This film tells the story of the president of a fictitious African nation who spends a sleepless night playing checkers with a pot-smoking vagabond who claims to be the all-round champion. However, the rules of the game entail the opponents howling vulgar and foul obscenities at one another. The champion proceeds to insult, and trounce, the President. His reward, and his fate, will not surprise anyone.

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

Mairy, a thirty-year-old woman from Philippines, works in a village in Cyprus. She takes care of Mr....

A USSR animated short adapted from one of Jomo Kenyatta's fables.

At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat capta...

Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved t...

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

Fast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude....

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

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

This is a continuation of Friends Games. Now the group of friends realises they have fallen into thi...

A short story of two strangers meeting in a train journey, not knowing that something stranger is co...

A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportuni...

William Thatcher, a knight's peasant apprentice, gets a chance at glory when the knight dies suddenl...

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

A film about the difficulty for even the most well-intentioned person to know and respect another cu...

A foundling, raised in the circus, Sam Lion becomes a businessman after a trapeze accident. However,...
Cabascabo, a veteran of the French colonial army in Indochina, returns to his home town in Niger, ac...

Three people looking for a better life become stranded in the desert with little hope of survival.

Whispers, an innocent and adorable baby elephant who's just learning to walk on his own four feet, f...