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Light Drops
🇲🇿 MozambiqueRui was raised in Mozambique in a small village at the frontier of a mysterious river. Son of Portuguese colonists, his best friend is Ana, a black girl godchild of his mother. At fourteen he is confronted with the tragic destruction of his childhood and has to learn to recognize two distinct realities - the European and the African.
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Desobediência
🇲🇿 MozambiqueAccused of having caused the death of her husband, she was persecuted and humiliated. Twice she proved her innocence. Even so, she was punished in a merciless fashion.
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Black Hawk Down
🇸🇴 Somalia The 1990sLeave No Man Behind. — When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord, their Black Hawk helicopters are shot down, and the Americans suffer heavy casualties, facing intense fighting from the militia on the ground.
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Nowhere in Africa
🇰🇪 Kenya The 1940s The 1930sOne family's tale of a homeland lost... and a homeland found. — A Jewish woman named Jettel Redlich flees Nazi Germany with her daughter Regina, to join her husband, Walter, on a farm in Kenya. At first, Jettel refuses to adjust to her new circumstances, bringing with her a set of china dishes and an evening gown. While Regina adapts readily to this new world, forming a strong bond with her father's cook, an African named Owuor.
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Ajnabee
🇲🇺 MauritiusNever trust a stranger. — Raj and Priya befriend their new neighbors Vicky and Sonia. One day, Raj wakes up in Vicky's house and finds out that Sonia has been murdered and he's being framed for it. On the run, he must try and prove his innocence with the support of his loving wife.
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Soarin' Over California
🇹🇿 TanzaniaFeel the wind race across your face during a breezy airborne adventure above California’s natural and manmade wonders.
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White Hotel
🇪🇷 EritreaWhen two women with a video camera follow an HIV research team to Eritrea, Africa, they find a strange and magical country which transforms their documentary into an intimate investigation of their own capacities to love, suffer and forgive.
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Makibefo
🇲🇬 MadagascarMacbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
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100 Days
🇷🇼 Rwanda The 1990sThe film centers on a pair of young lovers; Bapiste is more than ready to have sex with his girlfriend Josette, but she refuses, arguing that when they are married they can have all the sex they would like. Meanwhile, powerful Hutu leaders have had enough of Tutsi rebels and call on all Hutus to kill their Tutsi neighbors. As chaos breaks out, the Tutsis flee and the lovers are separated. Josette and her family find solace in a Catholic church run by a sadistic priest. The Catholic Church, the state, and the French army look the other way as bloodshed ensues. Josette is taken as a "wife" by the priest and repeatedly raped. When the Belgian army sent in to protect the church is called away on an emergency, the Hutus attack and massacre hundreds of women and children. Josette miraculously survives, but she is only a husk of the woman that she was. As the Tutsis regroup, they exact terrible revenge.
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I Dreamed of Africa
🇰🇪 Kenya The 1970s The 1980sSometimes the adventure of a lifetime becomes life itself. — Inspired by the true story of indomitable Kuki Gallmann, the film tells of a beautiful and inquisitive woman who had the courage to escape from her comfortable yet monotonous life in Italy to start anew in the African wilderness with her son, Emanuele, and her new husband, Paolo. Gallmann faces great danger there but eventually becomes a celebrated conservationist.
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Instinct
🇷🇼 RwandaNothing is more savage than civilization. — In a prison for the criminally insane, deranged anthropologist Ethan Powell is set to be examined by a bright young psychiatrist, Theo Caulder. Driven by ambition and a hunger for the truth, Caulder will eventually risk everything—even put his very life on the line—in a harrowing attempt to understand the bizarre actions of this madman.
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Beau Travail
🇩🇯 DjiboutiMaybe freedom begins with remorse — Foreign Legion officer Galoup recalls his once glorious life, training troops in the Gulf of Djibouti. His existence there was happy, strict and regimented, until the arrival of a promising young recruit, Sentain, plants the seeds of jealousy in Galoup's mind.
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The Loss of Sexual Innocence
🇰🇪 Kenya The 1950sThe story of the sexual development of a filmmaker through three stages of his life.
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To Walk with Lions
🇰🇪 Kenya The 1980sDrama based loosely on the final years of Kenya game warden and lion-raiser George Adamson's life. An unofficial sequel to 'Born Free' (1966) and 'Living Free' (1972), which also dramatised the life of Adamson, this film picks up the life of George (Richard Harris) on the African wildlife preserve he runs with the help of his brother Terrence (Ian Bannen). When drifter Tony Fitzjohn (John Michie) arrives to work for the old men he initially takes poorly to the task, almost savaged by a lion on his first day and on the verge of leaving when he hears that his predecessor was killed in a similar incident. The arrival of a lion cub that Fitzjohn must care for and raise changes everything. Soon he finds himself helping the brothers in their fight to save lions - and, ultimately, the park itself - from the poachers, soldiers and corrupt government officials that threaten them.
