Summary: This film collects a series of modest portraits of street children trying to survive in the Ghanian capitol of Accra.

Summary: This film explores the transformative role of hip-hop on politics in Senegal during the February 2007 presidential election campaign

Summary: Amin returns suddenly to Fes, Morocco, where his uncle is dying. He has not spoken with the man who brought him up since he left his hometown ten years earlie

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Summary: This film follows Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the first female president in Africa in her first year in office and the daunting tasks she faces in war torn Liberia.

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1. Raquel Cepeda, Bling! a Planet Rock (US/Sierra Leone, 2007, 87 min.)

This film takes a look at how the flashy world of commercial hip-hop played a significant role in the 10-year civil war in Sierra Leone.

2. David Lachapelle, Rize (U.S.A., 2005, 86 min.)

Rize reveals a dance phenomenon born from oppression in US ghettos which modernizes moves unique to African tribal rituals with athletic movement sped up to impossible speeds.

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1. Raquel Cepeda, Bling! a Planet Rock (US/Sierra Leone, 2007, 87 min.)

This film takes a look at how the flashy world of commercial hip-hop played a significant role in the 10-year civil war in Sierra Leone.

2. David Lachapelle, Rize (U.S.A., 2005, 86 min.)

Rize reveals a dance phenomenon born from oppression in US ghettos which modernizes moves unique to African tribal rituals with athletic movement sped up to impossible speeds.

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1. Fadika Kramo-Laancine, Djeli (Ivory Coast, 1981, 92 min)

Two Ivorian students are in love and talking about marriage. Despite their fast-changing world, the two families oppose the marriage of their children in the name of tradition.

2. Adama Drabo, Taafe Fanga (Skirt Power) (Mali, 1997, 103 min.)

One of the Dogon legends told in the form of a comedy discusses the subject of women in a changing society through the story of the women’s uprising on the rocks of Bandiagara.

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1. Fadika Kramo-Laancine, Djeli (Ivory Coast, 1981, 92 min)

Two Ivorian students are in love and talking about marriage. Despite their fast-changing world, the two families oppose the marriage of their children in the name of tradition.

2. Adama Drabo, Taafe Fanga (Skirt Power) (Mali, 1997, 103 min.)

One of the Dogon legends told in the form of a comedy discusses the subject of women in a changing society through the story of the women’s uprising on the rocks of Bandiagara.

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1. Roger Gnoan M’Bala, In the Name of Christ (1993, Ivory Coast, 82 min.)

In a small Ivorian village lives a much-despised little swineherd. One day, after one drink too many, a childlike God comes to him in a vision and elects him to save his people.

2. Franco Sacchi, This is Nollywood (U.S.A., 2007, 53 min)

This film tells the story of the Nigerian film industry—a revolution enabling Africans with few resources to tell African stories to African audiences.

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1. Roger Gnoan M’Bala, In the Name of Christ (1993, Ivory Coast, 82 min.)

In a small Ivorian village lives a much-despised little swineherd. One day, after one drink too many, a childlike God comes to him in a vision and elects him to save his people.

2. Franco Sacchi, This is Nollywood (U.S.A., 2007, 53 min)

This film tells the story of the Nigerian film industry—a revolution enabling Africans with few resources to tell African stories to African audiences.

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1. Femke and Ilse Van Velzen, Fighting the Silence (The Netherlands, 2007, 53 min)

During Congo’s 7 year war, 80.000 women were raped. The story of women and men to change their society that prefers to blame victims rather than prosecute rapists.

2. Daniel Junge, Iron Ladies of Liberia (USA, 2007, 77 min.)

This film follows Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the first female president in Africa in her first year in office and the daunting tasks she faces in war torn Liberia.

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1. Femke and Ilse Van Velzen, Fighting the Silence (The Netherlands, 2007, 53 min)

During Congo’s 7 year war, 80.000 women were raped. The story of women and men to change their society that prefers to blame victims rather than prosecute rapists.

2. Daniel Junge, Iron Ladies of Liberia (USA, 2007, 77 min.)

This film follows Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the first female president in Africa in her first year in office and the daunting tasks she faces in war torn Liberia.

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1. Ousmane Sembene, Mandabi (The Money Order) (Senegal, 1968, 90 min)

A poor Senegalese Muslim who, upon trying to cash a money-order at his village post office, somehow finds himself pitted against bureaucratic and societal forces.

2. Ousmane Sembene, Xala (Senegal, 1973, 128 min)

It is the dawn of Senegal's independence from France, but as the citizens celebrate in the streets we soon become aware that only the faces have changed.

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1. Ousmane Sembene, Mandabi (The Money Order) (Senegal, 1968, 90 min)

A poor Senegalese Muslim who, upon trying to cash a money-order at his village post office, somehow finds himself pitted against bureaucratic and societal forces.

2. Ousmane Sembene, Xala (Senegal, 1973, 128 min)

It is the dawn of Senegal's independence from France, but as the citizens celebrate in the streets we soon become aware that only the faces have changed.

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1. Kyle O’Donoghue, Brass Boys (South-Africa, 2007, 42 min.)

The Young Brass Sounds was founded in 2005 to cheer on the Ajax Cape Town team. The band keeps the kids off the street and away from gang related violence.

2. Robert Zemeckis and Richard Williams, Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (USA, 1988, 120 min.)

Here animated characters are real beings who live and work alongside humans in the real world, most of them as actors in animated cartoons.

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1. Kyle O’Donoghue, Brass Boys (South-Africa, 2007, 42 min.)

The Young Brass Sounds was founded in 2005 to cheer on the Ajax Cape Town team. The band keeps the kids off the street and away from gang related violence.

2. Robert Zemeckis and Richard Williams, Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (USA, 1988, 120 min.)

Here animated characters are real beings who live and work alongside humans in the real world, most of them as actors in animated cartoons.

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Summary: A man relates a story at a fair where they meet Dr. Caligari, who exhibits a somnambulist, Cesare, who predicts the future. A terrible prophecy is offered which comes to pass.

Summary: Dorothy lives on a farm in Kansas until a cyclone picks her, her house and her dog up and deposits them in the land of Oz. The way home proves to be filled with obstacles.

Summary: This film profiles the life of a young South African musician, Unathi living abroad driven by her gusto for life and single minded determination to succeed against all odds.

Summary: Buñuel’s penultimate film, it contains short incidents and scenarios collected from throughout Buñuel's life, arranged in the style of a surreal game.

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Summary: Zonk! confirms that despite the poverty and degradation of township life, the human spirit could triumph through music.

Summary: It started 50 years ago, when a white bank clerk bought an old movie theatre in a black neighbourhood of Memphis to start a music studio, concentrating on soul and R&B artists

Summary: Juliet has reason to suspect that her husband is leading a double life which becomes the prompt for the altogether more complex double life that she will find herself in.

Summary: Donnie, an intelligent though emotionally troubled teenager sleepwalks when one night, a mysterious jet engine from a commercial aircraft falls into his bedroom.