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 1936, as Palestinian villages revolt against British colonial rule, Yusuf navigates between Jerus...

A Danish writer travels to Mexico with the purpose of locating a mysterious Apache tribe that ferven...

In the fifties, when the future Democratic Republic of Congo was still a Belgian colony, an entire g...

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

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...

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

The year’s most spectacular Live Action short films.

In Portugal, during the night of April 24-25, 1974, a peaceful uprising put an end to the last gover...

After a series of personal and professional setbacks, a white advertising executive signs up to part...

In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charg...

A young British officer resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Su...

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

Rabie is a kid from Sétif in 1980, trying to collect money to buy a wheelchair for his paralyzid sis...
The chief priest in the village dies and the village is in turmoil. Onyeka is constantly being ridic...

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

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

Walter Burton's realistic photographs depicting poor treatment of Maori prisoners are rejected by la...

A dramatization of the relationship between heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.

A young unemployed man fends off accusations of laziness and makes a home for his pregnant girlfrien...