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I want to be a girl again
🇳🇬 NigeriaThe movie follows a trail of Zara, a successful African doctor living in Wales, on a mission of mercy to Africa. Against the backdrop of a rich African culture, she experiences much turmoil and despair as she revisits the inexplicable horrors of her childhood, while working with suffering African women.. Zara meets a young girl facing tremendous obstacles and marvels at the revelation of the ties that binds them together.
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Oloibiri
🇳🇬 Nigeria The 1950sRevenge Has Come — This action thriller narrates the tale of Gunpowder (RMD) and Timipre (Olu Jacobs), two natives of Oloibiri, the town where oil was first discovered in commercial quantity in Nigeria. Gunpowder engages in violent struggle in protest to the squalid living conditions in his community despite their oil wealth; accusing Timipre’s generation of doing nothing whilst their land was exploited and plundered. (Amarachukwu Iwuala)
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The Cursed Ones
🇬🇭 Ghana 🇳🇬 NigeriaThe Cursed Ones tells the story of a disillusioned reporter and an idealistic young pastor, who fight to free a girl accused of witchcraft from the clutches of a system of corruption and superstition in the heart of West Africa.
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Road to Yesterday
🇳🇬 NigeriaA journey down the path of revelation — Victoria returns to Nigeria from the UK to help estranged husband Izu cope with his uncle's death. Hoping to save his marriage, Izu brings Victoria on his trip to the funeral, during which they reflect on their courtship, secrets and regrets.
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Taxi Driver
🇳🇬 NigeriaA ride as exciting, shady and hilarious as Lagos at night! — A small-town mechanic turned chauffeur for the mob gets caught up in the troubles of a beautiful sex worker, in this Scorsese-meets-Nollywood crime comedy that transforms the fast-paced and vibrant city of Lagos into an expressionistic film noir metropolis.
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The Visit
🇳🇬 NigeriaTwo couples living together in the same building, but with completely different lifestyles, find themselves bearing secrets and shocking revelations which sets them on course for something they never bargained for.
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Lunch Time Heroes
🇳🇬 NigeriaAssigned to teach a class of unruly high schoolers, a devoted young woman soon comes to find common ground with the kids, who seek only acceptance.
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Out of Luck
🇳🇬 NigeriaA lottery operator tries to pay off a local gangster by taking him on a thrill ride from the slums of Lagos Island to the mansions of Ikoyi and back.
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The Department
🇳🇬 NigeriaA former industrial saboteur is lured back by her corporate employer for one last job, but her husband disapproves and may need to take action.
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A Soldier's Story
🇳🇬 NigeriaAfter a battle between peacekeepers and rebels, one injured soldier is found comatose but alive by a scavenger who slowly nurses him back to health.
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Gbomo Gbomo Express
🇳🇬 NigeriaA record label executive has a celebratory night out and meets a beautiful socialite. This night out finds him in the hands of some desperate thugs, out for a ransom in exchange for his freedom.
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Age of Cannibals
🇳🇬 NigeriaÖllers and Niederländer have everything under control. For the past six years, the two successful business consultants have been traveling through some of the seediest countries around the world in order to satisfy their clients greed. They have achieved almost everything, but there is one career move left: to finally become a partner in the company! When they find out that their team colleague Hellinger made the cut, they are at their wits end. Up or Out is the name of the game. The fact that Hellinger falls from an office window for no explainable reason doesnt seem to help the situation. Of all people, the young and ambitious Bianca steps in for Hellinger. Öllers and Niederländer are irritated, sarcasm spreads, neuroses break out. The fight for survival within the company takes its toll the AGE OF CANNIBALS dawns.
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Timbuktu
🇲🇱 Mali The 2010sA song for freedom — A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives -- which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith -- abruptly disturbed. A look at the brief occupation of Timbuktu by militant Islamic rebels.
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N: The Madness Of Reason
🇲🇱 Mali The 1980sN recounts the story of the Frenchman Raymond Borremans, who left Europe for Africa in the mid-20th-century. He devoted his life to the creation of the first encyclopaedia of this other world, dreaming of eternal recognition. He died, however, having only reached the letter N. With his encyclopaedia incomplete, his restless spirit drifts around West Africa, caught between life and death, past and present. This is the story of how he tries to complete his unfinished task from beyond death. N is both visually and musically a truly striking film. It is a multi-layered audio-visual symphony of great narrative richness. Hovering between dream and reality, this magical film plays on the confrontation between the Western mind and African spirituality.
