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- DirectorKareem MortimerStarsJohnny FerroStephen Tyrone WilliamsMargaret Laurena KempThe story of two young Bahamian men who fall in love with each other and portrays the homophobia of the Bahamian society.Bahamas
- DirectorSean RussellStarsSamud AliLevi KingAndrew PilgrimJamal loves to fly kites. One day his "stepfather' does something that changes Jamal. Jamal joins a gang he moves quickly through the ranks-The "General" likes him. Then he meets Angelique, he falls for her. Who she is more far reaching than Jamal would imagine .She gets kidnapped. Jamal wants to save her ,if he tries he'll be going against the "General" -It could mean the end for JamalBarbados
- DirectorPaolo AgazziStarsGuillermo AguirreGuido AlvarezGuillermo BarriosA truck driver and a young shoe cleaner travel through Bolivia for five days.Bolivia
- DirectorMario PeixotoStarsOlga BrenoTatiana ReyRaul SchnoorThree people (Raul Schnoor, Olga Breno and Tatiana Rey) sail aimlessly while remembering their past.Brazil
- DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsJames WoodsDebbie HarrySonja SmitsA programmer at a Toronto TV station that specializes in adult entertainment searches for the producers of a dangerous and bizarre broadcast.Canada
- DirectorMiguel LittinStarsNelson VillagraShenda RománMarcelo RomoThe real story about an illiterate murderer, educated in prison, where he reflects on his actions days before he died.Chile
- DirectorArturo Acevedo VallarinoStarsAlicia Arango de MejíaGonzalo Mejía TrujilloJuan B. NaranjoRomantic drama of manners. Lina, graceful schoolgirl, argues against the will of his father, Don Bernardo, a romance with Alvaro, a young bohemian who squanders his fortune. They decide to escape from parental supervision, but in the train station a beggar hurt Lina warns about the serious error being committed. He bandages the wound with a tissue in which are inscribed his initials and she gratefully gives him her jewels and in turn tells her boyfriend's decision not to pursue this adventure. The beggar is assaulted and murdered. His body appears with the handkerchief Alvaro, who is accused of the crime. Although he is innocent silent to protect Lina and this, above his honor, confesses the truth. Alvaro, and innocent, is gold and ends happily married to Lina.Colombia
- DirectorMiguel LittinStarsDean StockwellAlan EsquivelCarmen BunsterAlsino, a boy of 10 or 12, lives with his grandmother in a remote area of Nicaragua. He's engulfed in the war between rebels and government troops when a US advisor orders the army to open a staging area by the boy's hamlet. Alsino tries to be a child, climbing trees with a girl, looking through his grandfather's trunk of mementos and trying to fly; he goes to town to sell a saddle, has his first drink and is taken to a brothel. But the war surrounds him. The US advisor takes Alsino on a chopper flight, but he's unimpressed. The soldiers' cruelties awake rebel sympathies in Alsino, and after an army assault backfires, the lad is fully baptized into the conflict.Costa Rica
- DirectorMikhail KalatozovStarsSergio CorrieriSalvador WoodJosé GallardoFour vignettes about the lives of the Cuban people set during the pre-revolutionary era.Cuba
- DirectorPierre DeschampsStarsJerry 'Maka West'Juxtaposed to the hustle and bustle of city life on the diminutive Caribbean island of Dominica, Jerry Maka West works his garden in the island's lush interior, his Zion, growing and preparing his food just as his grandparents once taught him. Jerry is Nom Tèw, Man of the Soil.Dominica
- DirectorJorge UllaStarsOrestes MatacenaMarilyn PupoRaimundo Hidalgo-GatoA story about a simple man from the mountains, Guaguasi, who falls in love with a beautiful chorus girl, Marina, during the Cuban Revolution. Guaguasi joins the rebels and arrives in Havana at the end of Batista's dictatorship, and, in the midst of political turmoil, is swept off his feet by the mesmerising Marina. The story celebrates the vitality and lunacy of the Revolution period with surrealism, humor and sensuality and is a compassionate metaphor about the human condition.Dominica Republic
- DirectorJuan Esteban CorderoViviana CorderoStarsJuan Esteban CorderoViviana CorderoA group of musicians move to a ranch in order to capture the sound of the Andes in their first disc.Ecuador
- DirectorAllen H. MinerStarsAnthony DexterMartha RothLon Chaney Jr.Pirates searching for treasure take over a small town in Central America where they believe the loot is buried, but discover that a church has been built over the spot. They force the townspeople to dig for it, but there are more surprises in store for them than they counted on.El Salvador
