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Hondros
🇱🇾 Libya 🇱🇷 Liberia The 2000s The 2010sHONDROS follows the life and career of famous war photographer Chris Hondros by exploring the poignant and often surprising stories behind this award-winning photojournalist's best-known photos. Driven by a commitment to bear witness to the wars of our time after the events of 9/11, Chris was among the first in a new generation of war photographers since Vietnam. HONDROS explores the complexities inherent in covering more than a decade of conflict, while trying to maintain a normal life. It also examines the unknowable calculus involved in making split-second life and death decisions -- before, during and after his photos were made. Chris was killed in Libya in 2011, but he left a lasting impact on his profession that is still felt today.
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The Forgiven
🇿🇦 South Africa The 1990sRacist. Prisoner. Murderer. Child of God. — After the end of Apartheid, Archbishop Desmond Tutu meets with a brutal murderer seeking redemption.
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Happy Family
🇪🇬 EgyptThe Wishbone family are far from happy. In an attempt to reconnect as a family, they plan a fun night out. However, the plan backfires when they are cursed and all turned into Monsters.
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Liyana
🇸🇿 EswatiniDark memories. Bright dreams. — A talented group of orphaned children in Swaziland create a fictional heroine and send her on a dangerous quest.
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The Angel
🇪🇬 Egypt The 1970sTrue story of Ashraf Marwan, who was President Nasser's son-in-law and special adviser and confidant to his successor Anwar Sadat - while simultaneously Israeli Intelligence's most precious asset of the 20th century. Based on NYT bestselling book 'The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel' by Uri Bar-Joseph.
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Dumped
🇷🇪 RéunionFrançoise has just been dumped by her husband for a much younger woman. In order to cheer her up, and to celebrate her 60th birthday, sisters Rose and Alice decide to take their mother to a resort on the tropical island of Reunion so they can relax, work on their tans, and have too many margaritas. But when Rose pays a one-night stand, Thierry, to show her mother a good time, their holiday plans start to unravel.
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Belleville Cop
Africa - GeneralWhen a childhood friend from Miami gets killed after he comes to warn of encroaching drug gangs, Baaba moves to Miami and teams up with a local officer to bring down the criminals.
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Mia and the White Lion
🇿🇦 South AfricaFriendship is the wildest adventure of all — A young girl from London moves to Africa with her parents where she befriends a lion cub.
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Sudani from Nigeria
🇳🇬 NigeriaWhen a soccer club manager brings one of his injured foreign players home to recuperate, they form an unlikely bond despite their cultural differences.
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Congo - A Political Tragedy
🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of theThe Path to Freedom — Resource-rich Africa has been a feeding hand for many successful countries and businesses that have never really benefited the continent itself nor the majority of its people. First of a 3-film series, Congo: A Political Tragedy is a feature-length documentary chronicling the political history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from the arrival of the first European settlers to the nation’s struggle for independence. It offers the unique perspective of Congolese co-writers Patrick Kabeya and Mina Malu, as they document the history of a country that has so far mostly been told through the eyes of foreigners.
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Yomeddine
🇪🇬 EgyptA Coptic leper and his orphaned apprentice leave the confines of the leper colony for the first time and embark on a journey across Egypt to search for what is left of their families.
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Sofia
🇲🇦 MoroccoSofia, 20, lives with her parents in Casablanca. Suffering from pregnancy denial, she finds herself breaking the law by giving birth to a baby out of wedlock. The hospital gives her 24 hours to provide the father's papers before informing the authorities…
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The Harvesters
🇿🇦 South Africa The 1970sSouth Africa, Free State region, isolated stronghold to the Afrikaans white ethnic minority culture. In this conservative farming territory obsessed with strength and masculinity, Janno is different, secretive, emotionally frail. One day his mother, fiercely religious, brings home Pieter, a hardened street orphan she wants to save, and asks Janno to make this stranger into his brother. The two boys start a fight for power, heritage and parental love.
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Rafiki
🇰🇪 KenyaKena and Ziki long for something more. Despite the political rivalry between their families, the girls resist and remain close friends, supporting each other to pursue their dreams in a conservative society. When love blossoms between them, the two girls will be forced to choose between happiness and safety.
