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...

A young mute woman is raped and becomes pregnant, with disastrous consequences within her family. Th...

A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daug...

A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pur...

The year is 1950 and an English couple, Louise and Michael, have arrived in French-occupied Indochin...

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

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

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

A gently humorous look at otherness and xenophobia in modern day German with this tale of a black Be...

An African diplomat who has returned to his native country after a long stay in Europe realizes that...
An aging village chief entrenched in traditional Cameroonian ways clashes with his daughter. She wa...

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

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