- DirectorJustin SalerianSouth Africa's paramedics face a surge of violent crime and historic social change 15 years since the end of its oppressive Apartheid era.Grenada
- DirectorLuis ArguetaStarsOscar AlmengorPablo ArenalesHector ArguetaA boy struggles against his stifling family life during the 1954 Guatemala coup.Guatemala
- DirectorRaoul PeckStarsJennifer ZubarToto BissainthePatrick RameauHaiti during papa Doc's reign: not a fun place!Haiti
- DirectorAli AllieStarsFrancisca CrisantoJohana MartinezRosibel ReyesA Garifuna woman returns to Honduras to forget her past and rediscover herself.Honduras
- DirectorTed BafaloukosStarsLeroy 'Horsemouth' WallaceRichard 'Dirty Harry' HallMonica CraigHorsemouth sets himself up in business selling records but when gangsters steal his bike things start to turn nasty. As tensions build, Horsemouth and friends plot to end the gangsters reign of terror and restore justice to the people of Kingston.Jamaica
- DirectorRogelio A. GonzálezStarsMaría RivasGuillermo MurraySara GarcíaMexico
- DirectorMiguel LittinStarsKris KristoffersonJoaquim de AlmeidaDean StockwellThe US tried to occupy Nicaragua in 1927. General Cesar Augusto Sandino and his guerrillas begin armed resistance.Nicaragua
- DirectorAlberto De MartinoStarsStuart WhitmanJohn SaxonMartin LandauIn Canada, a rough Ottawa cop seeks the killer who poisoned his sister.Panama
- DirectorGuillermo VeraStarsRoberto De FeliceRosa RosPedro Ignacio AcevalParaguay
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsKlaus KinskiClaudia CardinaleJosé LewgoyThe story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle.Peru
- DirectorNatalie HallaIn Slovakia babies are born in precarious conditions. In Palestine, a civilian populations life passes in the shadow of a concrete wall eleven meters high. Beyond that wall, family, land, and jobs are left behind. In Western Sahara, in an attempt to create a safe zone, young women risk their lives removing landmines from the 3000 kilometer strip of sand wall that separates them from their land and families. SEPARATED, through the voices of its protagonists, speaks of three peoples struggle to survive. Their common destiny unites them: exclusion and oblivionSaint Kitts and Nevis
- DirectorYashim BahamondeNelson MendozaStarsLucho CáceresManuel GoldAngela GutierrezLuca is a jobless guy forced to earn money fast when is threatened of being kicked out his house.Saint Lucia
- DirectorJavier FerreiroMaría Sosa BetancorStarsJoana VilapuigMarina ComasMireia VilapuigAlicia and Eva are two sisters who suffer from narcolepsy. When dreaming, they both receive instructions to achieve a goal, only known by them. Against the will of their older sister Ana, and after a series of slaughters, the two sisters will be able to cross the line between the real world and the world of the dreams in which they are trapped.Saint Vincent and the grenadines
- DirectorPim de la ParraStarsBorger BreeveldDiana Gangaram PandayWilleke van AmmelrooyRoy is a handsome Surinam man, who studies in Amsterdam. He hurriedly left his Dutch girlfriend Karina to visit his dying mom in Paramaribo. Back in his homeland, Roy soon becomes obsessed with his own country and it's culture. When he falls for the Hindu nurse Rubia, the conservative Hindu and Black communities are in revolt. One day Karina arrives in Surinam too.Suriname
- DirectorHarbance KumarStarsSanam SuriBhalinderMichael WalkerA father (Ralph Maraj) who has settled in Trinidad has just come back from India with Rina (Sanam Suri), a bride for his son Sham (Bhalinder). The only problem is, Sham is so hopelessly shy and/or repressed by his cultural background that he cannot bring himself to engage in any intimacy, of any kind, with his new bride. Being Indian, he is well aware that his bride may desire to have a relationship with a man and so he gives her free rein to enter into any sort of liaison she wants. Rina does fall in love with an artist (Kabir Bedi) and has a baby by him, but her father-in-law is outraged at her behavior and kills the artist. Rina herself is later put on trial for the death of another man, even though she is innocent and has actually framed by her father-in-law. As the story moves along, there are musical numbers worked into the scenes (one of the friends is a performer) that are lively and entertaining in themselves.Trinidad and Tobago
- DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsMarlon BrandoAl PacinoJames CaanThe aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.United States
- DirectorAdolfo AristarainStarsJosé SacristánFederico LuppiLeonor BenedettoMario and Ana, in voluntary exile from Buenos Aires, live in a remote Argentine valley with their 12-year-old son Ernesto. Mario runs a school and a wool cooperative; Ana, a doctor, heads a clinic with Nelda, a progressive nun. Into this idealistic family comes Hans, a jaded Spanish geological engineer -- surveying the land for the local patron, to see if it can be dammed for hydro-electric power, which would drive the peasants from the land into the cities.Uruguay
