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Movies: Best Movies in Hausa

Hausa (Harshen/Halshen Hausa ; Ajami: هَرْشٜىٰن هَوْسَا) is a Chadic language that is spoken by the Hausa people in the northern parts of Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Benin and Togo, and the southern parts of Niger, and Chad, with significant minorities in Ivory Coast. A very small number of speakers also exist in Sudan. Hausa is a member of the Afroasiatic language family and is the most widely spoken language within the Chadic branch of that family. Ethnologue estimated that it was spoken as a first language by some 54 million people and as a second language by another 34 million, bringing the total number of Hausa speakers to an estimated 88 million. In Nigeria, the Hausa film industry is known as Kannywood. ()

Hausa is spoken in Nigeria, Ghana, Niger, Chad, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Benin and Togo and 4 movies (between 2015 and 2021) with this language have been recorded so far. Most of these movies were shot in Niger (2). Popular genres for Hausa movies are Documentary (2), Drama (2) and Adventure (1). The Milkmaid (2020), Fati’s Choice (2021), Zerzura (2017) and Rain the Color of Blue with a Little Red in It (2015) are among the best known & most successful Hausa movies.

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Rain the Color of Blue with a Little Red in It(2015)

1h 15min | Drama, Music, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 3 votes)

Prince goes Sahel in this colorful homage to Purple Rain. Set among the sub-Saharan Tuareg people, and reputedly the first feature film in their Tamashek language (which has no word for "purple," hence the title). Resplendent in a purple robe and matching chopper, smoking hot guitarist Mdou Moctar arrives in a music-mad Niger town and sets about wooing a local beauty, clashing with his pious father, and fencing with the jealous king of the local scene (Kader Tanoutanoute, as wily and dapper as Morris Day) until their climactic six-string shootout.

Directed by Christopher Kirkley

Zerzura(2017)

1h 27min | Adventure, Western, Documentary
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Zerzura is a feature-length ethnofiction shot in the Sahara desert. Mixing folktales and documentary, the film follows a young man from Niger who leaves home in search of an enchanted oasis.

Directed by Christopher Kirkley

The Milkmaid(2020)

2h 16min | Drama

A Fulani milkmaid confronts religious extremists in rural Sub-Saharan Africa in a quest to locate her missing sister, but efforts to recapture her disrupted past prove complicated.

Directed by Desmond Ovbiagele - With Maryam Booth

Fati’s Choice(2021)

45min | Documentary

A beach reminds us of Fati’s recent past. She came to Italy by sea, without papers, pregnant for the fifth time. Longing for her children, she returned to Ghana six months later – without her husband. The people around her can’t understand this decision. “You’ve created a mess,” a friend says. “How do I tell people?” a sister asks. But Fati wants to provide for her family, even though she still has to liberate three of her children from the custody of her in-laws.