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- Who really is the man behind "Curveball" and what decisive role did he play for the War in Iraq?
- In a racially-charged and violent 1950's rural South Africa, a liberal journalist recounts the epic chase, edge-of-your-seat capture and intriguing trial of a flamboyant, native "Robin Hood". His captivating re-imagining, paints a portrait of a divisive outlaw - hunted by the government, elusive even to his loved ones, all whilst remaining a champion of the disenchanted.
- A young, aspiring actor from upcountry Kenya dreams of becoming a success in the big city. In pursuit of this and to the chagrin of his brother and parents, he makes his way to Nairobi:the city of opportunity.
- Academy Award-nominee Fernando Meirelles (City of God (2002)) and Malian musician Inna Modja take us on an epic journey to the frontline of the climate crisis along Africa's ambitious Great Green Wall.
- Five children in Swaziland dive into their imaginations to create an original African tale about a girl on a dangerous quest.
- Story of a young girl whose dream of becoming a superhero is threatened by terminal illness, inspiring her village to rally together to make her dream come true.
- Ten-year-old Aisha's latest school assignment asks her to say what she wants to be when she grows up. She soon realises that all her classmates have written that they are going to take over their parents' businesses or follow them into their professions. Aisha has bigger dreams: she wants to go to Europe and become an actress. How to do it? Her plan is to find a job on a fishing boat so that she can sail all the way to Europe, but her mother thinks that fishing should be left to men. Aisha doesn't agree - and when she meets Hassan, a drunken fisherman who promises to teach her how to fish, she seizes her opportunity.
- A free-spirited young girl, in Lamu struggles to live out her unique dream of swimming in the ocean, against local customs and an arranged upper- class marriage. Does Subira have the courage to take her dream on, against all odds?
- A comedy centered on a failed American writer who enters into an affair after a chance encounter with a European dancer.
- Imagine that your parents are white but your skin colour is dark and they tell you that 's pure coincidence. This is what happened to a girl in East Berlin in the 1960s. Years before, a group of African men came to study in a village nearby. Here the East German woman Sigrid falls in love with Lucien from Togo and gets pregnant. But she is already married to Armin. The child is filmmaker Ines Johnson-Spain. Meeting her stepfather Armin and others from her childhood years, she tracks the astonishing strategies of denial her parents and the surroundings had developed. In an intimate portrayal but also critical exploration she brings together painful and confusing childhood memories with matter-of-fact accounts that testify a culture of rejection and tight-lipped denial. Yet, the movingly warm encounters with her Togolese family develop Becoming Black also into a reflection on themes such as identity, social norms and family ties, seen from a very personal perspective.
- A very dangerous train journey through war torn Mozambique. Civilian passengers are both protected and harassed by a troop of ill-disciplined soldiers on board to fight off a rebel army in the bush. All must work together to repair sabotaged track and reach safety.
- Young millennial German fueled by wanderlust and a lack of real world responsibilities travels the globe by bike, peddling across 22 countries and over 20,000 kms to find meaning in life. Leverages power of social media and parental support to overcome obstacles.
- A young woman with no memory of her life or death, is helped with assimilation to the afterlife by a ghost.
- After the murder and rape of his sister, the only surviving member of his family. Rev. Frank loses his faith and undergoes a personal transformation.
- Many Somali refugees dream of a better life in the US. In order to get there, they have to cheat American authorities in an unprecedented way. But isn't a life in freedom worth the biggest scam of all times?
- This story deals with aspects of the European Colonization of the African continent in a very simple but unique way. The story also suggests that, both the Black Man and the White Man worship the same Almighty God but through different mediums.
- A Kenyan boy goes on a strange journey to return his father's soul.
- Based on the mysterious legend of Idilia Dubb. Germany, 19th century, in the Middle Rhine Valley. 17-year-old Idilia (Lea van Acken) wakes up badly injured in the middle of a gloomy castle ruin and can remember nothing. She is horrified to discover that there seems to be no escape for her. Only her diary can help her decipher her past and reveals a secret romance with Caven (Eric Kabongo), an Abyssinian showman who has to work for Idilia's fiancé Franz Hagerberg (André M. Hennicke) at his human zoo exhibition. The young woman's struggle for survival and her slowly returning memory blur reality and fantasy.
