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.

Mrs. Anthoula, an elderly lady with hearing problems, is in danger of being evicted out of her flat....

Shabbat Dinner is boring as usual for William Shore. His mother has invited two crazy hippies and th...

It tells the story of a boy Kumasenu who moves to the city of Accra from a small fishing village, en...

A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the surviv...

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

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

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

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

Inspired by the true story of indomitable Kuki Gallmann, the film tells of a beautiful and inquisiti...

After a puritan youth, a young English woman discovers her sensuality in North-Africa.

In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the milita...

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

This film presents a harsh critique of the Koranic teaching through the tragic story of a small tali...

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

Nine strangers wake up in a house with no recollection how they got there and no way out. The voice ...

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

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

A man who has a body almost completely covered in tattoos is searching for the woman who cursed him ...

A year after Sheila is killed in a hit-and-run, her multimillionaire husband invites a group of frie...

An American couple drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.