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Adwa
🇪🇹 Ethiopia The 1890sIn 1896, Ethiopia, an African nation, largely armed with spears and knives, defeats a well-equipped and organized Italian military bent on colonization.
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The Lion King II: Simba's Pride
🇺🇬 UgandaThe Circle of Life Continues... — The circle of life continues for Simba, now fully grown and in his rightful place as the king of Pride Rock. Simba and Nala have given birth to a daughter, Kiara who's as rebellious as her father was. But Kiara drives her parents to distraction when she catches the eye of Kovu, the son of the evil lioness, Zira. Will Kovu steal Kiara's heart?
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Mighty Joe Young
🇺🇬 UgandaSurvival is an instinct. — As a child living in Africa, Jill Young saw her mother killed while protecting wild gorillas from poachers led by Andrei Strasser. Now an adult, Jill cares for an orphaned gorilla named Joe -- who, due to a genetic anomaly, is 15 feet tall. When Gregg O'Hara arrives from California and sees the animal, he convinces Jill that Joe would be safest at his wildlife refuge. But Strasser follows them to the U.S., intent on capturing Joe for himself.
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Africa's Elephant Kingdom
🇰🇪 Kenya 🇹🇿 TanzaniaThis film explores an elephant clan's search for food and water as seen through the eyes of one old bull.
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Kini & Adams
🇿🇼 ZimbabweKini and Adams are two friends leaving in a Zimbabwe village who dream of repairing an old broken car, and moving to the city and starting life over.
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The Ghost and the Darkness
🇰🇪 Kenya The 1890sPrey For The Hunters — Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great until the crew discovers the mutilated corpse of the project's foreman, seemingly killed by a lion. After several more attacks, Patterson calls in famed hunter Charles Remington, who has finally met his match in the bloodthirsty lions.
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Papa Kahte Hain
🇸🇨 SeychellesSweety lives with her mom, maternal grandpa, and grandma. All she knows is that she is not permitted to talk about her father at home
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Flame
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe The 1970s The 1990sThe 1970s in the former Rhodesia, today Zimbabwe: The native people is going against the white suppressors. As the war reaches the most distant villages as well the two friends Florence and Nyasha join the fighters and assume new names: Flame and Liberty. But the war is not as easy as they thought...
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When The Stars Meet The Sea
🇲🇬 MadagascarThe film traces the destiny of Kapila, an outcast child who had been deemed by his fellow villagers to have supernatural powers of destruction, because of the timing of his solar eclipse birth.
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Everyone's Child
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe The 1990sTwo teens, Tamari and Itai, are impoverished following the death of their parents when their uncle takes their plow which they need to feed themselves. While their preoccupied neighbors in the village ignore them, Itai leaves for Harare and Tamari stays behind to care for their younger brother and sister. Finally, some of the neighbors notice and come together to support the children.
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Total Eclipse
🇪🇹 Ethiopia The 19th CenturyTouched by Genius. Cursed by Madness. Blinded by Love. — Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lifestyle.
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Africa: The Serengeti
🇰🇪 Kenya 🇹🇿 TanzaniaAfrica the Serengeti takes you on an extraordinary journey to view a spectacle few humans have ever witnessed: The Great Migration. Journey with more than two million wildebeests, zebras and antelopes as in their annual 500 mile trek across the Serengeti plains.
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The Air Up There
🇰🇪 Kenya The 1990sJimmy Dolan is a college basketball coach who wants a big promotion. To get it, he needs to make a dramatic find. He ends up deep in Africa, hoping to recruit Saleh, a huge basketball prodigy Jimmy glimpsed in a home movie. But Saleh is the chief's son and has responsibilities at home, since the tribe's land is threatened by a mining company with its own hotshot basketball team.
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The Ascent
🇰🇪 Kenya The 1940sThe real-life adventure of a dashing Italian soldier who escapes a British prisoner-of-war camp because he dreams of climbing 17,000-foot Mt. Kenya and planting the Italian flag at the summit. The obsessive British camp commander pursues him, and the two men are locked in a battle of wills, fuelled by honor and their love for the same woman.
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Imperfect Journey
🇪🇹 Ethiopia The 1990sHaile Gerima and Ryszard Kapuscinski travel around Ethiopia talking to people about their current situations and what needs to be done for a prosperous country.
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Neria
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe The 1990sA Zimbabwean widow (Jesesi Mungoshi) falls prey to her greedy brother-in-law (Dominic Kanaventi) who takes her children and belongings.
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Gito the Ungrateful
🇧🇮 BurundiBack home in Bujumbura with a Parisian diploma in his pocket and expecting to walk into a civil service job, Gito finds himself both unemployed and caught between two women: his current French girlfriend Christine and his local old flame Flora.
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Lorenzo's Oil
🇰🇲 Comoros The 1980s The 1990sSome people make their own miracles. — Lorenzo Odone was a normal child until the age of 7, until he started experiencing blackouts, memory lapses and other strange mental phenomena. Eventually diagnosed as suffering from ALD—an extremely rare and incurable degenerative brain disorders—his parents, frustrated at the failings of conventional medicine, start their quest for an unothadox treatment.
