A sorcerer (played by the director himself) controls all activities in a village. Manipulating the different parties, the sorcerer promises love, good health and riches in exchange for the most extravagant rewards. One day someone exposes him, and the sorcerer becomes the laughing stock of the whole village. Desperate, he throws himself of a cliff.

A wide variety of Iraqis in exile meet at Café Abu Nawas in London, including the architect Amal, th...

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), the mission doctor, theologian and philosopher who founded a hospital...

An epic about anthropologists who hunt and capture pygmies for study back in Europe, in an attempt t...

A cast of unknown performers are used in this drama about child soldiers fighting a war in an unname...

Set during the early part of his reign, Ivan faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closes...

An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sie...

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

Young lion prince Simba, eager to one day become king of the Pride Lands, grows up under the watchfu...

In 1375, China was in chaos between Yuan Dynasty and Ming Dynasty. Coryo (an ancient kingdom of Kore...

Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his fo...

The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, a...

It tells the story of a boy Kumasenu who moves to the city of Accra from a small fishing village, en...

Juju Stories tackles juju in contemporary Lagos through three stories. In Love Potion, by Omonua, an...

On the one hand, there’s the desert eating away at the land. The endless dry season, the lack of wat...

A couple sets up an African game preserve, only to have British and Italian armies fight over the wa...

Two boys with different experiences and goals meet up in a sprawling African market. One is looking ...

In Algeria in 1954, in a village in the Aurès region, poverty reigns over peasants enslaved by colon...

Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the s...

In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the milita...

A Stalinist assassin tracks exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky to Mexico in 1940.