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Boxing Libreville
🇬🇦 Gabon The 2010sLibreville, Gabon, Africa, 2016. Christ, a young boxer, trains tirelessly during the day and earns his living by night as a bouncer in nightclubs. At the same time, the combat of the presidential elections is taking place. As Christ hopes to succeed, a whole country hopes that a democratic transition finally triumphs.
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Nigerian Prince
🇳🇬 NigeriaAfter being sent to Nigeria against his will, a stubborn Nigerian-American teenager, joins forces with an internet scammer, in order to return to the United States.
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The Trough
🇳🇦 NamibiaYu Chau is a cop who has gone so deep undercover within the triad. He can no longer tell which side of the law he's on. When he accidentally kills one of his pals in an operation, he runs off into the boonies to lick his wounds. Upon his return, he teams up with fellow officers Jim and Jackie to catch a triad Boss, only to unveil collusion with government officials at the highest level. Yu Chau once again faces the dilemma of taking the law into his own hands...
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Beautifully Broken
🇷🇼 Rwanda The 1990sA Refugee's escape, a prisoner's promise and a daughter's painful secret converge in this inspiring real life story of hope. — As three fathers fight to save their families, their lives become interwined in an unlikely journey across the globe, where they learn the healing power of forgiveness and reconciliation.
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Alien Crystal Palace
🇪🇬 EgyptA scientist finds the secret that predispose to the formation of the ideal couple. With this new alchemy, he achieves a pioneering experience: the creation of a perfect androgynous.
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The Burial of Kojo
Africa - GeneralA man is trapped in a mine shaft by his vengeful brother while his daughter embarks on a magical journey to rescue him.
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Nefta Football Club
🇹🇳 TunisiaIn the south of Tunisia, two football fan brothers bump into a donkey lost in the middle of the desert on the border of Algeria. Strangely, the animal wears headphones over its ears.
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Up North
🇳🇬 NigeriaA young rebellious heir from a wealthy family is sent away to National Service in Northern Nigeria. Things don't quite go according to plan as the spoiled heir begins to find himself.
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Merry Men: The Real Yoruba Demons
🇳🇬 NigeriaFour promiscuous businessmen must scheme to save the poor people of a village after a corrupt politician challenges them.
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Azali
🇬🇭 GhanaThrust into Accra by circumstances, a 14-year-old girl from northern Ghana must endure life in the slums of Accra and find a way to get back home — 14-year-old Amina from northern Ghana gets sent away to Burkina Faso by her mother to prevent her marriage to an elderly man. However, fate intervenes in the form of kidnappers who bring her to Accra. What trials and tribulations await Amina in the slums of Accra? Will she ever find a way to escape?
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Lagos Real Fake Life
🇳🇬 NigeriaLagos Real Fake Life is a true life comedy movie that showcases the realistic and so so fake lifestyle of some people who reside in, or even visit LAGOS. For some it’s “Stay Content and Wait” and for others its “FAKE it Till you MAKE IT”.
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A Kalabanda Ate My Homework
🇺🇬 UgandaA tale of a boy and his encounter with a Kakalabanda (a mythical creature that is said to haunt schools in Uganda) bringing a ridiculous twist to the infamous excuse “the dog ate my homework“.
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Poacher
🇰🇪 Kenya The 2010sA desperate farmer runs into trouble after he steals a stash of blood ivory from a gang of international terrorists.
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Disconnect
🇰🇪 Kenya The 2010sDisconnect — A romantic comedy that brings out the intricacies and absurdities of the Nairobi dating scene.
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Geostorm
Africa - General The 2010s The 2020sSome things were never meant to be controlled. — After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellites to control the global climate and keep everyone safe. But now, something has gone wrong: the system built to protect Earth is attacking it, and it becomes a race against the clock to uncover the real threat before a worldwide geostorm wipes out everything and everyone along with it.
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The Last Face
🇱🇷 Liberia 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone 🇳🇬 Nigeria The 2000sMiguel, a heroic Spanish doctor, puts himself in harm's way to deliver medical treatment to the victims of military uprisings in Africa.
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Revolt
🇰🇪 KenyaThe story of humankind's last stand against a cataclysmic alien invasion. Set in the war-ravaged African countryside, a U.S. soldier and a French foreign aid worker team up to survive the alien onslaught. Their bond will be tested as they search for refuge across a crumbling world.
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Transformers: The Last Knight
🇳🇦 Namibia The Middle AgesFor one world to live, the other must die. — Autobots and Decepticons are at war, with humans on the sidelines. Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried in the secrets of the past, in the hidden history of Transformers on Earth.