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Vishwatma
🇰🇪 KenyaTwo brave and smart young men: namely Police inspector Prabhat Singh (Sunny Deol) and a reformed criminal Akash Bhardwaj (Chunkey Pandey) is sent to the African country of Kenya in order to apprehend the underworld criminal Azghar Jhorat (Amrish Puri). He is a criminal in India but his whereabouts is known in Kenya. While in Kenya they reaches up with a stern Kenyan police officer who is of Indian origin Surya Pratap Singh (Naseeruddin Shah), it is his duty to make Prabhat and Akash abide by the Kenyan laws but to capture Azghar both is forced to break the laws and gets into confrontation with Surya where a misunderstood is created. Will Akash and Prabhat be able to fulfilled there duties towards there country or will they leave there mission half way and run like cowards?
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Mississippi Masala
🇺🇬 Uganda The 1970s The 1990sPassion. Tradition. Mix it up. — An Indian family is expelled from Uganda when Idi Amin takes power. They move to Mississippi and time passes. The Indian daughter falls in love with a black man, and the respective families have to come to terms with it.
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Mountains of the Moon
🇹🇿 Tanzania The 1850sTwo strangers made friends by a savage land. Two friends made enemies by the civilized world. — The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victoria's British Empire. The film tells the story of their meeting, their friendship emerging amidst hardship, and then dissolving after their journey.
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Jit
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe The 1990sA young African man must try every trick in the book in this attempts to win the heart of the most beautiful girl in his village.
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Cheetah
🇰🇪 KenyaAn American boy and girl, spending six months in Kenya with their scientist parents adopt a cheetah, only to realize that they must set it loose so that it can learn to hunt and be free. However, when the animal is captured by poachers planning to race it against greyhounds, the two city kids, together with a young African goat herder they befriended, head off into the wild to rescue the cheetah.
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Time to Kill
🇪🇹 Ethiopia The 1930sAn innocent man just went over the edge of reason. — 1936, Italian army is invading Ethiopia. Lieutenant Silvestri suffering toothache decides to reach the nearest camp hospital. But the lorry has an accident and stop near a rock, so Silvestri continues by walk. On his way he meets and rapes a wonderful young Ethiopian. He also wound her when he shot to a wild animal, and later kills her to avoid further pain. When he finally reaches the hospital, he realizes he gets probably leprosy. Trying to escape from Ethiopia Silvestri will kill again. But surprises aren't still over.
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Angano... Angano... Tales from Madagascar
🇲🇬 MadagascarDocumentary — Venerable storytellers recount for the camera and their listeners the founding myths of Malagasy culture.
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Gorillas in the Mist
🇷🇼 Rwanda The 1960s The 1970s The 1980sAt the far ends of the earth she found a reason to live, and a cause to fight for. — The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.
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Itinerary of a Spoiled Child
🇿🇼 ZimbabweA foundling, raised in the circus, Sam Lion becomes a businessman after a trapeze accident. However, when he reaches fifty and becomes tired of his responsibilities and of his son Jean-Philippe, he decides to disappear at sea. However, he runs into Albert Duvivier, one of his former employees. He comes to realise that he has ignored the important things in his life.
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Nukie
🇰🇪 KenyaA Magical Space Adventure — Two alien brothers crash their ship in the U.S. They get separated, and one searches the country for the other one.
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The Kitchen Toto
🇰🇪 Kenya The 1950sThe son of a priest slain by the Mau Mau moves in with a police officer and his wife in 1950 Kenya.
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White Mischief
🇰🇪 Kenya The 1940sIn a world of wife swapping, drugs and chocolate covered lobsters, murder seemed so uncivilised. — A millionaire past his prime and his young wife arrive in Kenya circa 1940 to find that the other affluent British expatriates are living large as the homefront gears up for war. They are busy swapping partners, doing drugs, and attending lavish parties and horse races. She begins a torrid affair with one of the bon vivants, and her husband finds out and confronts them. The husband and wife decide to break up peacefully, but the bon vivant is murdered and all the evidence points to the husband.
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The Happy Valley
🇰🇪 Kenya The 1940sIn 1940 Kenya as their country prepares for war, the local aristocratic social set lives a decadent, self-indulgent lifestyle, that leads to murder. The same events were also dramatised in the feature film White Mischief, which was released seven months after the first transmission of The Happy Valley.
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The Mines of Kilimanjaro
🇰🇪 Kenya The 1910s The 1920sA World War II-era college student must journey to Africa both to find his missing archaeology professor and search for the treasured mines of Kilimanjaro. He is followed by natives as well as scheming Chinese and Nazis
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In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro
🇰🇪 Kenya The 1980sViolent death was the easy way out! — There's a big drought in Africa. Food and water are scarce. 90,000 wild baboons suddenly start attacking humans and eating them in order to survive. Some people find themselves being hunted by the starving monkeys and must do whatever they can to stay alive.
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