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Hotel Rwanda(2004)

PG-13
| 2h 1min | Drama, History, War
3.9/5 (with 1,239 votes)

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.

The Mummy(1932)

NR
| 1h 13min | Horror, Drama, Fantasy
3.4/5 (with 250 votes)

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.

In My Country(2017)

1h 39min | Drama

A teacher turns to a dubious man to raise money for her daughter's life saving surgery, a crisis that is unexpectedly catapulted to a national stage.

Hyenas(1992)

1h 50min | Drama, Comedy
3.6/5 (with 13 votes)

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.

Journey to Ouaga(2001)

1h 24min | Drama
2.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Lionel, a young Frenchman, who has just arrived in Cotonou, Benin, loses his car, airplane ticket and passport and his hopes in riots in the city.

Directed by Camille Mouyéké

Disconnect(2018)

1.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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

Directed by David Gitonga, Michael Jones

Ganga Zumba(1963)

1h 40min | Drama, History
3.3/5 (with 4 votes)

The life of a runaway slave who founded the Quilombo dos Palmares, an outlaw community of Brazilian slaves.

Directed by Carlos Diegues - With Léa Garcia

Qui sème l'amour...(2016)

3.2/5 (with 7 votes)

- No description / details available yet. -

Directed by Lorenzo Gabriele

Karmen Gei(2001)

2.1/5 (with 3 votes)

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.

Directed by Joseph Gaï Ramaka

Albert Schweitzer(1957)

1h 25min | Documentary, History
3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

- No description / details available yet. -

African Time(2014)

1h 30min | Comedy

This story humorously uses different events to explore the habit of late coming among Africans. While addressing some of the challenges that several Africans face with being on time, the story also unveils how to combat the infamous African Time. Ironically, many Africans that are late to various social events are seldom late to work and other self-benefiting engagements.

The Fair Weather Felon(2015)

21min | Crime, Drama

A young thief breaks into a house and gets caught in the act by a young attractive girl. He falls in love with the girl but the girl betrays him.

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The New Country(2000)

2h 8min | Drama, Comedy
3.6/5 (with 8 votes)

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.

A Story-A Story(1973)

Ananse the Spider Man climbs up to the sky to buy stories from the Sky God in this folktale from Africa.

Medea(1973)

Ben Caldwell’s Medea, a collage piece made on an animation stand and edited entirely in the camera, combines live action and rapidly edited still images of Africans and African Americans which function like flashes of history that the unborn child will inherit. Caldwell invokes Amiri Baraka’s poem “Part of the Doctrine” in this experimental meditation on art history, Black imagery, identity and heritage.

Out of Darkness(2016)

3h 12min | Documentary

Out of Darkness is a full length three-part documentary by director Amadeuz Christ (Δ+), examining the untold history of African people, the African cultural contribution to the nations of the world, and the events that have contributed to the condition of African people today. Out of Darkness will explore the Nubian/Kushitic origins of Nile Valley Civilization, contact between Africa and the Americas since the times of antiquity, as well as the influence of the Moors in Europe leading to Europe’s intellectual Renaissance. In addition, the film will analyze the history of modern day racism, the concept of “white supremacy,” the impact of Hip Hop as a social movement, and the idea of nationhood. Out of Darkness is narrated by Prof. Kaba Kamene and co-stars Dr. Umar Johnson, Dr. Claud Anderson, Tim Wise, Prof. James Small, Dr. Joy DeGruy, Anthony Browder, Sabir Bey, Atlantis Browder, and Taj Tarik Bey.

Directed by Amadeuz Christ

The Nine Muses(2010)

1h 34min | Documentary, History
2.3/5 (with 2 votes)

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.

Directed by John Akomfrah

The Adventure(2013)

In 2011, as tens of thousands of migrants, Loss, and Madess Moussa arrived in Europe via Turkey. Required by EU law to remain in Greece, they only want one thing : to leave. Therefore earn the money needed to start is an obsession and all means are good. The film "The Adventure" follows the lives of these three Ivorians to Athens - their sense of enclosure, strategies to find money, failover illegally, attempts to start - and explores what is at stake, individually and collectively during migration: relations to other migrant communities, friendship, betrayal, solidarity, mafias and violence.

Jirimpimbira: An African Folk Tale(1995)

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.

Little by Little(1970)

1h 36min | Comedy, Drama
3.6/5 (with 5 votes)

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

The Black Wogs, Your Neighbors(1974)

3h 10min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A lucid, sincere and intricate political film, it demonstrates how French neocolonialism exploits migrant labor and exerts a cultural imperialism over their minds.

Directed by Med Hondo

El Limpiabotas(2009)

1h 9min | Action, Drama, Crime
1.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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.

Return to Gorée(2007)

1h 50min | Music, Documentary
4.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Because jazz is the miraculous product of the horror of slavery, Youssou N'Dour returned to the slave route and the music they created, in search of new inspiration. Accompanied by the blind Swiss pianist Moncef Genoud and the Director of the Gorée House of Slaves Museum, Joseph N'Diaye, the Senegalese singer wrote new songs during this initiatory voyage which took him to the USA then to Europe. At Gorée, an island just off the Senegalese coast and symbol of the slave trade, his memorable concert marked the end of this quest and the start of a new challenge: making today's generation aware of the tragedy of slavery, the importance of not forgetting and the need for reconciliation.

Cracked(2022)

20min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 1 vote)

An introspective look at a young black man, Sammy, and how being pushed away from his passion leads to his breakdown. Cracked explores passion, addiction, toxic masculinity and their effects on Sammy and his loved ones.

A Cemetery of Doves(2019)

15min | Drama
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A teenager discovers his sexuality in a society where he is best to keep such findings secret.

Culture Shock(2014)

20min | Drama

A 45 your old African living in Australia from Burundi does not have an easy life. He does not speak English well, he has issues even doing his simple job as a cleaner as he does not understand what the boss Mathew wants from him at certain times. He rather puts all his hopes into the future of his two children, his teenage son Dieudonne and his little daughter Aline as he wants them to study hard to embrace Australian culture, but never forget their African roots and make a successful life. Dieudonne does not care about his father's desire, he's a known troublemaker at school. He misleads his father by telling him that he is doing remarkably well in his studies.

Adrift: People of a Lesser God(2010)

ADRIFT- People of a Lesser God is the story of an incredible odyssey made by several-times Pulitzer Prize-nominated undercover reporter Dominique C. Mollard. In this gripping story, Mollard sails with 38 African migrants, among them a five-month-old baby, out of West Africa on a quest to reach the golden shores of Europe. All aboard are packed together like sardines in a leaky fishing canoe as they set off under full moon on their harrowing journey. ADRIFT-People of a Lesser God captures the struggle of these desperate migrants as they brave their way across the cold Atlantic, risking their lives in search for a better future. —Ziad H. Hamzeh.

GOLDS(2021)

"Golds" follows Mercy, a young boy who lives in a poor neighborhood with his ill mom who can not afford the medical attention she needs. Mercy comes up with a creative way to raise money for his mom.

The Scientist of Sound(2017)

Thursday 27th of October 2016 – Teatro Espace, Turin. Mulatu Astatke is a musician, composer, arranger and Ethiopia’s cultural ambassador. He’s known as the godfather of ethiojazz, a unique blend of jazz, traditional Ethiopian music, latin, caribbean reggae and afrofunk. Born in 1943 in Jimma, Mulatu studied music not only in Ethiopia but also in UK and USA. In 2005 he contributed to the soundtrack of Jim Jarmusch’s film “Broken Flowers”, reaching a new public worldwide.

Nationality: Immigrant(1975)

1h 25min | Drama

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...

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