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Films from Africa made by Africans offer restorative images and a new film language. The beautiful and sometimes challenging films in this collection not only showcase the works of master filmmakers but also innovative new talents who are embracing video technology. To see Africa through African eyes will break stereotypes and enlighten viewers about life in Africa.
Articles to help you view and teach African cinema written by African filmmakers and scholars are also available.
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AFRICA DREAMING
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| DVD, 104 minutes, 4 titles, 26 minutes each on 1 cassette, South Africa / Mozambique / Namibia / Senegal / Tunisia, 1997, in Arabic, French, Nama, Portuguese and Wolof with English subtitles |
| An anthology of four dramatic shorts that explore the theme of love in Africa. MORE... |
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AFRO@DIGITAL
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| DVD and Upgrade to Site /Local Streaming License, 52 minutes, Congo / France, 2003, in English, French, Jula and Yoruba with English subtitles |
| Afro@Digital looks at the impact of various digital technologies across a broad swath of present-day African life and asks how the technology is affecting African culture and how it can best serve the interests of Africa and the global South. MORE... |
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AINSI MEURENT LES ANGES
(And So Angels Die)
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| DVD and Upgrade to Site /Local Streaming License, 56 minutes, Senegal, 2001, in French and Wolof with English subtitles |
| An experimental narrative about a Senegalese poet confronting the crosscultural and psychological pressures of being at home neither in Europe nor in Africa. MORE... |
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EZRA
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| DVD and Upgrade to Site /Local Streaming License, 110 minutes, Nigeria/France/Austria, 2007 |
| Ezra is the first film to give an African perspective on the disturbing phenomenon of abducting child soldiers into the continent’s recent civil wars. Ezra is structured around the week-long questioning of a 16 year old boy, Ezra, before a version of the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, created in Sierra Leone in 2002 in the wake of its decade long civil war. This hearing is then inter-cut with chronological flashbacks to pivotal moments during Ezra’s ten years in the rebel faction which made him who he is. MORE... |
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FAAT KINE
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| DVD and Upgrade to Site /Local Streaming License and and 35mm, 121 minutes, Senegal, 2001, in French and Wolof with English subtitles |
| Ousmane Sembene, the father of African cinema, examines the interplay of gender, economics and power in the fictional life story of businesswoman Faat Kine. MORE... |
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FRANTZ FANON: BLACK SKIN, WHITE MASK
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| DVD and and 35mm, 52 minutes, United Kingdom, 1996, in English and French with English subtitles |
| Dramatization and documentary trace Fanon's intellectual development. Cultural critics position his pioneering studies of the psychological impact of racism on the colonized and colonizer alike. MORE... |
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THE HERO
(O HEROI)
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| DVD and and 35mm, 97 Minutes, Angola, 2005, In Portuguese with English subtitles |
Winner, best foreign feature, the 2005 Sundance Film Festival
The Hero (O Herói) tells the story of Angola, a nation attempting to reconstruct itself after 40 continual years of anti-colonial and civil warfare, through the story of a veteran who has lost his leg, a prostitute who has lost a child and an orphaned boy. MORE... |
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KARMEN GEI
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| DVD and and 35mm, 82 minutes, Senegal, 2001, in French and Wolof with English subtitles |
| A retelling of the celebrated Carmen myth set in contemporary Senegal to African music and dance. MORE... |
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LUMUMBA: LA MORT DU PROPHETE
(Lumumba: Death of a Prophet)
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| DVD, 69 minutes, France / Germany / Switzerland, 1992, in French with English subtitles |
| The life and legacy of Patrice Lumumba, one of the legendary figures of modern Africa's struggle for self-determination, is reconstructed and examined through home movies, photographs, old newsreels and interviews with Belgian journalists and Lumumba's own daughter. MORE... |
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QUAND LES ETOILES RENCONTRENT LA MER
(When the Stars Meet the Sea)
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| DVD, 85 minutes, Madagascar, 1996, in French and Malagasy with English subtitles |
| A poetic exploration of traditional and modern concepts of freedom is set in the landscape of Madagascar. MORE... |
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