African Movies

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

A short drama about a library cleaner who plans a final return to Nigeria, his birth country.

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

Lindani, a neurotic young trans man, struggles to tell his partner Tam he loves them after a random encounter with a stranger shakes his self-confiden...

Nwa is in torment for not being able to have children.

A Wildlife Safari through Africa.

A widowed single mother with a small fortune finds love again with a much younger man who she comes to learn is operating with a hidden agenda.

This story humorously uses different events to explore the habit of late coming among Africans. While addressing some of the challenges that several A...

Ire loses his innocence in the most brutal way.

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

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 h...

An introspective look at a young black man, Sammy, and how being pushed away from his passion leads to his breakdown. Cracked explores passion, addict...

Out of Darkness is a full length three-part documentary by director Amadeuz Christ (Δ+),examining the untold history of African people, the African c...

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 wan...

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 imag...

A woman on the run for murder finds a man who thinks of suicide and they spent the longest 24 hours of their lives in a studio photographic.

An account of the victims of the Sierra Leone Civil War and depicts the most brutal period with the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels capturing...

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.

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 n...

Four young people from Tanzania and Cameroon complete a year of weltwärts voluntary service in Germany. For each of them, it is their first visit in E...