A portrait of the mythical band Bembeya Jazz, which contributed to the heyday of Sekou Touré’s cultural revolution in Guinea. Created in 1961 in the heart of the rainforest, Bembeya Jazz rapidly became modern Africa’s greatest orchestra. 50 years later, immerse yourself in the history of a legend that livers on!

Set to a classic Duke Ellington recording "Daybreak Express", this is a five-minute short of the soo...

The search to prove that surfing is an African sport by traveling to the remote island nation of Sao...

Edeltraut Hertel - a midwife caught between two worlds. She has been working as a midwife in a small...

Feature-length documentary following award-winning wildlife cameraman Vianet Djenguet as he document...

In Uganda, AIDS-infected mothers have begun writing what they call Memory Books for their children. ...

An ethnographic film that documents the efforts of four !Kung men (also known as Ju/'hoansi or Bushm...

A documentary about the jazz standard and it's roots in Jewish and African-American culture/

Tenor saxophonist Jimmy McGary was a major presence in the Cincinnati music scene from the 1950s unt...

The film documents modern slave trade through a number of African countries, under dictatorship rule...

A talented group of orphaned children in Swaziland create a fictional heroine and send her on a dang...

With more than 300 days a year, the sun dominates this country so much that it’s even shining from t...

Tunahaki is the extraordinary story of nine gifted orphans who are acrobats. We follow their journey...

In the late 1990s, iconic photographer Bruce Weber barely managed to convince legendary actor Robert...

An Austrian director followed five successful African music and dance artists with his camera and fo...
A short documentary on jazz trombonist, Ryan Porter.

Tenor saxophone master Sonny Rollins has long been hailed as one of the most important artists in ja...

Djibril Diop Mambéty followed and filmed the shooting of Yaaba, Idrissa Ouédraogo's second feature f...

Filmmaker Karim Aïnouz decides to take a boat, cross the Mediterranean, and embark on his first jour...

In 1955, on his report, a medical examiner wrote in the box: age, “about 53 years”. Charlie Parker n...