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.

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Juju Stories tackles juju in contemporary Lagos through three stories. In Love Potion, by Omonua, an...

Directed by Peter Casaer and narrated by Daniel Day-Lewis, this documentary provides a harrowing loo...

In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native...

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1936. As villages across Palestine rise against British colonial rule, Yusuf drifts between his rura...

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

An epic about anthropologists who hunt and capture pygmies for study back in Europe, in an attempt t...

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

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

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

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

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A portrait of Rita, who claims that her mother was never a mother for her. Rita gives birth to her o...

Spain, 2003. An accidental discovery leads Clarence to travel from the snowy mountains of Huesca to ...