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.

At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat capta...

Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.

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

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

The ruthless dictator Teodoro Obiang has ruled Equatorial Guinea with an iron hand since 1979. Juan ...

On their wedding night, a couple rescue a baby from a garbage bin only to adopt it some years later.

A black and a white woman meets in Dar es Salam because of their men, and starts a friendship, despi...

Miguel, a heroic Spanish doctor, puts himself in harm's way to deliver medical treatment to the vict...
The chief priest in the village dies and the village is in turmoil. Onyeka is constantly being ridic...

Rabie is a kid from Sétif in 1980, trying to collect money to buy a wheelchair for his paralyzid sis...

In 1890s India, an arrogant British commander challenges the harshly taxed residents of Champaner to...

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

This film tells the story of the president of a fictitious African nation who spends a sleepless nig...

In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.

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

Inspired by the true story of indomitable Kuki Gallmann, the film tells of a beautiful and inquisiti...

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

In 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domesti...

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...