African Metropolis
The vitality of the African city has provided local filmmakers with a rich array of stories for their films. African Metropolis presents six short films that examine the complexity of urban life in Abidjan, Cairo, Dakar,
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The vitality of the African city has provided local filmmakers with a rich array of stories for their films. African Metropolis presents six short films that examine the complexity of urban life in Abidjan, Cairo, Dakar,
Kirby, Davis and Drover escort the wanted criminal Rene Carvel from central Africa to the coast, stopping every so often to watch wild animals attack one another.
At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed missionary to go down river and face-off a German warship.
African Cats captures the real-life love, humor and determination of the majestic kings of the savanna. The story features Mara, an endearing lion cub who strives to grow up with her mother’s strength, spirit and wisdom;
A South African student attends a Norwegian university back in the days when this was unusual. Norwegian TV-drama starring Earle Hyman (grandpa from Cosby Show) as something as rare as an African in Oslo (1960's).
Over a weekend visit in Los Angeles, two-first generation Sierra Leonean American brothers navigate the changing dynamics of brotherhood after a surprise announcement.
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
1975. When Seyolo Zantoko, a doctor from the Congo who has managed, along with his family, to flee tyranny, is hired by the mayor of a small town in northern France, he begins a struggle to adapt to a new life and gain t
The film deals with the air route pioneered by Imperial Airways from Cairo to Cape Town. The flying is incidental to the film, which shows life at several of the towns which are ports of call on the route.
Osa Johnson, "The First Lady of Exploration", stars in this rare documentary -- lost for over 50 years!! After the success of her 1940 book, I Married Adventure, Osa Johnson was contracted to write three follow-up novel
Mainstar, Luke Novak (A local Hockey Player living the life in Canada) goes on a trip to Africa to visit his dad who recently had a job change to a African Mining Buisness. This two part film shows from the point of view
A singer is on the run from the law and a criminal gang. She takes refuge at a hotel where she finally reveals a complex story of betrayal and revenge to the investigating detective.
A young woman decides to organize an intercontinental festival of African songs in Cameroon.
A 22-month anthropological expedition to the African continent with the 'Gauchos del Mar' brothers traveling in a 1985-model military ambulance from Spain to South Africa. The objective is to encourage human relationship
A disgruntled South African woman leaves her fiancé and embezzles money from her job to pursue her dream of being a Broadway star in New York City.
African Diary uses footage from a filmed personal diary shot in Algeria by an anonymous Frenchman between 1927-1936. Here, they reprise his cinematic jottings as he followed in the footsteps of the 19th century Orientali
A Giraffe mother tells the story of three young gazelle fawns who have to experience great adventures on the plains of Africa.
Émile Boulard is a props man in a Paris movie studio. He has a wife, Suzanne. Or to be more accurate, let's say he HAD a wife since she left him fifteen years before, allegedly ... to go buy a post stamp. But now that th
Years after the Second Punic War, Scipio Africanus finds himself generally unliked, despite his defeat of Hannibal Barca. He and his brother, Scipio Asiaticus, are accused by Marcus Porcius Cato of the theft of 500 talen