- DirectorPiero VivarelliStarsNadia CassiniBeryl CunninghamSergio TramontiA beautiful Italian woman, Paola (Nadia Cassini) is told by her black friend (Evaristo Márquez) about the Caribbean love god Jambaya who appears in the form of the snake. By the end of the movie, Paola decides to give herself to Jambaya while a local woman named Stella (Beryl Cunningham) departs with her white friend's ex-lover, establishing a neat symmetry between their respective fantasies of exoticism.Venezuela
- DirectorMichael RaeburnStarsDominic MakuwachumaSibongile NeneFarai SevenzoA young African man must try every trick in the book in this attempts to win the heart of the most beautiful girl in his village.Zimbabwe
- DirectorMichael RaeburnStarsKaren BlackJohn ThawJohn KaniIn the 1940s, a city girl moves from America to her husband's failing farm in Southern Rhodesia in colonial Africa. Unhappy and unhinged, she starts an affair with their black servant which leads to tragedy.Zambia
- DirectorApichatpong WeerasethakulStarsThanapat SaisaymarJenjira PongpasSakda KaewbuadeeDying of kidney disease, a man spends his last, somber days with family, including the ghost of his wife and a forest spirit who used to be his son, on a rural northern Thailand farm.Thailand
- DirectorJan van den BergStarsPipaluk Knudsen-OstermannThe Arctic plains are an eminent example of nature's untouched beauty, an endless nothing in which only few know how to survive. But dangerous pesticides are silently accumulating here, poisoning it's inhabitants. A young Inuit woman investigates the sources of this pollution. Her journey takes her to three different continents, where she is confronted with conflicting interests when it comes to short term gains and health care. The recent developments in the Arctic are a disturbing preview of the consequences of structural pollution of the environmental system worldwide.Uganda
- DirectorFérid BoughedirStarsSelim BoughedirMustapha AdouaniRabiah Ben-AbdullahNoura struggles to reconcile two worlds, Muslim women and men, while also dealing with his own sexuality.Tunisia
- DirectorAnne-Laure FollyStarsDjelika DialloAlimata KonatePortraits of contemporary African women from four West African nations: Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal and Benin.Togo
- DirectorHugo Van LawickStarsFabenFifiFlintTanzania
- Swaziland
- DirectorDavin Anders HutchinsStarsMr. CoolThe CowboyDavin Anders HutchinsThe Art Of Flight is a guerrilla documentary that was shot illegally in Egypt on camcorders and a laptop. This feature-length film tells the story of three people - a refugee from southern Sudan, a human rights activist from northern Sudan and an American journalist in self-imposed exile - all living in Cairo. For very different reasons, the trio has found themselves struggling to survive in Egypt - a U.S.-financed dictatorship which has reluctantly become their home. Davin, a dot-com casualty, left America for the Middle East after September 11th made him realize he had been "asleep." In Egypt, he begins life as a freelance travel writer. Later, he is drawn in to the plight of Sudanese refugees in Cairo - many from Darfur. He is compelled to write a story of substance after witnessing their abuse around Cairo. During his investigation, he risks arrest by Egyptian authorities, confronts apathetic American news editors and presses UNHCR to explain its arbitrary asylum procedures to get their story told. He soon begins to question his own objectivity, debating whether he should report on one refugee family or simply help them. The head of this refugee family, Jere Maluk, fled his war-ravaged home in Juba, Sudan, to seek refugee protection from UNHCR in Cairo in order to travel to America. He and his family, like the tens of thousands of Sudanese refugees in Egypt, seek out asylum but instead end up living in one. They learn to cope with racism, gang violence, poverty and torture as second-class residents as they navigate through a maze of bureaucratic mismanagement at UNHCR for the slim chance of getting resettled. Magda, a middle-aged human rights activist, has elected not to apply for refugee status because she is convinced she will one day return to a peaceful Sudan. Her days are spent trying to empower refugees - teaching them self-reliance in order to create citizens for a democratic Sudan. The film explores a common sense of homelessness shared by three seemingly different people as they cross paths for a fleeting moment in time - each on their way to a destination another has fled. Davin wrestles his sense of American idealism as he witnesses first-hand the charade of democracy-building taking place at the edge of the American empire. The Art Of Flight features artwork of Sudanese painters living in exile. In addition to paintings from Sudanese artists and torture victims, the film also features an original soundtrack by Al-Khafiyeen, a musical ensemble of refugees who played together for a single night to score the film. The film delves deep into questions about the nature of charity, the consequences of American empire and the price of transience.Sudan
