A story about a young man (Wendo Mbilizi) living a hard life but survived. Wendo Mbilizi was born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but had to flee away from home when he was just two months old.
Nearly 2 hours of the short films that made HIStory... Including never before released short films.
A coming-of-age political love story set in the final years of British colonial Zanzibar. Denge, a young freedom fighter meets Yasmin, an Indian-Zanzibari woman in the middle of the night as she is on her way to be married. Passion and revolution escalate.
In seinem vielfach preisgekrönten Dokumentarfilm schildert der österreichische Regisseur Hubert Sauper die ernüchternden Konsequenzen von Globalisierung am Beispiel des Viktoriasees und der Vermarktung des Viktoriabarsches. Er lässt die Schwachen zu Wort kommen, die nicht zu den wenigen starken Profiteuren des Fischbooms gehören, die verarmten Fischer, die Prostituierten, die Straßenkinder. Sauper zeigt die Schattenseiten jener neuen Weltordnung, welche die Kluft zwischen Arm und Reich immer extremer vergrößert und in der das darwinistische Prinzip des Gesetzes des Stärkeren geradezu alptraumhafte Züge annimmt. Ein Film, der tief unter die Haut geht. Ausgezeichnet mit dem Europäischen Filmpreis (2004), Oscar-Nominierung "Bester Dokumentarfilm" (2006)
Mbwana and his best friend Juma are two young men with big dreams. These dreams become reality when they photograph a gigantic fish leaping out of the sea and their small town blossoms into a tourist hot-spot as a result. But for Mbwana, the reality isn't what he dreamed – and when he meets the fish again, both of them forgotten, ruined and old, he decides only one of them can survive. Jonah is a big fish story about the old and the new, and the links and the distances between them. A visual feast, shot though with humour and warmth, it tells an old story in a completely new way.
In the tranquil setting of a small fishing community on the east coast of Zanzibar, a fire is raging in the hearts of three young individuals—and the entire community feels the heat. Amri is a man trapped between his desire for a local fisherman and the traditional family-man role that he is expected to fulfill.
A fearless sea captain, Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, sails a ship through loopholes in international law, providing abortions on the high seas, and leaving in her wake a network of emboldened activists who trust women to handle abortion on their own terms.
Nhwale a villager and of course a bush man decided to visit town where he was brought by accident while he entered the foreign van who were hunting in their forest, in town Nhwale got himself into lots of troubles because everything seemed new to him.
An American woman doctor comes to Tanzania to work at a hospital for the mentally disturbed, with her Tanzanian lover. There, she meets a sometimes catatonic patient, Samahe, who seems to be in communication with another reality. In their confrontation with their individual and collective pasts, Dr Asira and Samehe are bound by fears and half remembered images of unbearable pain. Only through the spirit of Maangamizi, can the women resume their lives with an understanding of the ancestors and their eternal presence in a world of cruelty, hatred and death. It is a story that seeks to reclaim the connection between Africa and her Diaspora, and one that dares to represent the histories of two continents as it peels away layers upon layers of pain to bring healing of the soul.
Pili lives in rural Tanzania, working the fields for less than $1 a day to feed her two children and struggling to manage her HIV-positive status in secret. When she is offered the chance to rent a sought-after market-stall, Pili is desperate to have it. But with only two days to get the deposit together, Pili is forced to make increasingly difficult decisions with ever-deepening consequences. How much will she risk to change her life?
Bahasha is the story of Kitasa, an elected public official who betrays his family, friends and community when he takes an easy bribe.
Since 2008, albinos in Tanzania have become human targets. Witch doctors offer huge sums of cash for their body parts to be used in magic potions. From 2008 to 2010, more than 200 witch-doctor inspired murders occurred. As a local saying goes: “Albinos do not die, they just disappear.” This is the story of Alias, an albino boy on the run. After his father’s murder, his mother sends him to the city. His uncle Kosmos, a truck driver, takes care of him. Alias learns fast in the city, selling sunglasses, DVDs and cellphones, it will not take long before the boy experiences at first hand the difficulties of life and of being different.
The life story of the famous danish author Jakob Ejersbo is told as his two friends are struggling to reach the top of Kilimanjaro to spread his ashes from there.
Drei einsame und gestrandete Männer finden über die Liebe zum Saxophon spielen zueinander. Barney Schweinheimer ein ehemals international gefragtes Model, bleibt von seiner Karriere nur noch ein Koffer und ein altes Saxophon. Michael Kiesel lebt unter der Fuchtel seines tyrannischen Vaters und bietet „Saxophonkurs für Singles“ an. Dragan Kuhl ist die meiste Zeit einsam in seiner riesigen Villa und spielt Pingpong. Zwischen Schnaps und Zwieback gründen die drei eine Wohngemeinschaft, bis Youtube ihr Leben verändert...
