Africa: Race, Identity, and Ethnicity
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- DirectorMweze NganguraStarsGérard EssombaDominique MesaHerbert FlackA Congonese king arrives in Brussels in search of his long-lost daughter.
- DirectorLeon GastStarsMuhammad AliGeorge ForemanDon KingBoxing documentary on the 1974 world heavyweight championship bout between defending champion, George Foreman, and the underdog challenger, Muhammad Ali.
- DirectorS. Pierre YameogoStarsSerge BayalaPierre-Loup RajotAnne RousselAn African student stranded in Paris after losing his government grant discovers a bag of drugs and money while working as a parking garage attendant.
- DirectorJihan El-TahriFrom Che Guevara's military campaign to avenge Lumumba in the Congo up to the fall of apartheid in South Africa, 300,000 Cubans fought alongside African revolutionaries. CUBA, AN AFRICAN ODYSSEY is the previously untold story of Cuba's support for African revolutions, one of the Cold War's most vigorous contests over resources and ideology.
- DirectorMama KeïtaStarsStomy BugsyVincent Byrd Le SageAurélie CoulibalyAfter having avenged the death of his best friend by committing a murder, a man returns to his native country, Guinea.
- DirectorTunde KelaniStarsOjuolape AbayomiUche Ama AbrielMotunrayo AdeoyeThunderbolt: Magun centers around the life of a young, married woman who is struck with an unorthodox African illness and has to find a cure before it claims her life.
- DirectorZola MasekoStarsTaye DiggsGabriel MannTumisho MashaA hot-shot journalist is swept up in a movement to challenge Apartheid in 1950s South Africa.
- DirectorSarah BouyainStarsDorylia CalmelAssita OuedraogoBlandine YaméogoA biracial woman travels from France to Burkina Faso in search of her mother. In France, a white woman seeks to learn an African language for reasons unknown.
- DirectorJohn KaniStarsJohn KaniRosie MoteneMotshabi TyeleleAfter his brothers death a man plans his funeral but things don't go as planned as his relatives have to come to terms with the fact that he wasn't the man everyone thought he was
- DirectorZola MasekoThe story of Sarah Baartman with the artist name "The Hottentot Venus" from South Africa. She was in 1789 exportet to Europe and travelled around in Eroupa in a freak show as an example as a missing link because of her baboon apron (extreemly oversized labia).After her death her skeleton and labia were exhibitionned in the mused de l'hommes in Paris .In 1974 her remains were stowed away. In 1994 South Africa made claim on her remains and in 2002 she was disclosed to South Africa and got a burial with national honor near her birth place in South Africa .
- DirectorAlain GomisStarsDjolof MbengueDelphine ZinggSamir GuesmiEl Hadj is studying in Paris. He is one of the young Senegalese men who have come to Paris since the French colony became independent to get a good education so that he can serve his fatherland on his return. Unexpectedly he is suddenly confronted by a problem with his residence papers, just because he has arranged an extension too late. His pleasant life filled with good prospects has gone in one fell swoop. He faces a dilemma. He can stay illegally in France, the country where he feels at home, where he has his friends, has fallen in love and can drink water from the tap. Or he can return (without graduating) to the 3rd-world country of Senegal to use the knowledge he has acquired. It is not only a practical choice. It comes down to the question of who he is, who he thought he could be. Gomis' impressive feature début looks at the theme of uprooting both on an existential and emotional level. The everyday confrontation with a different culture makes an apparently simple project difficult and chaotic. Gomis: 'Exile means distancing oneself: abroad you are confronted with yourself. Who are we and which of our thoughts can resist the obtrusiveness of the other world? Probably only that which is really our own essence.'
- DirectorNewton I. AduakaStarsFraser AyresShaun ParkesJohn PickardFraser Ayres stars as Jamie, also known as Rage, a mixed-race, angry youth living on a grim council estate in South London. He is part of a rap trio with his two friends Godwin and Thomas.