- DirectorLionel RogosinStarsZacharia MgabiVinah BendileMiriam MakebaCome Back, Africa chronicles the life of Zachariah, a black South African living under the rule of the harsh apartheid government in 1959.South Africa
- DirectorAbdulkadir Ahmed SaidStarsFaadumo Maxamed CabdiXuseen Mayow MaameMaxamud Xasan MuqtaarIn a small town, a nomad cuts down a tree he needs to use. However, he accidentally chops down the wrong tree, felling the tree that sustains life itself. When the latter tree falls, all life disappears. The nomad then finds himself in the middle of a desert that he does not recognize, and he tries to work his way out of it. During this particular quest, he comes across a small tree that is in the process of dying and opts instead to save this one.Somalia
- DirectorAngel SerranoAlvaro ToepkeStarsVertamae GrosvenorTHE LANGUAGE YOU CRY IN tells an amazing scholarly detective story that searches for, and finds meaningful links between African Americans and their ancestral past. It bridges hundreds of years and thousands of miles from the Gullah people of present-day Georgia back to 18th century Sierra Leone. It recounts the even more remarkable saga of how African Americans have retained links with their African past through the horrors of the middle passage, slavery and segregation. The film dramatically demonstrates the contribution of contemporary scholarship to restoring what narrator Vertamae Grosvenor calls the "non-history" imposed on African Americans: "This is a story of memory, how the memory of a family was pieced together through a song with legendary powers to connect those who sang it with their roots."Sierra leone
- StarsLinor AbargilJessica AlmenäsDaniella CamposSeychelles
- DirectorOusmane SembeneStarsMbissine Thérèse DiopAnne-Marie JelinekRobert FontaineA black girl from Senegal becomes a servant in France.Senegal
- DirectorNick HughesStarsEric Bridges TwahirwaCleophas KabasitaDavis KagenzaA local Hutu official is persuaded to implement the government's policy against the Tutsi: To completely wipe them out. Josette, a beautiful young Tutsi girl struggles to survive the killing by taking refuge in a church, supposedly protected by the UNO forces. Meanwhile, Josette's brother is hunted down and murdered and her boyfriend rescued by the rebels. But the Hutu Catholic priest betrays Josette's family and only agrees to spare her life is to submit to the nightly violations. By the time she is reunited with her boyfriend, neither of them can face the brutal reality of their situation: she is pregnant and bears the priest's child, which she immediately abandons. 100 Days was shot in Kibuye, the beautiful landscape had been the back drop to some of the worst atrocities in 1994. In Kibuye Church, the site of an actual massacre, Rwanda actors played killers and victims that were only too familiar to them.Rwanda
- DirectorOssie DavisStarsRuby DeeOssie DavisGreg MorrisStory of the transition of an African country from colonialism to independence.Nigeria
- DirectorJean RouchStarsDamouré ZikaLam Ibrahim DiaTallou MouzouraneThe story follows three poultry sellers on a trip across the bush, attempting to deliver a load of chickens to a market in Niamey. When a third person joins the group, the organization of the trip begins to look even more precarious.Niger
- DirectorSolveig NordlundStarsSérgio TitosJaime JulioFrancisco ChilengueBased on the book by Henning Mankell (Sweden), this story takes place in Mozambique and is about a young boy, Nelio, who loses his entire family during a time of civil war. A wounded Nelio is found by a baker in the capital Mapouto; refusing medical treatment, the boy instead asks for sanctuary so he can tell his terrible tale. This he proceeds to do, starting with how the fighters arrived in his village and slaughtered many, to his captivity, his escape and his teaming with other orphaned street urchins to become their leader in survival.Mozambique