Mashoto’s life in the city is a hustle. It’s a fast life in the fast city of Dar es Salaam. There’s no time to stop and Mashoto likes it this way. There’s no time to think about the people he left behind in the village. Until silence cuts through the city racket with three words: mother has died. With those words Mashoto’s life changes forever. He returns home, to the place he abandoned, to bury his only ally. Yet his mother has left behind a gift. Her voice, her unseen presence, a gentle whisper urging him to open his eyes and strain his ears- to learn the lessons of nature, of the earth and the roots that draw their nourishment from it. Cast out by his father after losing the little money his mother had left, Mashoto must learn to survive from the land. He must learn to face old enemies and forge new alliances, to fight and to love. Most of all, Mashoto must discover what it is he is fighting for.
Footage of the investigation documentary telling about the extermination of African elephants lasted almost three years. The film crew traveled throughout 30 countries to make a route of ivory smuggling and to find out the true culprit of these crimes against elephants.
A story about a young African man living with his beautiful childhood love interest in a bedroom shack, struggling to find work. He then gets a once in a lifetime opportunity to earn money and have a lifestyle beyond his wildest dreams working for a corrupt organization. This dream lifestyle turns to a nightmare when authorities close in on him to turn in his father-figure boss, and his entire organization while losing all his wealth or risk some serious jail time.
Eine traditionsbewußte Bäuerin hat stets ihren Körper und ihre Seele aufs Spiel gesetzt, um das Land ihres Mannes zu bewirtschaften und ihre Familie zu versorgen. Sie kämpft gegen schlechtes Wetter, Ungeziefer und Armut. Aber als Manyusi ihre wertvolle Ernte vergeudet und plant ihre Tochter zu verheiraten, muss Fatuma ihren Ehemann bekämpfen.
Wir befinden uns inmitten einer globalen Perspektivlosigkeit. Wir übersehen die unanfechtbare Tatsache, dass alles Leben zusammenhängt und alle Lebensformen in Verbindung stehen. Der Film PLANETARY ist der ultimative Weckruf, provokativ und atemberaubend. Die cineastische Reise führt uns quer durch alle Kontinente auf der Suche unseres kosmischen Ursprungs und die Zukunft unserer Spezies. Es ist ein poetisch anrührender Aufruf, uns neu umzusehen. PLANETARY zwingt uns zu hinterfragen wer wir wirklich sind, wie wir miteinander und der Umwelt umgehen sollten, mit dem Ziel uns daran zu erinnern, dass wir ”Planetarier” sind.
Der in Tansania gedrehte Spielfilm zeigt vier Lebensläufe, vier Geschichten von Herausforderungen, Gelegenheiten und zweite Chancen.
Nine famous faces are pushed to their physical and emotional limits in a valiant attempt to scale Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain, to raise money for Comic Relief and help change lives this Red Nose Day, with their turmoil and triumphs revealed in Kilimanjaro: The Bigger Red Nose Climb.
This film follows John Kitime, a Tanzanian musician now in his 60s, as he sets out on a mission to put together an all-star band from the old days to revive the classic sound of Zilipendwa music. Along the way, he meets the people who played key roles in the music scene of Tanzania during the struggle for independence and the nation's formative years under the first president, Julius K. Nyerere. As Kitime plays with the band, spends time with musicians and digitizes reel-to-reel tapes from the 1960s and '70s, he reveals a fascinating and little-known story about the power of music to bring together a people and a nation.
In a rural Maasai village in Tanzania, a primary school girl is suddenly confronted by an arranged marriage.
A small group of impoverished Tanzanian women leave their remote villages to road trip together on safari. These women have never been further than a few miles from their homes, let alone seen an elephant or a giraffe... but now things are different. Their lives have been forever changed from a simple micro loan. All the song and spirit on the bus prove that this is more than a much needed (and unheard of) "girls day out," it's also a triumph of the spirit.
Juma is a poor fisherman who loves telling tales. Amina is the girl who loves to hear his stories. They long to be together, but Amina's father, Ali, wants a better life for her. Ali thinks that he has found this in Yustus, a rich but self-serving young suitor.Juma must put everything on the line to save their love, but he must sacrifice more than he bargained for in order to succeed.
Mexican 16 terrorists decided to invade in African local banks which were keeping valuable things such as minerals but the local government hired a retired army Commando "Parker Jp"(Josephs Quartzy) who was a musician at that time to eradicate them.
Documentary about chimps in Gombe.
In 1928, Lady Heath became the first person to fly solo from Cape Town to London. Eighty-five years later, Tracey Curtis-Taylor set out in a vintage biplane to fly that adventure again. Following Tracey as she retraces the journey, The Aviatrix is more than just a film about the rapture of flying – it’s a story about living life on your own terms and having the courage and determination to realise your greatest dreams.