- DirectorGaston KaboréStarsJean-Claude BamogoAbderramane BoufachaAlassane DakissagaIn an early 19th century African village, Wend Kuuni - a young man, lives with his adopted family after his mother was killed as a witch. When Pughneere - his adopted sister - becomes ill, the villagers suspect Wend Kuuni. In order to save Pughneere's life (and his own) he must set out on a journey to find a healer. His quest brings him in contact with people around him and is a journey of self-discovery.
- DirectorAbdoulaye AscofareStarsAminata OusmaneBalla Moussa KeitaSafiatou MahamaneThe story of Zamiatou, a Songhaï woman, in North Eastern Mali. With two young sons, a pretty daughter and a handicapped husband, Zamiatou struggles to survive in a remote and barren area. She doesn't want her daughter to "work" for white people, but her determination will take her far from her family
- DirectorLeão LopesStarsMarina AlbuquerqueFernanda AlvesSimão Pedro AlvesCape Verde, 1964. At the feet of a mighty volcano, the traditional Cape Verdean society is undergoing a steady change. The old land-owning aristocracy is disintegrating. A class of "mulattos" begins to emerge, with a trade-based financial power that threatens the landlords. A new identity arises, a mix of old and new, of African and Portuguese culture, sensual and dynamic. The songs of Cesária Évora follow this inevitable transformation. From the novel by Henrique Teixeira de Sousa.
- DirectorGaston KaboréStarsMathias BayiliColette KaboréJoseph NikiemaIn the Mossi culture, one of the rites attending the birth of a child and its induction as a new member of the community involves the burial of the placenta. The space in which the placenta is buried is called 'Zan Boko' - a phrase which connotes the religious, cultural and affective relations that bind the child to the land and that embraces the notions of 'rootedness' and 'belonging'. Kaboré tells the story of Tinga, who resists the encroaching urbanization of his native territory. The specific rhythms and vision of the rural community, including its values, social relationship, and individual & collective destinies, are altered when a city is planted on the edge of an ancient native village.
- DirectorConnie FieldStarsAlfre WoodardThe cinematic history of the worldwide effort to destroy South African apartheid, a story that has never been told before in any medium. An epic 7-film history on how a violent, racist, intractable government was destroyed by the concerted efforts of men and women working on multiple fronts inside and outside South Africa for more than four decades. The series follows three generations of the struggle inside South Africa and battles waged in sports arena, cathedrals, embassies,corporate boardrooms, rock concerts and gas stations around the globe, culminating in the most globalized human rights struggle in history.
- DirectorJustin ChadwickStarsIdris ElbaNaomie HarrisTerry PhetoA chronicle of Nelson Mandela's life journey from his childhood in a rural village through to his inauguration as the first democratically elected president of South Africa.
- DirectorMalik BendjelloulStarsRodriguezStephen 'Sugar' SegermanDennis CoffeyTwo South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock n roller, Rodriguez.
- DirectorAnnalet SteenkampFollows four generations of South African Boers as they grapple with their identity as white farmers in a post-Apartheid South Africa, where land ownership is highly contentious and violence and racism are endemic.
- DirectorVic SarinStarsJoyce LaoaganJaden RainJasmine Sky SarinA documentary that weaves together personal journeys, historical facts and expert analysis to show the world through the eyes of those touched by the issue of "colourism".
- DirectorYamina BenguiguiThis is the story of the few people who went ahead, beyond racial prejudice. And their struggle to open the workplace to other people.
- DirectorGhislain CloquetChris MarkerAlain ResnaisStarsJean NégroniFrançois MitterrandPope Pius XIIA documentary of black art.
- DirectorEuzhan PalcyStarsDonald SutherlandJanet SuzmanZakes MokaeA white middle class South African suburbanite with no interest in politics agrees to help his black gardener find his jailed son. His investigation opens his eyes to the horrors committed by the secret police and turns him into a target.