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.

This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conq...

Ahmed’s father has only a day with his wife and son before he must return to war. With haunting, inn...

Based on the experiences of Agu, a child fighting in the civil war of a West African country. Follow...

For many years, Urs has had to look after his aging mother. But now he sets out for a dangerous jour...

Renowned filmmaker John Wilson travels to Africa to direct a new movie, but constantly leaves to hun...

August Bolte, the richest man in a settlement in German East Africa in the period before World War I...

In Africa in the fifties, during the Mau-Mau war, young Patricia's friendship with a lion she raised...

Five unrelated tales: (1) "The Ravishing Queen" / "La Reina Bella", in which the queen choses a king...

A magician seeks vengeance upon the man who paralyzed him and the illegitimate daughter he sired wit...

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 night in the life of two blacklight gossip queens in the year 2999.

David Locke is a world-weary American journalist who has been sent to cover a conflict in northern A...

A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States — ...

The circle of life continues for Simba, now fully grown and in his rightful place as the king of Pri...

Kids from Brooklyn, NY housing projects try to change the world when they are paired with Sierra Leo...

Miguel, a heroic Spanish doctor, puts himself in harm's way to deliver medical treatment to the vict...

Two old friends have been betting on the football pool since college. They meet up one weekend where...

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

Ray Pluto has many problems. He is satirized in the tabloids as the "loser cop." His partner is star...