- DirectorMoumen SmihiStarsLeila ShennaAbdelkader MoutaaChawki SaïlIn the mid-1950s, Tangier was still an international concession. But the time of independence and reunification of the country is approaching. On the advice of her entourage, Aïcha uses magical practices to prevent her husband from taking a second, younger wife. The clandestine resistance of women, her family and her allied neighbors has crystallized around her. Aïcha tears off her veil as a sign of revolt. During a final ritual by the ocean, she drowns. This film deals with the situation of women, the relationship to magic, but also with childhood, the relationship with the father and the austerity of education.Morocco
- DirectorBarlen PyamootooStarsJérôme BoulleDanielle DalbertSandra FaroTwo young men went on a ride with their old friend in his truck across the whole Mauritius, the sole purpose of it being finding and getting two girls to entertain them that very night back home.Mauritius
- DirectorMed HondoStarsCyril AventurinFernand BersetRoland BertinThis vast musical fresco covers hundreds of years of history from enslavement to 20th-century immigration. Set on an enormous slave ship and boasts a dazzling array of brilliant choreography, wide-ranging musical styles and sharp satire.Mauritania
- DirectorSouleymane CisséStarsIssiaka KaneAoua SangareNiamanto SanogoA young man with magical powers journeys to his uncle to request help in fighting his sorcerer father.Mali
- DirectorRaymond RajaonariveloStarsPhilippe NahounFrançois BotozandryLucien DadakisyTabataba tells the story of a small Malagasy village during the independence uprising which took place in 1947 in the south of the country. For several months, part of the Malagasy population revolted against the French colonial army in a bloody struggle. The repression in villages that followed was terrible, leading to fires, arrests and torture. Women, children and the elderly were the indirect victims of the conflict and suffered particularly from famine and illness. One leader of the MDRM Malagasy Party, which campaigns for the independence of the country, arrives in a village. Solo (François Botozandry), the main character, is still too young to fight but he sees his brother and most of the men in his clan join up. His grandmother, Bakanga (Soavelo), knows what will happen, but Solo still hopes his elder brother will return a hero. After months of rumors, he sees instead the French army arrive to crush the rebellion.Madagascar
- DirectorMoustapha AkkadStarsAbdallah GheithMona WassefHamdy GheithThe story of prophet "Muhammad" and the delivery of the message of God "Allah."Libya
- DirectorJean-Stéphane SauvaireStarsChristophe MinieDaisy Victoria VandyJoseph DuoA cast of unknown performers are used in this drama about child soldiers fighting a war in the West African Country Liberia.Liberia
- DirectorAbid ViraniJake ChiricoIntroducing a generation of young Africans determined to be the first free of AIDS.Lesotho
- DirectorCarl SchultzStarsRichard HarrisJohn MichieKerry FoxGeorge Adamson fights to save Kenya's wildlife. Together with his young assistant Tony Fitzjohn, he battles to keep the animals on his game reserve, and "Kora", from dangerous poachers.Kenya
- DirectorFlora GomesStarsBia GomesTunu Eugenio AlmadaMamadu Uri BaldeThe story of a woman who searches through the country for her husband, a resistant, while the war for independence is raging. She finds him at last and saves his life. When peace finally arrives, they have to learn how to be together again and start living in a destroyed land.Guinea Bissau
- DirectorCheik DoukouréStarsAboubacar Sidiki SumahAgnès SoralHabib HammoudThe story of Salif Keïta, first "Ballon d'or d'Afrique" (African Golden Ball).Guinea
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsKlaus KinskiKing AmpawJosé LewgoyDuring the 1800s, paroled Brazilian bandit Cobra Verde is sent to West Africa with a few troops to man an old Portuguese fort and to convince the local African ruler to resume the slave trade with Brazil.Ghana
- DirectorRichard NichollsStarsAlexis DubusSy ThomasDesperate to dispel the ridicule of their peers, two life-long friends attempt to travel 4000 miles across seven countries and the Sahara desert in a car bought for 100 pounds.Gambia
- DirectorSerge GainsbourgStarsFrancis HusterBarbara SukowaReinhard KolldehoffNovel-based crime drama about naive Timar, who goes to Gabon, French Equatorial Africa in the 1950s with dreams of making fortune. He's seduced by Adele, a shady owner of a local hotel, Libreville, who uses him to commit murder.Gabon
