Solveig is a recent widow with no children. In the early 1980s she sponsored a young orphan, Sibusiso, in the small kingdom of Eswatini in Southern Africa. Solveig now contemplates if she should include Sibusiso in her will. Under the pretence of a holiday trip she travels to meet him.

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulga...

During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boys—w...

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...

Heading on a transatlantic voyage at sea from an Italian lab to America, D'Agostino is the story of ...

When the daughter of the miserly cooper Grandet is up for marriage, both families Des Grassins and C...

A young mute woman is raped and becomes pregnant, with disastrous consequences within her family. Th...

Gerrit Frings is facing ruin at the age of 34. After the end of his company and the suicide of his p...

A gently humorous look at otherness and xenophobia in modern day German with this tale of a black Be...

Ali is the image of modern Africa. He happily returns from a football match on his motorbike but a n...

The story of Quincy Bosomfield who is the product of colonial education and has risen to become the ...

Tourneur, a self-proclaimed cinéaste, feuds with Cinema and his gang, who are obsessed with foreign ...
An African mother will do just about anything to protect her child. Bilaly is a simple peasant who i...

Emilio Fernandez directs Dolores Del Rio and Pedro Armendariz in a classic tale of family and obsess...
Based on a traditional African tale. A king has the habit whilst walking in disguise on the streets ...

A sorcerer (played by the director himself) controls all activities in a village. Manipulating the d...

A dissolute man whose wife cheats on him seeks revenge to preserve his honor.

An African diplomat who has returned to his native country after a long stay in Europe realizes that...

A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As ...