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.

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

An American couple drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.

A fearsome 19th century bandit, Cobra Verde cuts a swath through Brazil until he arrives at the suga...

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...

Hacking at Leaves documents artist and hazmat-suit aficionado Johannes Grenzfurthner as he attempts ...

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

In the summer of 1863, General Robert E. Lee leads the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia into Ge...

Two adventurers and best friends, Roland and Manu, are the victims of a practical joke that costs Ma...

A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the...

Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.

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...

A failed track coach finally finds someone who he believes has what it takes to win. The Comrades Ma...

On the one hand, there’s the desert eating away at the land. The endless dry season, the lack of wat...

This film presents a harsh critique of the Koranic teaching through the tragic story of a small tali...

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

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