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

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

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

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

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

A light hearted comedy about the beginnings of Professional American Football. When a decorated war ...

A haunting short version of Edgar Allan Poe's famous story about a cruel and unusual punishment infl...

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

Back home in Bujumbura with a Parisian diploma in his pocket and expecting to walk into a civil serv...

A couple sets up an African game preserve, only to have British and Italian armies fight over the wa...

Harassed by bullies because of his mild autism, teen Ben finds refuge in an online computer game, wh...

Juju Stories tackles juju in contemporary Lagos through three stories. In Love Potion, by Omonua, an...

Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers are worlds apart. At a ...

Seasoned adventurer and treasure hunter Dirk Pitt, a former Navy SEAL, sets out for the African dese...

A driven candidate moments before the most important point of his career. A desperate thug moments b...

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

This film follows the fortunes of an old Peugeot off loaded in Cotonou, Benin. As it changes hands w...
Hedi, a young man in his thirties, moves into an old apartment where he's going to make an amazing a...

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