Summary: Made up of images of South Africa, its nature, people and cities, without comment, edited to the hypnotic music of the Cape Town-based musician Campbell Burns.

Summary: 16 years passed since the revolution. Together with the owner of a local television post, two men undertake a TV broadcast if the revolution has happened in their village.

Summary: 16 years passed since the revolution. Together with the owner of a local television post, two men undertake a TV broadcast if the revolution has happened in their village.

Summary: A pointed moral tale from the master. Munho and Hyeon-gon are two friends who meet up years later to find out that both share a love affair with Seon-hwa.

Summary: After the death of his father, a shy young man lands a boring job as calendar-maker in Paris and falls in love with his charming neighbour Stéphanie.

Summary: Filmed in a Darfur displacement camp and in a remote village in the Nuba Mountains, this film tells the harrowing story of children caught in the crossfire of Sudan's two wars.

Summary: Filmed in a Darfur displacement camp and in a remote village in the Nuba Mountains, this film tells the harrowing story of children caught in the crossfire of Sudan's two wars.

Summary: On the night-time streets of Beira Port in Mozambique, commercial sex workers hold their own informal clinics to protect themselves against HIV.

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. 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. 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. 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. 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:

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: Separate lives intersect for the one moment, revolving around a discarded pastry bag and a African, and all are altered. We follow each as repercussions of the incident play out.

Summary: The story of a young man Yonas, who must come to grips with his father’s destructive behaviour and the resulting chaos that behaviour wrecks on Yonas family.

Summary: I. New Impressions of Africa by Raymond Roussel II. Midway Thru The Forest of a Thousand Daemons by Daniel Fagunwa (Yoruba) As usual, the group will offer a performance which will fuse the spoken word and storytelling of these texts with integrated music and visual elements.

Description: This film represents the peak of German expressionism and offers an enormous challenge to the musicians to explore the new possibilities of their instruments and sonorities. The movie is boldly conceived in an unsettling and extreme manner and cries out for a bold treatment which Sundiata had the capacity to offer.

Summary: A story of entangled relationships in which a group of high society characters converge for a weekend on an estate that produces revelations of hidden feelings and secrets.

Summary: Ngabo and his Sangwa leave Kigali to put something right from the past but when they stop at Sangwa’s parental home his father finds out that Ngabo is from a different tribe.

Summary: This was the first film to reveal the full horrors of apartheid to the world. Produced by a small group of black South African exiles based in London, it caused an uproar.

Summary: Determined to find out what white identity means to whites Desai strikes out on a road trip across South Africa with a light spirit and an enquiring mind.

Summary: We follow the lives of a father and son, each trying to find happiness in a dysfunctional family, where the wife and mother is at a loss of how to manage the men in her life.

Summary: The dead come back to life and eat the living. This was the premise for a simple low budget film independently produced in far-from-Hollywood Pittsburgh, Pa.