- For ten years two best friends Kristin and Val shared a small apartment in Hamburg, Germany. In these ten years they grew up, became independent women and inseparable friends. Now their individual paths lead them into different directions and soon they will be living on different continents. Before this happens, they decide to go on a big adventure together to focus on their friendship. A four week long hike through the Himalayan Mountains in Nepal, allows them to share thoughts and challenge their deep connection. Together Free is a heartfelt ode to friendship and the importance of friendship.
- A Chinese family saga, told in different periods of time, commencing with the wife's discovery of her husband's homosexuality. When her adult daughter comes to visit, other secrets slowly come to light.
- A poor but ambitious fisherman enslaves a mermaid-like water spirit and exploits her and her abilities for wealth and power.
- A courageous and determined young woman talks about her experiences going through Female Genital Mutilation and the need to undergo a reconstructive surgery on her genitals.
- A couple having been married for 19 years and blessed with one daughter but the woman is unable to conceive again and the man can't continue to pretend to be content in having only one child. So he marries a second wife to give him a son.
- Safari is a family adventure movie which follows a timid boy who, captive in his rural home, escapes in an attempt to experience Kenya for the first time.
- A fast-paced journey through the history of Nollywood and an insight into the turbulent current dynamics of the film industry based in Lagos.
- Lusala, adopted by an affluent Nairobi family a decade ago is imposed on to leave home and start on his own. Eager and willing at first, he makes the most of his life, until the demons from his past return, and he faces them on his own.
- A man has to come to terms with his dark secret and choose between keeping his family or accepting a life of possible loneliness and rejection.
- A struggling college student looking to make ends meet, gets in over his head when he embarks on a criminal enterprise.
- Follows the lives of multiple characters trying to find themselves in a world of political intrigue, revenge, love and longings for success complemented by the background of their thriving yet unregulated business.
- In the German city of Ludwigshafen on the Rhine river lives a man who fixes cars in his own car shop while at the same time being king to over 200,000 people in Ghana. King Céphas Bansah, who has lived in Germany since 1970, governs his people from Ludwigshafen. He travels to West Africa several times a year to check on his aid projects and to be available to people on site. His daughter Katharina (38), whose mother is German, was born and raised in Ludwigshafen. She is a free-lance graphic designer, a feminist free spirit, an artist, hippie and: a king's daughter. In recent years, father and daughter have been experiencing a growing hostility towards them from the white German majority society. Their reactions to that experience could not be more different. He - the exotic majesty - thinks assimilation and gratitude are key to successful integration. He successfully finances major essential aid projects in Ghana with the help of German donors. She, on the other hand, is sick and tired of proving to be 'German enough': "I have tried everything. But it's never enough. And if it isn't enough, I don't want it to be enough. If that's the case, I have to find other solutions for my life." Father and daughter go on a journey together. For the first time after many years, Katharina accompanies her father to his kingdom in Ghana. She wants to get back in touch with that part of her identity, she wants to recharge her spiritual batteries and figure out if she wants to succeed to the throne someday. On this intense journey, Katharina sees her father with new eyes and realizes the meaning her Ghanaian side has for her life - and which it does not.
- Grieving the loss of his wife and driven by the search for meaning in his life, German composer Ralf Kemper risks his fortune and sanity by realizing his life-long dream to produce a jazz record for ailing jazz icon Jimmy Scott.
- Ni Sisi tells the story of a typical Kenyan village, a harmonious muddle of tribes, intermarriages and extended families, in the context of post-election violence. The characters explore issues of corruption, political bribery, racism and gossip. Friends who have lived and worked together all their lives are consumed by rumors and mistrust. However, horrific consequences are avoided when the community pulls together to avert further violence. The hopeful and empowering message of Ni Sisi is one of personal responsibility; that both individuals and communities have the power to control what happens to them and that racist attitudes and negative stereotypes of other tribes can be overcome. Ni Sisi enables the audience to discuss the 2008 post election violence and understand the futility of violence.
- After celebrating Sasha's birthday with bottles of beers and whiskies, her three friends, Johnn, Tom, and Sam decide to take her to a nearby town for more celebrations but on their way, their car hits and kills a passerby on a lonesome road. They decide to hide the crime as Johnny, the governor's son argues that it will negatively influence his father's political career. However, on their way to bury the corpse, their car is stopped by a police officer and as the officer discovers the corpse, he is shot dead by Johnny but unfortunately during the clash, the officers shoots at Sam. To cover up this new crime three other people will die.