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October 1
🇳🇬 Nigeria The 1960sIts September 1960, and with Nigeria on the verge of independence from British colonial rule, a northern Nigerian Police Detective, DAN WAZIRI, is urgently despatched by the Colonial Government to the trading post town of Akote in the Western Region of Nigeria to solve a series of female murders that have struck horror in the hearts and minds of the local community. On getting to Akote, more murders are committed, and with local tension high and volatile, Waziri has a race on his hands to solve the case before even more local women are killed. Set against the backdrop of the national celebratory mood of the impending independence, Waziri is pulled into a game of cat and mouse as he and the killer try to outwit each other...
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When Love Happens
🇳🇬 NigeriaFed up with coordinating weddings for everyone else, unlucky-in-love event planner Mo turns to the internet to see if she can find her own Mr. Right.
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Dazzling Mirage
🇳🇬 NigeriaIs it worth risking it all to have it all? — An adaptation of Yinka Egbokhare's novel. The story of a young sickle-cell patient and the various social and emotional challenges she's faced with.
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Hazeezat
🇳🇬 NigeriaA naive Muslim girl is devastated when she falls pregnant and her married lover callously instructs her to abort the child. Her mission is to get back into his good graces, but she is unexpectedly distracted along the way.
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Doctor Bello
🇳🇬 NigeriaThe cure for cancer has been found... in the sky mountains of Africa... — Cancer specialist Dr. Michael Durant forms an unlikely bond with seven year old Sam and becomes desperate, willing to risk anything to save the child’s life. A surreptitious Nigerian Nurse convinces him to seek the help of Dr. Bello, an uncertified Nigerian Doctor, known in the Brooklyn-African underground as a miracle worker.
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Aya of Yop City
🇨🇮 Côte dIvoire The 1970sWhile Aya has dreams of becoming a doctor, her two best friends, Adjoua and Bintou, just like to hang out and spend their evenings dancing, drinking and flirting with boys. Their ambition is to follow Plan C: Combs, Clothes and Chasing Men! But big trouble comes to town when Adjoua realizes she’s pregnant, and the baby’s father is the spoiled son of one of the richest and most feared men in the whole country.
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Half of a Yellow Sun
🇳🇬 Nigeria The 1960sAn epic love story: Olanna and Kainene are glamorous twins, living a privileged city life in newly independent 1960s Nigeria. The two women make very different choices of lovers, but rivalry and betrayal must be set aside as their lives are swept up in the turbulence of war.
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B for Boy
🇳🇬 NigeriaB For Boy is a contemporary drama set in Nigeria, about one woman's desperate need for a male child; which reveals the discrimination of women in the names of culture and religion.
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Flower Girl
🇳🇬 NigeriaNigerian comedy about a young woman who wants to get married, but her boyfriend is only interested in furthering his career, so she seeks help to get him to tie the knot.
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Portrait of a Lone Farmer
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Lagos Cougars
🇳🇬 NigeriaThree corporate women - Elsie (Monalisa Chinda), Aret (Uche Jombo) and Joke (Daniella Okeke) - in their quest to find love and explore their fantasies.
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Pokou, Ashanti Princess
🇨🇮 Côte dIvoire 🇬🇭 GhanaIn the eighteenth century, in the Ashanti people's kingdom, which covers two-thirds of what is now Ghana, lived Princess Abla Pokou. A very influential advisor to King Opokou Warê, she was opposed to war. She and former warrior Kongouê Bian became involved in a tale of political intrigue.
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Murder At Prime Suites
🇳🇬 NigeriaPrivate detectives are on a mission to unravel the mystery behind the sudden death of a university student who secretly embarks on a journey to an unknown place unbeknownst to all that know her.
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Stigma
🇳🇬 NigeriaThe daughter of a local midwife has her childhood brought to an abrupt halt when her mother decides to marry a local Lothario. Quickly her new stepfather shows his nasty side including his penchant for other women, theft and alcohol abuse. When her mother's health takes a turn for the worse they are ostracized from the community.