- DirectorDavey FrankelRasselas LakewStarsRasselas LakewDag MalmbergRuta GedmintasRunning the streets of Rome in 1960, an unknown, barefooted Ethiopian man stunned the world by winning Olympic gold in the marathon. Overnight, Abebe Bikila became a sports legend. A hero in his own country and to the continent, Bikila was the first African to win a gold medal, and four years later in Tokyo would become the first person in history to win consecutive Olympic gold medals in the marathon. This soldier and quiet son of a shepherd would be acknowledged by many as the greatest long distance runner the world had ever known. One evening while returning to his home in Addis Ababa from training in the Ethiopian countryside, Bikila was involved in a tragic car accident which left him paralyzed from the waist down. Unable to walk and faced with the greatest challenge of his life, he struggled to maintain his will to live and in the process discovered a deeper meaning of competition, taking up archery for the Paralympics and competing as a handicapped dog sledder in Norway. Though his running career had come to a tragic end, the race of his life had a new beginning. For the first time, the true story of Bikila's epic quest for life and sport comes to the big screen. Not since Raging Bull has the life of an athlete been rendered with such emotional power and cinematic grace.Ethiopia
- DirectorAmbessa Jir BerheStarsAmbessa Jir BerheFilmon MebrahtomSenait MeketaA young man learns a valuable lesson when he succumbs to peer pressure and attempts to smoke his first and last cigarette.Eritrea
- DirectorJames W. NewtonTom AllenStarsTom AllenAndrew WelchIt was the start of a brand new life, but Tom Allen's dream journey takes an unlikely detour when he falls in love with an Iranian-Armenian girl.Djibouti
- DirectorJean-Jacques AnnaudStarsJean CarmetJacques DufilhoCatherine RouvelDuring World War I, French colonists lost in African desert decide to attack their German neighbors.Cote d'Ivoire
- DirectorZeka LaplaineStarsAmbre LaplaineAnna Maria LaplaineBeto LaplaineThe filmmaker searches for his brother Max, who left his children without explanation. The brothers grew up in the Congo with their white father and Congolese mother. He visits their mother, who still lives in Kinshasa, and their father in Lisbon, as well as the extended family in France and Belgium. His search even takes him to Cambodia where Max was spotted. This fiction film is based on, and uses, the filmmaker's own family.Democratic Republic of the congo
- DirectorHachimiya AhamadaStarsMama HayiriyaFahamwe IbouroAbidine Said MohamedA Comorian village. Djibril spends his free time taking care of an abandoned villa. While living there, his small straw hut is ravaged by a fire. Homeless, he now must find a place to live.Comoros
- DirectorMahamat-Saleh HarounStarsYoussouf DjaoroDiouc KomaEmile Abossolo M'boPresent-day Chad. Adam, fifty-five, a former swimming champion, is pool attendant at a smart N'Djamena hotel. When the hotel gets taken over by new Chinese owners, he is forced to give up his job to his son Abdel. Terribly resentful, he feels socially humiliated. The country is in the throes of a civil war. Rebel forces are attacking the government. The authorities demand that the population contribute to the "war effort", giving money or volunteers old enough to fight off the assailants. The District Chief constantly harasses Adam for his contribution. But Adam is penniless; he only has his son....Chad
- DirectorBassek Ba KobhioDidier OuenangareStarsEriq EbouaneyNadège Beausson-DiagneSonia ZembourouA film about the difficulty for even the most well-intentioned person to know and respect another culture. In this case, the problem is so acute that there is even heated debate over what to call that 'other.' The subtitles in the film use the familiar word 'pygmies,' a relatively pejorative European term; the Bantu or villagers' expression for the same group, Babingas, carries similar negative connotations. These highly specialized, tropical rain forest hunter-gatherers should perhaps be called by their own ethnonym, Aka, MoAka (sing.) and BaAka (pl.)Central African Republic
- DirectorFrancisco MansoStarsNelson XavierMaria CeiçaChico DíazNopumoceno, the most successful businessman in the Cabo Verde archipelogo, is an ambitious, clever opportunist, known during his lifetime as "eternity single". However, he is then discovered by his illegitimate daughter to have gotten his fortune and his women in unorthodox and incredible ways ...Cape Verde
- DirectorJean-Pierre Dikongue-PipaStarsPhilippe AbiaArlette Din BeliGisèle Dikongue-PipaNgando and Ndomé; are in love. Ngando wishes to marry Ndomé; but her family reminds him that the traditional dowry must be settled. Unfortunately, Ngando is poor and unable to fulfill the tradition. Ndomé; is pregnant and bears his child. According to the village tradition, she must take a husband, at least one who can afford to pay the dowry. The villagers decide that Ndomé; should marry Ngando's uncle, who has already three sterile wives. In despair, the young man kidnaps his daughter upon the day of the traditional feast. An African Romeo and Juliet story.Cameroon.
