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For Xala, Sembene adapted his own novel: A government official, "El Hadji,” on marrying his third wife, on his wedding night is struck with a ‘xala’, a curse of impotence.

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Prof. Henri Laborit (played by himself) uses the stories of the lives of three people to discuss behaviorist theories of survival, combat, rewards and punishment, and anxiety.

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A fresh vantage point on modern life is offered through the eyes of a black extraterrestrial who crash lands on Earth—in Harlem, naturally—and is taken in by the regulars at a local bar. The alien changes everyone he meets on his journey through the streets of urban America. But can his message of brotherly love resonate with intergalactic bounty hunters trying to track him down?

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In the Eastern Cape hamlet of Hamburg a fully-fledged war is being fought by grandmothers, the hospice, the good doctor Carol and Eunice for hope, human dignity and the will to live.

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At night and on weekends, four men in a suburban garage have built a cottage industry of error-checking devices when they stumble on something beyond imagination.

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In1977, the Japanese school girl Megumi disappeared off the face of the earth as if by magic. Thirty years later, the family and the acquaintances of the girl are still stunned.

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The film provides an unsparing view of village life and traditions while capturing the fateful constrictions brought about by custom.

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The film follows a cart driver through Dakar as he scrapes together a living. The cart driver’s reflections are offered as voice over while the different people he meets en route.

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Common law is not recognized in Congolese law, but the population adheres to the procedures that are governed by rituals and passed on from one generation to the next.

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Cheryl is young, black, and lesbian and consumed by a film project on her search for a black actress who appeared in 1930s films and was known as the Watermelon Woman.