Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), the mission doctor, theologian and philosopher who founded a hospital in the rainforests of Gabon, achieved sainthood in his lifetime, at least in the popular imagination. The critical assessment of his life and works in recent years, however, has been slightly more ambivalent. Ba Kobhio Bassek is the first director to examine this medical missionary from a purely African point-of-view.

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...

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

Children of War is a movie based on the true events of the 1971 Genocide. Can we, in search of power...

An adaptation of Yinka Egbokhare's novel. The story of a young sickle-cell patient and the various s...

The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, a...

A young Pakistani Briton manages a rundown laundrette with his lover while dealing with tension in h...

The tumultuous life of Arthur Rimbaud, the cursed poet, who completed his masterwork at the age of t...

This film speaks of archaic peoples, their customs and mores, in an attempt to make the last snapsho...

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

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

Donya, a lonely Afghan refugee and former translator, spends her twenties drifting through a meager ...

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

A grieving man faces the holidays for the first time without his beloved mother, who died unexpected...

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

This film follows the fortunes of an old Peugeot off loaded in Cotonou, Benin. As it changes hands w...

In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital...

Rocky Balboa is a Philadelphia club fighter who seems to be going nowhere. But when a stroke of fate...

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

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

A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patient's near death experiences.