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.

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

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

A USSR animated short adapted from one of Jomo Kenyatta's fables.
It depicts apocalypse concentrating on the last days of a family's catastrophic life in a prevalent ...

A young mute woman is raped and becomes pregnant, with disastrous consequences within her family. Th...
In the prosperous and chic apartment of the Christiansson family there are odd things going on. Whil...

A doctor mysteriously discovers that he is required urgently at the village to offer his services. H...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the milita...
Based on a traditional African tale. A king has the habit whilst walking in disguise on the streets ...

A sorcerer (played by the director himself) controls all activities in a village. Manipulating the d...

A dissolute man whose wife cheats on him seeks revenge to preserve his honor.