On a photo shoot in Ghana, an American model slips back in time, becomes enslaved on a plantation and bears witness to the agony of her ancestral past.
Burial of a Christian political activist in a Muslim cemetery forces a conflict imbued with religious fervor.
A penniless, fast-thinking musician buys a lottery ticket which he glues to his back door, in hopes of eventually retrieving his instrument from his exasperating landlady. The ticket wins, and our hero begins a harrowing odyssey throughout his shanty town, carrying the door on his shoulder all the time.
A college graduate returns to his Senegalese fishing village, enters politics, and takes two wives.
A disabled Senegalese girl, Sili, decides to do a “boy’s job” and starts selling newspapers on the streets of Dakar. Sili does a great job, but the boys are not happy. The story tells her battle of daring to imagine what she can be and not caring about what anyone else thinks.
Documentary footage of a Women’s Conference in Senegal.
Dramaan is the most popular man in Colobane, but when a woman from his past, now exorbitantly wealthy, returns to the town, things begin to change.
An artist paints a controversial mural of the Virgin Mary, then falls for the engaged teacher who posed for him.
The story of Deacon Paul Bogle. 30 years after the end of slavery in Jamaica, the Morant Bay Rebellion of 1865 provoked outrage in Victorian Britain shaping race and land attitudes. The story is constructed using extensive interviews with Paul Bogle's grand son as well as archive material.
When a Jamaican sprinter is disqualified from the Olympic Games, he enlists the help of a dishonored coach to start the first Jamaican Bobsled Team.
A single street vendor disguises herself for a dance contest, and pits her enemies against each other.
A police officer returns to his neighborhood in Kingston, Jamaica to find himself in conflict with his childhood friend who is now the right-hand-man of the local gang-lord in a gun-running racket.
A native of Cameroon finds a thriving African community when he enters Germany as an undocumented immigrant.
A man overcomes rivals in the criminal and spiritual world in order to raise the price for his bride.
Harare, 1990. Neria and Patrick, a married couple, both work and earn money in the city and live a modern egalitarian lifestyle. But when Patrick is killed in an accident, his family uses traditional Shona custom to deprive Neria of her property and children.
The film, recorded in Cuba 33 years after Shakur's exile, consists primarily of a personal interview with Assata herself on the day her mother died as she recounts her experience as a political prisoner in the United States.
A chronicle of New York's drag scene in the 1980s, focusing on balls, voguing, and the ambitions and dreams of those who gave the era its warmth and vitality.
An ethnic Indian family is expelled from Idi Amin's Uganda in 1972 and lives in Mississippi 17 years later. The dad sues Uganda to get his property back. The grown daughter falls in love with a Black man.
A fascinating revisionist perspective on Albert Schweitzer, Noble Peace Prize winner and secular saint of the colonial era. This film begins to rewrite the history of colonialism from the point of view of the colonized.
A TV drama on the attitude of employees in the workplace.
The second in a series of shorts for National Geographic, intended for teaching and which explains the geography of the Atlantic Region of Costa Rica.
In the equatorial forest of Congo Brazzaville and the Central African Republic, pygmies live. Over-exploitation and waste of resources have had a significant impact on the lives of Pygmies. The story is based on Mangala an old and wise voice of these disappearing people.
Evocation of the ruthless war from 1890 to 1894 which opposed the French colonial army of the young Ahydjere Behanzin, king and living god of Dahomey, ending in his surrender and his exile.
Documentary footage of the Carnival celebration in Guinea-Bissau
