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.

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

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

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...

Life in the African country of Mali in the 1990s is vividly highlighted in this mild drama. In the s...

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

At a festival, a chorus of women sing and dance as two stories unfold. In a village, a young women w...

A surreal triptych adapted by "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh from his acclaimed collection of s...

A fearsome 19th century bandit, Cobra Verde cuts a swath through Brazil until he arrives at the suga...

Inspector Rizzo in Napoli gets a message from a policeman from South Africa who wants to meet him. I...

An ambitious journalist challenges the leader of a violent vigilante group to a high-stakes drinking...

The tumultuous life of Arthur Rimbaud, the cursed poet, who completed his masterwork at the age of t...

PK, an English orphan terrorized for his family's political beliefs in Africa, turns to his only fri...

Two adventurers and best friends, Roland and Manu, are the victims of a practical joke that costs Ma...

Irish seaman Vic Brennan persuades his Dublin family to finance a truck-hauling business in the remo...

Kaiji (played by Tatsuya Fujiwara) is about to have his life changed. The thrill is beyond anything ...

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

Gugu is being thrown out by her husband Themba, who is apparently having an affair with an ex-girlfr...

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