Summary: At the time when Maziar Bahari made this documentary, over 100 journalists had been killed or kidnapped in Iraq. The film contains original footage and photographs.

Summary: This curious murder mystery revolves around an old woman who wanders about in a deserted village. She is not truly alone, but rather surrounded by the souls of all people dear to her.

Summary: In this fantastic allegory After many years, a father and son will find themselves doomed to be on the opposite ends of a titanic, bloody and harrowing struggle.

Summary: Ekisil is a story telling film meant to help the viewer to understand a very important part of life, culture and values of the Karimojong people.

Summary: Sissoko’s most popular film shows the rise and fall of a cruel and despotic village chief Guimba, and his son Jangine in a fictional village in the Sahel of Mali.

Summary: Siliva the Zulu

Summary: A Dutch woman went missing on the peak of Mount Mulanje in 2003. Mythical explanations of the local people differ from the pragmatic explanations of others.

Summary:

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.

Summary:

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.

Summary:

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.

Summary:

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.

Summary:

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.

Summary:

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.

Summary:

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.

Summary:

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.

Summary:

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.

Summary:

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.

Summary:

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.

Summary:

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.

Summary: On the floor of the virunga mountain, where the gorrillas have their habitat, there is Alphonse with his genius bike that impresses every body in his community!

Summary: In this fascinating portrait of Leonard Johnson, a white homeless drug addict, the history of Johannesburg is turned on its head.

Summary: This is a true dream some 15 years ago dreamt by Wassanyi Henry Serukenya, mechanical engineer and music composer, on the shores of Dar es Salaam: “I woke up to write a poem yet to be publicly recited”

Summary: When a journalist is able to travel abroad to raport on his country a dangerous letter is discovered in his possession and he is incarcerated in one of Colonel Koulbou’s brutal underground prisons.

Summary: Sum Sum is Senegalese liquor that reportedly “makes the sun shine in your head”, but above all causes serious personal and social problems.

Summary: This journalistic portrait of Television Notre Patrie, the rebels TV station in the norhtern part of the country, is a thorough presentation of the history of this channel.

Summary: In four episodes, the figure of an artist stunningly passes through a mirror into another dimension, where he is enmeshed in various bizarre scenarios.

Summary: Sylla intended to film psychiatric patients who roam the streets of Dakar, but encountered Aminta Ngom who spends her days confined to the courtyard of her family’s house.

Summary: A nurse comes to the West Indies to care for Jessica. When she falls in love with the husband, Betsy determines to cure Jessica even if she needs to use a voodoo ceremony.

Description: Though the filmmaker prepared a soundtrack for Heaven and Earth Magic, often considered his masterwork, he had expressed an interest in a score of African drumming. But this never happened in his lifetime. Now Percussion Discussion Afrika have the unique opportunity to fulfil Harry’s wish and provide that music.

Summary: This film is an epic animated collage of victorian elements which have been reconfigured into an alchemical dream of encrypted languages and savage primordial states.

Summary: A slightly surreal game show centres on two American brothers, Ned and Nick who were separated at a young age while on safari.

Summary: Trapped together over Eastern in the ladies of the 15th floor of a Nairobi Skyscraper, the Luther and Di have no choice but to make the best of it despite their differences.

Summary: Rag and Tag are childhood friends who reunite after many years. During a trip to Nigeria they realize their feelings for each other are more than just friendship and their love blossoms.

Summary: A Detective works security at Dreampia, a department store rebuilt after a fire meets a girl who tells him that her sister did not die in the fire but is trapped in the mirrors.