- A girl falls in love with a married man she gets pregnant and she gets dumped. She then decides to leave her young baby near a clinic. Sibiya adopts the child, later on Mr. Sibiya falls in love with the biological mother of the child without knowing. After Mr. Sibaya passes away, Connie decides to make the child a prostitute without knowing its the child she dumped years ago.
- Emem is a 37-year old woman in a rocky marriage not helped by the fact that her teenage son from a previous relationship, Bassey, always gets in trouble, drawing the angst of his stepfather Tamuno. Emem decides to take him to stay with her Widower Father; Dr. Udoh who had retired and has been living in his country home since the death pf his wife. Bassey who has always searched for a place to belong finds it in his Grandfather's home. They form a bond which transcends that of relatives and he has to help his Grandfather who has a love trouble of his own; He is smitten by a nurse he meets on one of his walks but he has never been with another woman aside his late wife who he had been married to for over 53 years. Emem is still dealing with her crumbling marriage and is tempted when a wild painter she interviews for her magazine falls in love with her. Bassey also somehow gets entangled with an emotionally unavailable girl and all three are trying to overcome their loneliness.
- A successful divorce attorney finds himself in a forbidden affair with one of his clients Diane who is going through a bad divorce and this throws his world upside down which leads to a series of unfortunate events
- When a mysterious gangster starts sabotaging soccer team The Eagles' chance at winning the upcoming championship final, there is only one man who can save the day...Joe Bullet.
- Chief Donald intends to spend the rest of his life in perfect celibacy. But his adventurous past eventually catches up with him, when he suddenly discovers he fathered many children with several women during the days of his youth.
- This documentary follows a family of four on their monthslong road trip across South America as they go on adventures and face new challenges.
- Newly Married couple devised a baleful means to make each other conform to what is acceptable in a home as their differences truncated their expectation.
- Atanásio Nhussi, a compelling storyteller and legendary Mapiko dancer, takes us on a visually dramatic journey through Mozambique's past and present.
- Mino's refusal to be married through traditional rite plunges her village into an oppressive tyrannical rule by a rogue chief's son driving her deep into the forest, but her return changes the destiny of her people.
- Ethiopian farmers and a team of international architects come together, in order to find a solution for the increasing rural exodus. Might a sustainable model city be the solution for the global urbanization crisis?
- Tania Libre is a documentary film about internationally renowned Cuban artist Tania Bruguera by Lynn Hershman Leeson, narrated by Tilda Swinton.
- It all started with a small exercise book. Its page were checkered with the courageous testimonies of 300 Central African women, girls and men. They reveal what Congolese mercenaries did to them. On their own initiative, they gathered together their testimonies in this book. Swiss-German documentary, which premiered at the 2016 Semaine de la Critique of the Locarno Film Festival, where it received the Zonta Club Award.
- A young girl escapes from a notorious gang and finds herself in a deep forest. What happens when she decides to go back and rescue the rest with a rescue team?
- SAMIRA, a street child with her siblings has experienced the hard times living without a home and in hunger. She believes going to school can bring her out of her situation but unfortunately the society around her gives no consolation to her and her siblings. As she struggles to help herself and her siblings, her vulnerability explains her fate as a child.
- This film charts the final year in office of South Africa's Public Protector, Thuli Madonsela, as she attempts to bring justice to ordinary people. After successfully challenging President Zuma for illegal use of state funds, she now has to face the biggest challenge of her career: investigating - in the face of protests, death threats and legal challenges - the alleged systematic takeover of government by a private family in cahoots with the President. But how does one weigh the importance of fighting government corruption against the larger moral crime of continued inequality? WHISPERING TRUTH TO POWER documents the tense story of Madonsela's last year in public office while simultaneously crafting an absorbing tale of an outstanding lawyer, mother and woman, and also providing insight into several critical issues facing South Africa today, such as ongoing inequality, racial tensions, land redistribution, and corruption.
- Trap House is about three young students who are forced to live together to cut costs because of lack of accommodation in Campus.