Screenings/Awards: Since made this has been a very sourced after film. It has been screened at UNESCO, at Cannes 2024, the highlight of Africa Day 2024 it has been projected throughout Africa and around the world. African Glory is a powerful documentary film about one of the world’s least known historical accounts that was referred […]
Can a country be truly independent if its currency is still controlled by its former colonial oppressors? The director traces the history of a currency whose roots lie in compensation for slave owners. Originally used by countries in Central and West Africa, the currency was pegged to the French franc. While France publicly touted the […]
Screening/Awards: Joburg International Film Festival 2022 Loboloa is an autobiographical documentary from SAFTA-winning filmmaker Sihle Hlophe. March 2014, Sihle has just gotten engaged. A few days later, her father has passed away. Sihle is in a serious fix – who will receive the Lobola now that her father is no more? Sihle respects Lobola but she […]
Screenings/Awards: FESPACO 2023, Sheffield DocFest 2023 The Director Allamine kadar Kora visits his mother’s village on the edge of the Chadian desert where there has been a drought. The male village elders and religious figures believe that the source of this calamity is caused by all the unmarried women in the village. The men convene […]
Awards/Screening: FESPACO 2023, Canada Vues d’Afrique Montréal 2024 This is a great educational documentary for bee lovers, children and almost everyone who is interested in protecting our environment and the biodiversity. Di Den means bee in Bambara. Di Den, a little bee–nature’s storyteller… In Mali, she’s a healer, messenger, warrior & more. While the Malian […]
A topical must watch, “Combing through Hairitage” is an insightful documentary that explores the profound relationship between African women and their hair. It engages with the complex interplay between the natural black hair movement and the prevalent trend of sourced hair. Tracing the historical trajectory of black hair, the documentary offers a glimpse into the […]
Awards/Screening: Best Documentary, Zimbabwe International Film Festival 2022 Every year, over a hundred of the most talented law students from across the African continent gather in a different capital city to compete at the prestigious African Human Rights Moot Competition, the largest mock court competition in Africa. At the competition, these young aspiring lawyers act […]
Premiered at NY Film Festival There aren’t enough words in such a short space to do justice to this extraordinary piece of work. Abderrhamane Sissako, who won an Academy award for his film “Timbuktu”, directs an opera for the first time in his career, and award-winning director Charles Castello makes a documentary about the rehearsals. […]
A short documentary showing the beautiful mountain wilderness of St Catherine in the Sinai desert, a holy place which has always been on the path of the prophets as they crossed between Israel and Egypt, and now a centre of herb and plant research as well as a sanctuary. […]
Ousmane Sembene Short Film Award, 2021; Los Angeles Cinematography Award 2020; Nomination: Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Diaspora Documentary This short film explores the origins of a mysterious Kenyan object that has been found in the archives of a German museum. The only information about it is that it entered the museum in 1903; […]
Best documentary, 7th Rustenburg FF; Calgary Black FF; Halifax Black FF In 1988, Dulcie September, a member of the ANC living in Paris, was assassinated as she entered an elevator at her apartment building. The murderer was never found and the crime never investigated properly. Now, in 2021 director Enver Samuel has made a powerful […]
Special Jury Recognition, and honours for 10 episodes at Jackson Wild Media Festival, USA We have selected three documentaries together from a unique and inspiring wildlife documentary series, Wildlife Warriors, made for Kenyan TV by a Kenyan film crew and local conservationists, and hosted by award-winning conservationist Paula Kahumbu. Each episode in the series showcases […]