- DirectorLéonce NgaboStarsJoseph KumbelaMarie BunelAoua SangareGito is a young African intellectual returning home from France with numerous academic degrees and ministerial ambitions. Gradually his ambitions are crushed by the daily realities of his country. Gito is tested further by the alliance between his French girlfriend and his old sweetheart who join forces to teach Gito an unforgettable lesson.Burundi
- DirectorIdrissa OuedraogoStarsFatimata SangaNoufou OuédraogoRoukietou BarryA small village in Burkina Faso. The story focuses on Bila, a ten year old boy who befriends an old woman, Sana. Everybody calls her 'Witch' but Bila himself calls her 'Yaaba' (grandmother). When Bila's cousin Nopoko gets sick it is Sana's medicine who saves her.Burkina Faso
- DirectorJamie UysStarsN!xauMarius WeyersSandra PrinslooA comic allegory about a traveling Bushman who encounters modern civilization and its stranger aspects, including a clumsy scientist and a band of revolutionaries.Botswana
- DirectorDominique LoreauStarsAlphonse AtacolodjouSimonet BiokouFidèle GbegnonBenin
- DirectorSarah MaldororStarsElisa AndradeDomingos de OliveiraJean M'VondoA man is wrongfully arrested and tortured to death after he is suspected of being part of a revolutionary group.Angola
- DirectorGillo PontecorvoStarsBrahim HadjadjJean MartinYacef SaadiIn the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.Algeria
- DirectorKhalid Abdulrahim Al-ZadjaliStarsSaleh Za'alZoha QaderSaud Al-DarmakiThe film takes place in a coastal town where the locals are known for fishing and boat building. As it turns out, work in these two professions has started to decrease. Most young local men have deserted the town and started heading to the capital to look to for work They claim that the sea's fortune has run short and that a container of fish is not enough to fulfill their dreams and ambitions. Sheik Ibrahim, one of the wise and rich men of the town, was a vital catalyst in the migration of the work force. For it is in the sake of his big investments, that everyone talks of but no one seems to know what they are and who are his Omani and foreign partners. He offers people to buy off their old fishing boats, even their old homes which are close to the coast. No one stands in his way but a elder man in his fifties Nokhithah(Captain) Salem "Abu Zahir", who has long relationship with the sea since his childhood. It is said that his son Zahir has gone off to sea on a fishing trip and has not returned This is why he waiting for him while raising, Noor, a girl he has betrothed for Zahir. Abu Zahir insists on fixing old fishing boats. Sheik Ibrahim finds the Nokhithah as an obstacle in his way to achieve his investments. So he starts fighting him by any means, one of which was spreading false rumors about an illegitimate relationship with his son's fiancée Noor; Sheik Ibrahim even raises doubts about the existence of Zahir that everyone heard of but never seen on first hand.Oman
- DirectorFarid Azlan GhaniHarlif Hj MohamadStarsSyukri MahariTauffek IlyasDayangku Moniri Pengiran MohiddinA story about a 30 year old man named Hakim and Rina.Brunei
- DirectorJuan Pablo Ebang EsonoStarsOlga AlamánSabina AvomoSonia Mbegono NcogoNot Naked explores cultural differences and their power to draw people together. This short celebrates the diversity of the rich global cultural canvas.Equatorial Guinea
- DirectorSteve FisherStarsKara BlackmoreTyler BradtSteve FisherCONGO: The Grand Inga Project chronicles kayak icon Steve Fisher as he and a team of the bravest and most talented paddlers on earth tackle a first descent of the Inga Rapids, a deadly stretch of whitewater in the heart of the Democratic Republic of Congo.Republic of the Congo
- DirectorJoseph ZitoStarsDolph LundgrenM. Emmet WalshAl WhiteA Spetsnaz commando is sent on a covert mission by his Soviet superiors to infiltrate a rebel army and assassinate its leader.Nambia
- DirectorWayne TindallCharles MelukStarsEdy May Chailor-PeskadorNivio Meleve Guerra de OliveraRomendio HornayA poor Timorese boy is teased and ridiculed at his local school in remote Los Palos. In desperation he runs away to catch up with his only friend; a fisherman. While fishing he is he is confronted by a huge crocodile who demands fish in exchange for something more precious than food! After parting with the fish, the crocodile gives him three secret and wise sayings. He runs back to school, and twenty years later the boy has grown up to be a highly successful political leader. When asked what the secret of his success has been, he delivers the three wise saying with great oratory skills. As he concludes his voice turns into the crocodiles voice of long ago.Timor-Leste
- DirectorAleksandr SokurovStarsSergey DreydenMariya KuznetsovaLeonid MozgovoyA 19th century French aristocrat, notorious for his scathing memoirs about life in Russia, travels through the Russian State Hermitage Museum and encounters historical figures from the last 200+ years.Russia
- DirectorKartal TibetStarsKemal SunalYavuz SimsekSuna YildizogluSaid funny events that have to be engaged to endear himself to the beloved players.Turkey
