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.

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

16 Years of Alcohol is a 2003 drama film written and directed by Richard Jobson, based on his 1987 n...

An ambitious journalist challenges the leader of a violent vigilante group to a high-stakes drinking...

Kaiji (played by Tatsuya Fujiwara) is about to have his life changed. The thrill is beyond anything ...

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...

Rabie is a kid from Sétif in 1980, trying to collect money to buy a wheelchair for his paralyzid sis...

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

Tired of being a small-town waitress, Donna departs with the latest carnival show, living with enter...

Young drug dealer Pablo and his sister Appoline bond over an online game called Darknoon. Pablo fall...

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

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...

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved t...

A year after Sheila is killed in a hit-and-run, her multimillionaire husband invites a group of frie...
Catherine is taken to dine at "Eau de la vie" an opulent cafe known for its unusual entertainment. H...
16-year-old Frida and Mona take the train from the suburbs to Copenhagen on a Friday night to get ri...

An action thriller which lends a multinational depiction of contemporary Africa and centers on a loc...

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