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.

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

At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat capta...

Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.

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

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

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...

A surreal triptych adapted by "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh from his acclaimed collection of s...
The point-of-view of a street dog in relation to the world around her. She runs into adversity and f...

An American couple drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.

Thrown together under incredible circumstances, two strangers must discover courage and strength whe...

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

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

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

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

Seven short films - each one focused on the plight of a different child protagonist.

North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to strug...

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