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journey to self
🇳🇬 NigeriaJOURNEY TO SELF is an intense story of friendship, sacrifice, empowerment and self-respect.It tells the story of four friends, Nse (Nse Ikpe-Etim), Regina (Ashionye Michelle-Raccah), Alex (Dakore Akande) and Rume (Katherine Obiang Edoho) who lose a mutual childhood friend, Uche (Tosin Sido). Uche speaks through a series of letters stirring her friends to a journey of self-discovery… a ‘Journey to Self’
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Chimpanzee
🇨🇮 Côte dIvoireFor Oscar, every day is an adventure — A nature documentary centered on a family of chimps living in the Ivory Coast and Ugandan rain forests.
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Last Flight to Abuja
🇳🇬 Nigeria The 2000sMid-air difficulties force a Nigerian commercial plane into an emergency landing with devastating consequences.
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Burn it Up Djassa
🇨🇮 Côte dIvoireA raw, noir-tinged urban legend set to the cadence of slam poetry and the beat of street dance, Burn It Up Djassa signals the arrival of an exciting new artistic movement from Africa's Ivory Coast.
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Phone Swap
🇳🇬 NigeriaAkin and Mary meet for the first time at an airport where they accidentally bump into each other and mistakenly swap their identical phones . This leads to a destination mix up after they receive one another's text regarding a travel destination. Consequently, Akin ends up traveling to where Mary is supposed to go and vice versa. Neither knows about the swap until they have reached their opposite destinations and "the phone" stops ringing (In Mary's case) and "Won't stop ringing" (In Akins's case) . As a result of the phone swap, they agree to help carry out each other's missions, armed with the information and data on each other's phone. But it's not as easy as they both think as new obstacles and complications rise at every turn as they both struggle to adapt to their alien environment and situation. Mary has to walk in Akins shoes and represent him in a company meeting while Akin has to represent Mary in her the family meeting. This they do with hilarious results
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Capitaine Thomas Sankara
🇧🇫 Burkina FasoA portrait composed of archives of Thomas Sankara, president of Burkina Faso between 1983 and his murder in 1987. Ready to liberate his country and transform the mentalities of his fellow citizens, contesting the world’s political order and challenging the powers of his time, Sankara stands out strongly in the history both of Africa and of the world.
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Black November
🇳🇬 NigeriaBlood Will Be Spilled — A volatile, oil-rich Nigerian community wages war against their corrupt government and a multi-national oil corporation to protect their land from being destroyed by excessive drilling and spills. To seek justice, a rebel organization kidnaps an American oil executive and demands that his corporation end the destruction and pollution. Inspired by true events, Black November is the gripping story of how a community rises up and takes drastic measures to make sure their voices are heard.
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Hamou-Beya, Sand Fishers
🇲🇱 MaliThe Bozo of Mali are people of the water. For generations, they have lived along the banks of the Niger river, fishing for their livelihood. But climate change and drought have brought lower water levels and fewer fish - driving young Bozo men to leave their villages in search of work. Gala is one of these men. Like many young Bozo, he has moved to the capital, Bamako, and works as a sand fisher - dredging up sand and gravel by hand from the river's banks and bottom, and using large wooden pirogues to ferry it ashore. Here, it will be loaded into trucks and used for bricks, concrete mix and tiling - all to feed the construction boom in the country's largest city.
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Maami
🇳🇬 Nigeria The 1980s The 2010sA poor Nigerian woman named Maami protects her young son, Kashimawo, from his father who carries a terrible secret.
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The Meeting
🇳🇬 NigeriaIt was just a meeting until... — Makinde is at the mercy of political patronage when he tries to secure a government contract.
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The Double Steps
🇲🇱 MaliFiction inspired by the novelistic biography of the painter and writer Francois Augiéras. The artist covered with paints a military bunker in the desert, and let it sink into the sand so no one could find it until the XXI century. The search continues to feed the myth bunker ... Who is Augiéras? ¿Legionnaire, painter, writer, gunman, holy, thief, devil or a mixture of all?
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An African Election
🇬🇭 GhanaFilmmaker Jarreth Merz directs this eye-opening documentary about the 2008 presidential elections in Ghana, chronicling the start-to-finish drama of campaigning in a nation that's long served as a measure of the continent's political stability.
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The Mirror Boy
🇬🇲 GambiaThe Mirror Boy is a mystical journey through Africa, seen through the eyes of a 12 year old boy, Tijan. After a London street fight, in which a local boy is hurt, Tijan's mother decides to take him back to their roots, to Gambia. On their arrival in Banjul, Tijan encounters a strange apparition, a boy smiling at him in a mirror and vanishing. Seeing the same boy in a crowded street market the next day sets in motion a chain of events, with Tijan finding himself lost. While Tijan's panic-stricken mother struggles to find her son, Tijan is left alone in the company of the enigmatic Mirror Boy, seemingly only visible to him. After a bruising spiritual rite of passage, The Mirror Boy takes Tijan on a mystical journey, but not all is what it seems.
