FilmAfrica

A couple’s perfect love faces the challenge of deeply ingrained tradition in this gem of Cameroonian cinema from director Jean-Pierre Dikongué Pipa.

Join us for an in-depth conversation with pioneering director Jean-Pierre Dikongué-Pipa, whose celebrated 1974 feature film, Muna Moto, brought Cameroonian cinema to global audiences.

A provocative picture of the short but horrific colonial history of Germany in Africa—specifically, its attempts to colonize parts of the continent through religion and trade.

A man loses his job as a civil servant in Dakar in this comedic drama about the economic realities of Senegal.

A young couple in Senegal must contend with disapproval from friends and family in their remote village.

Superbly photographed, stylishly edited, and tastefully scored, this film centers two young femme fatales who set out to rid a futuristic country of its corrupt and sex-obsessed crop of powerful men.

The crown prince of Mabunos, alongside a prophetic soothsayer, sets out to remedy his kingdom’s ills in this enchanting animated tale of ancestral heritage, friendship, tradition, and loyalty.

Filmmaker Cyrielle Raingou centers three children as they navigate the realities of growing up under constant threat from notorious terrorist group Boko Haram.

In an attempt to navigate his father’s increasingly poor memory due to Alzheimer’s disease, a man hires a student to act as a companion and caretaker to his father.

A collection of disparate short films created by Cameroonian directors from 1992 to 2023 offers a kaleidoscopic view of artistic styles and themes, from social unrest to the power of legends and art.

This gorgeously-animated family saga depicts the lives of three generations of Angolan women as a violent 25-year-long civil war simmers in the background.

Released to a sleepy rural village after seven years in prison, a formerly revered English teacher renegotiating the physical world faces his nightmare in the flesh.

After Flora, a girl who lives in a dangerous neighborhood, is drugged and assaulted at a party organized by her boyfriend, his family offers her parents a large sum of money for confidentiality.

Questions of identity, sexuality, privacy, and family are illuminated in a collection of contemporary short films by four directors based in Ghana, France, Egypt, and the US.

A Senegalese schoolgirl’s happy teenage years collide with shocking domestic brutality in a tale of tragedy and transcendence, punctuated with music, in the third part of a trilogy by director Moussa Sène Absa.

At the height of apartheid during the late 60s and early 70s, an international group of students and workers living in London risked all to share Oliver Tambo’s message of hope as undercover agents.

Four decades after the 1969 Pan-African Cultural Festival in Algiers celebrated African cultures while acknowledging struggles for independence, a second festival heralded an African Renaissance.

Reunited with her family after the Congo-Kinshasa war, journalist Aziza is haunted by horrors other women endured, and returns to Eastern Congo to find that the legacy of violence continues.