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.

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...

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...

A city with its problems. A gang of abandoned children provide for themselves and pose as heroes. Th...

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 ...

Young Africans in Paris face insecurity and vague future. Should they stay in France, or return to t...

John Meadham, in charge of a West Africa trading post, wire the home office in London that he is tir...
A man with arachnophobia buys a poisonous bird spider and sets it free in his apartment.

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...

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

Soon a man will find out that his destiny is already written and that he can't do anything to change...

Marios invites his children to the village to celebrate his fifty-three years. It seems filled but h...
Alone in his kitchen in Bucharest, Dorel prepares for what seems to be a party. Actually, it’s his s...
In the prosperous and chic apartment of the Christiansson family there are odd things going on. Whil...

This excellent feature-length documentary - the story of the imperialist colonization of Africa - is...