This special, behind-the-scenes film takes us on a trip to Mali to witness Amadou & Mariam at home and their musical encounter with legendary artist and producer Manu Chao during the making of their hit album Dimanche à Bamako, The music provides the lifeblood of the film, featuring the hits Sénégal Fast Food and La Realité, popular favourites Coulibaly, M’Bifé and Camions Sauvages plus a rare, unreleased live song by Manu Chao, Kira.
Edeltraut Hertel - a midwife caught between two worlds. She has been working as a midwife in a small...
In 1975, Ryszard Kapuściński, a veteran Polish journalist, embarked on a seemingly suicidal road tri...
Director Ken Loach explores the politics of race, class and charity in a capitalist society in this ...
Tunahaki is the extraordinary story of nine gifted orphans who are acrobats. We follow their journey...
October 8, 2005. Togo, one of Africa's poorest countries, qualifies for the World Cup for the first ...
In 1981, seven Libyan exiles formed the core opposition group to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Thirty yea...
Christof Wackernagel, best known in Germany as an actor and former member of the Red Army Faction ("...
A look into the lives of Malawi's 1 million plus orphans in the wake of the AIDS pandemic. It offers...
A documentary about investigators of the International Criminal Court trying to gather evidence of c...
At the time of Tunisian independence, owners of large boats decide to sell, while many small fisherm...
Famed explorer Lewis Cotlow leads a hunting and archaeological expedition into Africa.
A three-part study that introduces audiences to the celebrated Martinican author Aimé Césaire, who c...
Filmmaker Karim Aïnouz decides to take a boat, cross the Mediterranean, and embark on his first jour...
A documentary that leads the audience from Namibia to Kilimanjaro to explore the African wildlife.
It's war. War against an invisible enemy that is not as deadly as we are told. The world is changing...
Sven Nykvist, best known as Ingmar Bergman cinematographer, made this film as a tribute to his fathe...
This film is the result of more than two years of work tracking down archive material and witnesses ...
The Gangbé Brass Band, a musical group from Benin, sets out to conquer Lagos, capital of Nigeria.
On the African plains, where only the strong survive, one big cat rules supreme. This is life in the...
In 1896, Ethiopia, an African nation, largely armed with spears and knives, defeats a well-equipped ...