African Movies

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...

An ancient Egyptian priest named Imhotep is revived when a British archaeological expedition finds his mummy and one of the researchers accidentally...

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

This biographical docudrama traces the life of Dr. Albert Schweitzer, from his birth in Alsace, up to the age of 30 when he made the decision to go...

Bizet's Carmen gets a modern adaptation. Seducting, provocating, sensual. All the ingredients for a perfect drama. With her charm, Karmen gets out of...

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...

In the sprawling African metropolis of Lagos, a fiercely independent young cab driver meets a band of radiantly reckless sex workers whose sisterhood...

Ben Caldwell’s Medea, a collage piece made on an animation stand and edited entirely in the camera, combines live action and rapidly edited...

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...

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

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...

An animated horror short about a Nigerian-American teenager returning to Nigeria after the death of her grandfather.

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

Ire loses his innocence in the most brutal way.

Part 1: Ebo and Suzy are told that his surgery was successful except that an irremovable obstruction has made him sterile. Three years have passed...

Starvation, suspicion and madness plague a group of 1846 settlers as they journey across the Kalahari under the eyes of two desert spirits.

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

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...

A young woman imagines a digitally controlled transhuman life.