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Films from Africa made by Africans offer restorative images and oftentimes a new film language. The unique 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 as well as about the issues facing the continent.
Articles to help you view and teach African cinema written by African filmmakers and scholars are also available. |
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| All Library of African Cinema Titles |
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DAKAN
(Destiny)
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 87 minutes, Guinea, 1997, in French and Mandikan with English subtitles |
| The first feature film on homosexuality from sub-Saharan Africa. MORE... |
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DARESALAM
(Let There Be Peace)
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 105 minutes, Chad, 2000, in Chadian Arabic and French with English subtitles |
| The first feature film on civil war in modern-day Chad puts a human face on the cycle of violence that engulfs many African countries. MORE... |
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DOLE
(Money)
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 80 minutes, Gabon, 2001, in French with English subtitles |
| A dramatic look at city life, rap, High school, delinquency and dysfunctional families as experienced by African youth and in Gabon. MORE... |
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EVERYONE'S CHILD
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 90 minutes, Zimbabwe, 1996 |
| A feature film examining the plight of Africa's 10,000,000 children orphaned by AIDS. MORE... |
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EZRA
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 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 DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 121 minutes, Senegal, 2001, in French and Wolof with English subtitles |
| In Dakar, Senegal Faat Kine, an independent, single mother and successful business owner looks back over twenty years of triumphs and hardships -including the betrayals by men in her life. A dramatic tribute to the strength and resilience of African women by Ousmane Sembene, the father of African cinema. MORE... |
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FATHERS
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 78 minutes, 3 titles on 1 cassette, Tanzania / Nigeria / Ethiopia, 2000, in Amharic, English and Swahili with English subtitles |
| Three dramatic shorts from Tanzania, Nigeria and Ethiopia take a critical look at the relationship between fathers and their children in contemporary Africa. MORE... |
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FEMMES AUX YEUX OUVERTS
(Women with Open Eyes)
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 52 minutes, Togo, 1994, in French with English subtitles |
| Women in four African countries are shown organizing around issues of marital rights, reproductive health, female genital mutilation and entrepreneurship. MORE... |
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FINTAR O DESTINO
(Dribbling Fate)
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 77 minutes, Portugal / Cape Verde, 1998, in Criolo and Portuguese with English subtitles |
| A feature film about soccer dreams weighs the pros and cons of pursuing ambitions abroad or acceptance of life on the isolated islands of Cape Verde. MORE... |
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FINZAN
(A Dance for the Heroes)
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 107 minutes, Mali, 1990, in Bambara with English subtitles |
| Cheick Oumar Sissoko explores the status of African women in two interlocking stories of traditional village society. MORE... |
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