In the midst of the Algerian War in 1957, fighters (fidayounes) resisted French intervention with the help of a doctor.

The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the so...
Smith arrives in Dar es Salaam to tie up loose ends. He is helped by others on quests of their own.

Selim Mechoubine, a young man of 28, is the eldest of a large family. In the cramped accommodation h...

The autobiography of a Somalian nomad who was sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later...

Ding Hui is a member of Purple Butterfly, a powerful resistance group in Japanese occupied Shanghai....

Run escapes... He just killed the Prime Minister of his country. In order to do so, he had to act as...

Rachid is a young man who survives in Morroco boxing in clandestine fights in order to save enough m...

The story of a German singer named Willie, who while working in Switzerland, falls in love with a Je...

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with un...

In WWII-era Rome, underground resistance leader Manfredi attempts to evade the Gestapo by enlisting ...

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

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childh...

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

Krotoa, a feisty, bright, 11-year-old girl is removed from her close-knit Khoi tribe to serve Jan va...

A couple sets up an African game preserve, only to have British and Italian armies fight over the wa...

In Algiers in 1993, while the civil war is starting, Mrs Osmane's tenants have to endure her bad tem...

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved t...

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

Ali is the image of modern Africa. He happily returns from a football match on his motorbike but a n...

The story of Quincy Bosomfield who is the product of colonial education and has risen to become the ...