Praia, Cape Verde. Laura, Flavia and Bela are childhood friends. Each leads her own life and they sometimes meet to dance, dine and have fun. But one day the calm rivers of their lives break their banks and become wild torrents: Ricardo, Flavia's husband, rapes his pupil Indira, Laura's 13-year old eldest daughter. A film that takes a critical look at the lives of women in Cape Verde.

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

On her way to visit her childhood home in a colonial outpost in Northern Cameroon, a young French wo...

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), the mission doctor, theologian and philosopher who founded a hospital...

Growing increasingly desperate, a married woman asks her young associate to seduce her husband in or...

French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their Ger...

White hunter Allan Quartermain and his enigmatic guide help a young Irish woman locate her missing f...

A young man having omitted to make the ritual offerings of voodoo, suffers the wrath of the spirits.

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

This excellent feature-length documentary - the story of the imperialist colonization of Africa - is...

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

This film presents a harsh critique of the Koranic teaching through the tragic story of a small tali...
Based on a traditional African tale. A king has the habit whilst walking in disguise on the streets ...

Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the s...

A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the surviv...

Two brothers are divided by marriage and fate during the 100 horrifying days of the 1994 Rwandan gen...

An Italian in East Africa having an affair with a coloured woman realises that his treatment of her ...

Set in the 1800s among the Berbers of North Africa, this 1997 Algerian feature concerns a noble wido...

At the outbreak of the Second World War, two friends, Mokrane and Menach, abruptly interrupt their s...

Beginning of the 20th century in the east of Sudan. Tajouj is the beautiful cousin of a young tribes...

Cape Verde, 1964. At the feet of a mighty volcano, the traditional Cape Verdean society is undergoin...