Two Kenyan women transform an old, decrepit library in Nairobi which is full of ‘white man’s books’ dating from the colonial period, with the broader aim of de-colonising the libraries of Kenya. They have many obstacles to overcome, but they have the support of people of influence in the city, and are committed to the […]
The big city of Lagos and its inhabitants are the focus of this fast-moving, intense thriller from Nigeria. Government laws and powerful competitors threaten a start-up company by two young, enterprising software engineers, to provide a motorcycle ride-sharing service. Its success becomes known to corrupt police and government ministers, who want to get it banned. […]
Ntare Mwine’s chance encounter with photographer Kibaate Aloysius Ssalongo, when his car breaks down in Kibaate’s village, becomes a 22 year journey exploring Kibaate’s life and photography. Simultaneously the relationship between the two hugely impacts Ntare himself, as well as the community whose photographic portraits Kibaate made a generation ago. A complex and intimate picture […]
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl is a bold, captivating film that exposes the silence surrounding taboo issues like sexual abuse within families, while exploring Zambia’s powerful mourning rituals. Rungano Nyoni weaves humour into hard truths, making the story both engaging and confronting. What stands out above all is the power of women in Zambian society, […]
Tolerance between the three main religions of Mali, Islam, Christianity and Animism, has always been a proud feature of Malian culture, in a country which focuses on fostering social harmony. Sanko-God’s Dream explores this tolerance in the context of a succession struggle for a new imam of Sanko after the death of its loved and […]
This is a dramatised version of the work/life of Ibrahim Traore, the president of Burkina Faso, in protest against the realities of West African politics today. Ibrahim Traore’s vision to free Africa is shaking the ruling class of Africa and mobilising the African youth to free themselves of the post-colonial economic yoke of Europe. Ibrahim […]
In this extraordinary modern rendering of Macbeth, director Dani Kouyate has combined both traditional and modern West African flavours to create the atmospheric tragedy that Shakespeare’s Macbeth requires. Dani himself is a filmmaker, musician and storyteller from a lineage of Griots, traditional West African storytellers and keepers of history, as well as being a professor […]
‘Fish Out Of Water’ is a local feature film starring Namibian model and reality TV personality, Maria Nepembe and the film ‘Katutura’ lead, actress and socialite Tjuna Kauapirurua. The film narrates the story of Maila, a young woman who sets off from the rural areas to Luderitz, hoping to land a job at the fish […]
Condemned to an early death from birth, young Muzamil waits despairingly for the day he will turn 20 and die. His father, grief-stricken by the holy prophecy, has already abandoned him, while his mother mourns her son in the only way she knows how – to protect him from the world. Hope flickers in the […]