- DirectorSergei DvortsevoyStarsAskhat KuchinchirekovTolepbergen BaisakalovSamal YeslyamovaOn the steppes of Kazakhstan, Asa lives in a yurt with his sister Samal, her husband Ondas, and their three children. Ondas is a herdsman, tough and strong. It's dry, dusty, and windy; too many lambs are stillborn. Against this backdrop, Asa, a dreamer who's slight of build and recently finished with a stint in the Russian Navy, tries to establish a life on the steppes. He, his friend Boni, and Ondas call on Tulpan, the only single girl in the area. The men talk to her parents while she listens out of sight. Her answer and Asa's later trips to talk to her form an arc of hope against the harsh land. Is this the place of Asa's dreams? What about the other lambs?Kazakhstan
- DirectorTornike BziavaStarsMalkhaz JorbenadzeMirian GaruchavaRezo ChanishviliThe story of a Soviet military serviceman and a male Georgian dancer. An anti-violence film about the awakening of human instinct in an invader.Georgia
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsMahmoud Al MelejiNagwa IbrahimEzzat El AlailiA small peasant village's struggles against the careless inroads of the large local landowner. The Land shows why political oppression does not necessarily lead to a sense of solidarity among the disinherited.Egypt
- DirectorIlgar NajafStarsRafig GuliyevTofig AliyevElnur Karimov"Buta" is the story of a lonely 7-year old boy (named Buta), who lives in a mountain village with his grandmother. He is befriended by an old man, a liquid soap merchant who once loved (and lost) Buta's grandmother. The old man's friendship and wise advice helps Buta to overcome his difficulties in life. Buta's grandmother, in the meantime, is weaving a special carpet in memory of Buta's mother. The carpet features a special pattern (also called "Buta"), which represents love. The boy is inspired by his grandmother's work, and decides to make his own "buta" made of rocks and stones, high on the top of the mountain...Azerbaijan
- DirectorMikhail VartanovSergei ParajanovStarsSergei ParajanovMikhail VartanovSofiko ChiaureliFilmed in wartime and edited under candlelight, Mikhail Vartanov's rarely-seen masterwork tells of his friendship with the genius Sergei Parajanov who was arrested by KGB, at the height of his fame, for the outspoken criticism of the Soviet regime. Vartanov resurrects the riveting scenes from his banned 1969 film, The Color of Armenian Land, where Paradjanov concocts the chef-d'oeuvre Sayat Nova (The Color of Pomegranates) - widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time - then reveals a shocking secret request Parajanov sent him in an unpublished 1974 letter from the Ukrainian prisons. Vartanov's camera documents Parajanov's staggering last day at work in 1990 during the making of the unfinished Confession - the original camera negative of which survives in Parajanov: The Last Spring (1992) - as Parajanov comments on this cherished autobiographical film. The foremost achievement of The Last Spring, emphasized by the American and European critics, is Vartanov's exquisite wordless montage that "evoked the very soul" of Parajanov and earned the praise of many of cinema's greatest masters, such as Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola.Armenia
- DirectorBillie LiaoStarsEvan M. FloryBillie LiaoA duty-bound rooster fights ancient stone monsters to defend his witless hens.Tuvalu
- DirectorPaul JanmanStarsFuta Helu'Atolomake HeluSisi'uno HeluAncient philosophy, opera and Tongan culture come together in this intimate portrait of a teacher, his school and his people as they navigate a sea of repression and doubt in a small but troubled Pacific island kingdom.Tonga
- DirectorTusi TamaseseStarsFa'afiaula SanoteTausili PushparajSalamasina MataiaSaili, a little person and taro farmer, has his life turned upside-down when he is denied his father's chiefly status and his family plantation is threatened.Samoa
- DirectorPengau NengoStarsSuzi BuriGerard GabudLeo Konga"Papa", one of the chiefs of a tribe in the highlands, is taxi driver of a "Tinpis", a collective bush-taxi. Saved from an accident by Naaki, a young man from the city, he offers him his daughter in thanks. Johanna and Naaki, however, refuse that their happiness be decided by her father, even though they have already fallen in love.Papua new guinea
- DirectorLuke CresswellSteve McNicholasFrom the Academy-Award nominated creators of the Broadway show STOMP and the award-winning film Wild Ocean, The Last Reef is an uplifting, inspirational large-format and 3D cinema experience capturing one of nature's more vibrant and diverse wonderlands. Exotic coral reefs, vibrant sea walls in the sub-arctic pulsating with anemones and crustaceans: these biodiversity hot spots are as vital to our lives as the rainforests. Shot on location in Palau, Vancouver Island, French Polynesia, Mexico, and The Bahamas using groundbreaking 3D cinematography, The Last Reef takes us on a global journey to explore the connection of our cities on land with the ocean's complex, parallel world of the coral reefs beneath the sea.Palau
- DirectorVincent WardStarsPenelope StewartFrank WhittenBill KerrA lonely girl living on an isolated, mist-cloaked farm is confronted with the changes wrought by a stranger that arrives.New zealand