Когато човек разбере за жестокостите, които са били извършени в Руанда, той никога няма да може да ги забрави. Докато страната му затъва във водовъртеж от лудост и насилие, мениджърът на пет звезден хотел Пол Русесбагина прави всичко възможно, за да спаси семейството си. Когато вижда, че западния свят няма да се намеси в организираното от екстремисти хуту клане на малцинственото племе тутси, Пол решава да даде подслон в хотела на 1200 бежанци. Сега когато жадните за кръв екстремисти са пред вратата му той трябва да използва целия си запас от харизма, дипломатичност и лукавство, за да спаси гостите си от сигурна смърт.
Действието на филма започва през 1921 ., когато археолози успяват да открият древна гробница на египетския жрец Имхотеп, който бил осъден да бъде изгорен, заради прегрешения извършени преди 3700 години. Един от членовете на експедицията намира Свитък на Тот и прочитайки го на глас, съживява мумията. След десет години, водачът на тази експедиция и синът му се връщат на мястото на разкопките в компанията на тайнствения египтянин Ардет бей, който без те да знаят, е възкръсналата мумия. Той се надява с намерения от археолозите свитък, да съживи своята любима, но не знае, че сега душата й е в тялото на красива жена, която неизбежно ще умре, ако той накара свитъка да изпълни предназначението си...
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 to French Equatorial Africa and build his jungle hospital. The latter half of the film encompasses a full day in the hospital-village, following the octogenarian Samaritan in his daily rounds.
A young African boy with a haunting back story starts school in Ireland, and finds out quickly exactly what it means to be the new kid. Winner of Best Narrative Short at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival and nominated for an Oscar.
A brave boy named Temba ventures to find food and water for his drought-striken village. But when he is given a set of magical bones, he uses them to gain riches for himself instead of sharing with his friends.
Ben Caldwell’s Medea, a collage piece made on an animation stand and edited entirely in the camera, combines live action and rapidly edited still images of Africans and African Americans which function like flashes of history that the unborn child will inherit. Caldwell invokes Amiri Baraka’s poem “Part of the Doctrine” in this experimental meditation on art history, Black imagery, identity and heritage.
On 27 March 2007 a Pan Africanist named Toyin Agbetu challenged the British Government, Monarchy and Church as they gathered to hold a religious celebration for the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act in Westminster Abbey, England. Toyin, who condemned the service as an insult and disgrace, halted the proceedings with words that gave a voice to the collective view of millions around the world. As Maafa truths were revealed he was demonised and misrepresented in the British media as a ‘lone madman’. Watch the restored uncensored footage of what happened that day and afterwards when the African community in Britain stood beside him - from his arrest and incarceration to the eventual dropping of all criminal charges. Directed by Toyin Agbetu Produced by emma pierre
The film deals with the judgment of the so-called "compromised", who integrated the colonial apparatus. At Josina Machel school, in an amphitheater with a full audience and balcony, there is a stage where Samora Machel and the members of the Frelimo political committee are located. He records Samora, an impeccable political actor, sometimes histrionic, in the role that he is attributed as the animator of the scene in the trial.
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 earlier abandoned her and left her with his child.
A Cape Town couple, Katherine and Hugh, are headed to their private mountain getaway, when they pick up a hitchhiker, Liza, who carries a gun. Liza is invited for lunch, but soon the couple can't get rid of her.
Part documentary, part personal essay, this experimental film combines archive imagery with the striking wintry landscapes of Alaska to tell the story of immigrant experience coming into the UK from 1960 onwards.
As beautiful and sleek as it is deadly, 52 Blocks merits special conservation efforts as the United States' only existing native martial culture, as it is indeed, the jazz of the martial arts world. Across the African diaspora, there are manifestations of African-derived warrior-dances, capoeira in brazil, mani in Cuba, ladja in Martinique, pinge in Haiti- yet the US offshoot has remained esoteric, because it was suppressed throughout slavery, Reconstruction and Jim Crow and then obscured in the criminal justice system. The history, interviews and training of the martial arts style that created Breakdance and boxing greats like Mike Tyson.
Sebari Milach is an awareness film aimed at showing the dark ritualistic practices of female circumcision illegally practiced in Africa. This film touches on a true story about a young Ethiopian girl who gets tricked by her mother into getting circumcised at a ritual purification ceremony shortly after her sister passed away from the same practice.
Thursday 27th of October 2016 – Teatro Espace, Turin. Mulatu Astatke is a musician, composer, arranger and Ethiopia’s cultural ambassador. He’s known as the godfather of ethiojazz, a unique blend of jazz, traditional Ethiopian music, latin, caribbean reggae and afrofunk. Born in 1943 in Jimma, Mulatu studied music not only in Ethiopia but also in UK and USA. In 2005 he contributed to the soundtrack of Jim Jarmusch’s film “Broken Flowers”, reaching a new public worldwide.
Lindani, a neurotic young trans man, struggles to tell his partner Tam he loves them after a random encounter with a stranger shakes his self-confidence. But as he finds himself pushed and pulled in all directions by the perceptions of others, can Lindani reconnect with himself enough to figure out how he really feels?
This story humorously uses different events to explore the habit of late coming among Africans. While addressing some of the challenges that several Africans face with being on time, the story also unveils how to combat the infamous African Time. Ironically, many Africans that are late to various social events are seldom late to work and other self-benefiting engagements.
Ganga Zumba се основава на едноименната книга на Жоао Фелисио дос Сантос, исторически роман за внука на Зумби дос Палмарес, един от първите и главните черни водачи в Бразилия през периода на робството. Историята се върти около кървавото бягство на Ганга Зумба от захарната плантация, където работи до Куиломбо дос Палмарес, където възнамерява да намери свобода и да изпълни съдбата си като цар на Банту.
По пътя той е изправен пред насилието на господарите на гората и сеньорите на мелниците, близо до прислужницата Дандара, бъдещата кралица. Участват изпълнителката на самба Картола и актьорът Антонио Питанга, който играе главната роля, също така и "Afoxé Filhos de Gandhy", които възпроизвеждат типичните африкански и афро-бразилски ритуали от колониалния период.
A widowed single mother with a small fortune finds love again with a much younger man who she comes to learn is operating with a hidden agenda.