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Submergence
🇰🇪 KenyaLove has no limits — While James More is held captive by terrorists in Somalia, thousands of miles away on the Greenland Sea, his lover Danny Flinders prepares to dive herself in a submersible into the deep bottom of the ocean, tormented by the memories of their brief encounter in France and her inability to know his whereabouts.
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Dalida
🇪🇬 Egypt The 1930s The 1940s The 1950s The 1960s The 1970s The 1980sBased on the true story of acclaimed music icon "Dalida" born in Cairo, who gained celebrity in the 50s, singing in French, Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, German, Italian, playing in awarded Youssef Chahine's picture "Le Sixième Jour", and who later committed suicide in 1987 in Paris, after selling more than 130 million records worldwide.
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Shepherds and Butchers
🇿🇦 South AfricaDeath Belongs To God Alone — A lawyer takes on a case of a prison guard in South Africa who is traumatized by the executions he's witnessed.
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The Pearl of Africa
🇺🇬 UgandaCaptures an intimate's struggle for the right to love. Following a Ugandan transgender girl, forced to leave her country.
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Jagga Jasoos
Africa - General The 1990sA gifted teenage detective searches for his missing father with his ladylove assistant.
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Okafor's Law
🇳🇬 NigeriaA slick serial seducer bets his friends that he can bed three old flames in six weeks, in this risqué comedy from the director of the smash hit Wives on Strike.
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Sahara
Africa - GeneralA young cobra and his scorpion best friend go on a journey across the Sahara desert to save a new-found love.
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The Nile Hilton Incident
🇪🇬 Egypt The 2010sCairo, 2011. A police officer investigates the murder of a woman in a luxurious hotel in the days leading up to the Egyptian revolution.
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See You Up There
🇲🇦 Morocco The 1910s The 1920sIn November 1918, a few days before the Armistice, when Lieutenant Pradelle orders a senseless attack, he causes a useless disaster; but his outrageous act also binds the lives of two soldiers who have nothing more in common than the battlefield: Édouard saves Albert, although at a high cost. They become companions in misfortune who will attempt to survive in a changing world. Pradelle, in his own way, does the same.
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Marry Me, Dude
🇲🇦 MoroccoYassine asks his best friend Fred to marry him in order to avoid deportation...
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Winnie
🇿🇦 South Africa The 1950s The 1960s The 1970s The 1980sWhile her husband served a life sentence, paradoxically kept safe and morally uncontaminated, Winnie Mandela rode the raw violence of apartheid, fighting on the front line and underground. This is the untold story of the mysterious forces that combined to take her down, labeling him a saint, her, a sinner.
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Bienvenue au Gondwana
Africa - GeneralAn idealistic young Frenchman immersed in controversial presidential elections, a dictator decided to stay in power by cheating, two geopolitical followers, a French deputy determined to sell asparagus to Africans, a young and pretty revolutionary: Gondwana!
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All the Money in the World
🇲🇦 Morocco The 1970s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940sJ. Paul Getty had a fortune. Everyone else paid the price. — The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom.
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Taking Earth
🇿🇦 South AfricaThe human race is thrown into chaos as an alien invasion takes control of the planet in an effort to find one boy out of 7 billion people who holds the power to destroy them.
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Kalushi : The Story of Solomon Mahlangu
🇿🇦 South AfricaThe Story of Solomon Mahlangu — Solomon Mahlangu is a Mamelodi township schoolboy-hawker who, after the events of June 16th joins the military wing of the ANC to fight against the brutal oppression of the Apartheid regime and ends up becoming an icon of South Africa's liberation.
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I Am Not a Witch
🇿🇲 ZambiaConvicted of witchcraft, 8-year-old Shula is brought to live in a penal colony where witches do hard labour in service of the government.
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Beauty and the Dogs
🇹🇳 TunisiaWhen Mariam, a young Tunisian woman, is raped by police officers after leaving a party, she is propelled into a harrowing night in which she must fight for her rights even though justice lies on the side of her tormentors.
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Wolf Warrior 2
Africa - GeneralChina's deadliest special forces operative settles into a quiet life on the sea. When sadistic mercenaries begin targeting nearby civilians, he must leave his newfound peace behind and return to his duties as a soldier and protector.
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