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Ramata
🇸🇳 SenegalRamata is a spellbindingly beautiful woman in her fifties. She has been married for thirty years now to Matar Samb, a very rich man, a former prosecutor who is now Minister of Justice. They live in Les Almadies, an elegant neighborhood of Dakar. Ngor Ndong is twenty-five. He is young, strong, mysterious and homeless. He is an occasional petty crook, known to the police. One evening, in a taxi that Ngor Ndong just happens to be driving, Ramata, reticent at first, finally agrees to follow this young man half her age to the Copacabana, a dive in the seediest part of Dakar.
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The Witches of Gambaga
🇬🇭 GhanaThe Witches Of Gambaga is the extraordinary story of a community of women condemned to live as witches in Northern Ghana. — The Witches Of Gambaga is the extraordinary story of a community of women condemned to live as witches in Northern Ghana. Every year in this part of Ghana, hundreds of women endure communal and domestic violence as a result of traditional religious beliefs that demonize women. These beliefs, combined with decades of poor health and educational standards, mean women inhabit a world where it is believed that nothing – not even illness or death – happens by chance. For over a century, women from all over the northern region have found refuge in a camp in the town of Gambaga, where they live under the protection of the chief, Gambarrana, the custodian of one of four places of sanctuary for women condemned of witchcraft. Made over the course of 5 years, this disturbing expose is the product of a collaboration between members of the 100-strong community of 'witches' and women’s movement activists determined to end abusive practices and improve women’s lives in Africa.
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Checkmate
🇬🇭 GhanaKwame has made all the right moves in his life; a good job, a beautiful devoted wife, an adorable child, and an impending promotion as a senior customs officer at the airport. But what seems like a typical guys hang out on a weekend away from home in the company of his new friend and mentor, Kiki, turns out to be the one wrong move Kwame makes. After losing a game of Chess, he succumbs to a bet to seduce the attractive, sexy Caroline.
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2016: Part 1
🇬🇭 Ghana The 2010sTw-tw-twenty sixteen! — In 2010, a scientist discovers aliens in orbit that resemble a cross between H.R. Giger's famous creation and Predator who want to invade Earth. They choose to start their invasion in Ghana because it is the most peaceful nation on the planet. The murderous aliens claim that they will have the entire planet colonized by the year 2016.
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Men in Love
🇳🇬 NigeriaFew years into their marriage, a young lady discovers her husband is emphatically promiscuous. Situation gets worse when she realises that she is about losing her husband.
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Relentless
🇳🇬 Nigeria 🇸🇱 Sierra LeoneIt's maddening to be alone in a city with 14 million people. — Relentless tells the story of Obi (Gideon Okeke), a Nigerian peacekeeping soldier who has been deployed to war-torn Sierra Leone. Obi's world is crushed after Blessing, a Sierra Leonean woman whom Obi loves, is mutilated by a gang of child soldiers and he's forced to kill her in order to put her out of pain and misery. He eventually returns to Lagos after the war, and tries to reintegrate himself into his community; in the process, he finds solace in the arms of a prostitute, Honey (Nneka Egbuna) who may help him forget his haunting past and lead him to self-discovery.
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine
🇳🇬 Nigeria The 1970s The 1940s The 1910s The 1860s The 1840sWitness the Origin. — After seeking to live a normal life, Logan sets out to avenge the death of his girlfriend by undergoing the mutant Weapon X program and becoming Wolverine.
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Running the Sahara
🇲🇱 Mali 🇲🇷 Mauritania 🇳🇪 Niger 🇸🇳 SenegalThree men attempt to become the first humans to run coast to coast across the Sahara Desert — A small film crew tracks three extreme runners across the Sahara desert, capturing their incredible journey on camera, recording this landmark moment in athleticism, in humanitarianism, and in history. The "Running the Sahara" expedition is a documentary film narrated by Academy Award™-winner Matt Damon and directed by Academy Award™-winner James Moll. The "Running the Sahara" documentary explores the physical and emotional impact of this tremendous test of strength and determination. The film's narrative follows the runners on their quest, each step toward the finish line building in great anticipation of answering the question: Can this amazing human feat truly be possible?
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