mr. Cuchillas leads a mafia gang that takes care of dirty business. Even a shoe shine will come to him, in search of a more profitable job.

2009

Jaguar

Jaguar 1967

6.70

Jaguar, a kind of road movie on foot, tells of the journey of three friends, Damouré, Lam and Illo, on their way to the Gold Coast where they hope to make a fortune in order to return to their village in a few months.

1967

Karmen Gei

Karmen Gei 2001

4.50

Bizet's Carmen gets a modern adaptation. Seducting, provocating, sensual. All the ingredients for a perfect drama. With her charm, Karmen gets out of many situations.

2001

Silence

Silence 2019

1

Ire loses his innocence in the most brutal way.

2019

Picc Mi

Picc Mi 1992

5.20

Follows the story of two young boys and their adventure through the streets of Africa.

1992

Ancestral Voices

Ancestral Voices 2011

1

An educational documentary spanning two continents, opening up a much-needed debate about traditional African spiritual systems; their cosmologies, ideologies and underlying ethical principles. Modern science no longer refutes the origins of mankind being in Africa and similarities in the cosmological ideologies of African esoteric systems with those found many established world religions today, suggest that it was not only people that migrated, but also concepts and themes that then provided bedrock for the formation of other systems of belief.

2011

Young, Famous & African

Young, Famous & African 2022

7.60

This reality series follows a crew of famed, affluent stars as they work and play, flirt and feud in Johannesburg, South Africa.

2022

Zero

Zero 2021

7.30

A teenager who can make herself invisible is used by an idiot to take control of the neighborhood and then meets a mysterious art student.

2021

Slavery and the Making of America

Slavery and the Making of America 2005

7.90

The history of American slavery from its beginnings in the British colonies to its end in the Southern states and the years of post-Civil War Reconstruction. Looks at slavery as an integral part of a developing nation, challenging the long held notion that slavery was exclusively a Southern enterprise. Simultaneously focuses on the remarkable stories of individual slaves, offering new perspectives on the slave experience and testifying to the active role that Africans and African Americans took in surviving their bondage and shaping their own lives.

2005