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.

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

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

A small town comes under the thumb of Martha, a ghost who returns to haunt the children who witnesse...

Kids from Brooklyn, NY housing projects try to change the world when they are paired with Sierra Leo...

The story takes place in Equatorial Guinea, where Mr. Cuchillas leads a mafia gang that takes care o...

Beginning of the 20th century in the east of Sudan. Tajouj is the beautiful cousin of a young tribes...

Two old friends have been betting on the football pool since college. They meet up one weekend where...

Inspired by the true story of indomitable Kuki Gallmann, the film tells of a beautiful and inquisiti...
The chief priest in the village dies and the village is in turmoil. Onyeka is constantly being ridic...

Miguel, a heroic Spanish doctor, puts himself in harm's way to deliver medical treatment to the vict...

An American couple drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.

Improvised over the course of a single night in Paris, this short film follows Fanny and Alexis, who...

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

A film about the difficulty for even the most well-intentioned person to know and respect another cu...

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

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...

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

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...