53 Films & TV Shows Set In Africa During The 2010s
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Clash
๐ช๐ฌ Egypt The 2010sConflict is on the inside โ In 2013, in Cairo, a tragic fate brings together several detainees from different political and social backgrounds inside a police truck, during the turmoil that followed the ousting of president Morsi.
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93 Days
๐ณ๐ฌ Nigeria The 2010swhat happens when the most lethal and contagious disease known to man arrives in a mega city of over 20 million people? โ Bimbo Akintola, Danny Glover and TIFF Rising Star Somkele Iyamah-Idhalama star in director Steve Gukasโ riveting real-life thriller about courageous health-care workers in Lagos battling the Ebola outbreak of 2014.
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Avengers: Age of Ultron
New York England ๐ณ๐ด Norway ๐ฐ๐ท South Korea ๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 2010sA New Age Has Come. โ When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and Earthโs Mightiest Heroes are put to the ultimate test as the fate of the planet hangs in the balance. As the villainous Ultron emerges, it is up to The Avengers to stop him from enacting his terrible plans, and soon uneasy alliances and unexpected action pave the way for an epic and unique global adventure.
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Spectre
Ciudad de Mรฉxico England ๐ป๐ฆ Holy See ๐ฆ๐น Austria ๐ฎ๐น Italy Tokyo Prefecture ๐ช๐ญ Western Sahara ๐ฒ๐ฆ Morocco Africa - General The 2010sA Plan No One Escapes โ A cryptic message from Bondโs past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE.
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Eye in the Sky
Nevada Hawaii England Beijing ๐ธ๐ฌ Singapore ๐ฐ๐ช Kenya The 2010sWelcome to the new front line โ A UK-based military officer in command of a top secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya discovers the targets are planning a suicide bombing and the mission escalates from โcaptureโ to โkill.โ As American pilot Steve Watts is about to engage, a nine-year old girl enters the kill zone, triggering an international dispute reaching the highest levels of US and British government over the moral, political, and personal implications of modern warfare.
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The Lion Standing in the Wind
๐ฐ๐ช Kenya Nagasaki Prefecture Miyagi Prefecture The 1970s The 1980s The 2010sKoichiro Shimada is sent to a research facility in Kenya, Africa by a teaching hospital in Japan. He encounters a desperate situation and decides to work there as a doctor, treating patients hurt in battles. He struggles with nurses and colleagues at the hospital. Koichiro Shimada then encounters a boy soldier severely wounded mentally. This changes Koichiro Shimadaโs fate.
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Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
New York England ๐ช๐ฌ Egypt The 1930s The 2010sOne Final Night to Save the Day. โ When the magic powers of The Tablet of Ahkmenrah begin to die out, Larry Daley spans the globe, uniting favorite and new characters while embarking on an epic quest to save the magic before it is gone forever.
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Difret
๐ช๐น Ethiopia The 2010sThree hours outside of Addis Ababa, a bright 14-year-old girl is on her way home from school when men on horses swoop in and kidnap her. The brave Hirut grabs a rifle and tries to escape, but ends up shooting her would-be husband. In her village the practice of abduction into marriage is common and one of Ethiopiaโs oldest traditions. Meaza Ashenafi, an empowered and tenacious young lawyer, arrives from the city to represent Hirut and argue that she acted in self defense. Meaza boldly embarks on a collision course between enforcing civil authority and abiding by customary law, risking the ongoing work of her womenโs legal aid practice to save Hirutโs life.
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E-Team
๐ฑ๐พ Libya ๐ธ๐พ Syria The 2010sE-Team is driven by the high-stakes investigative work of four intrepid human rights workers, offering a rare look at their lives at home and their dramatic work in the field.
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We Come as Friends
๐ธ๐ฉ Sudan ๐ธ๐ธ South Sudan The 2010sAs war-ravaged South Sudan claims independence from North Sudan and its brutal President, Omar al-Bashir, a tiny, homemade prop plane wings in from France. It is piloted by eagle-eyed documentarian Hubert Sauper, who is mining for stories in a land trapped in the past but careening toward an apocalyptic future.
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Timbuktu
๐ฒ๐ฑ Mali The 2010sA song for freedom โ 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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Dirty Wars
๐ฆ๐ซ Afghanistan ๐ธ๐ด Somalia ๐พ๐ช Yemen The 2010sA secret army. A war without end. A journalist determined to uncover the truth. โ Investigative journalist, Jeremy Scahill is pulled into an unexpected journey as he chases down the hidden truth behind America's expanding covert wars, and examines how the US government has responded to international terrorist threats in ways that seem to go against the established laws of the land.
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The Square
๐ช๐ฌ Egypt The 2010sThe people demand the downfall of the regime โ The Square looks at the hard realities faced day-to-day by people working to build Egyptโs new democracy. Cairoโs Tahrir Square is the heart and soul of the film, which follows several young activists. Armed with values, determination, music, humor, an abundance of social media, and sheer obstinacy, they know that the thorny path to democracy only began with Hosni Mubarekโs fall. The life-and-death struggle between the people and the power of the state is still playing out.
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African Safari
๐ง๐ผ Botswana ๐ณ๐ฆ Namibia ๐น๐ฟ Tanzania ๐ฟ๐ฒ Zambia ๐ฟ๐ผ Zimbabwe The 2010sA documentary that leads the audience from Namibia to Kilimanjaro to explore the African wildlife.
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After the Battle
๐ช๐ฌ Egypt The 2010sOnce a member of one of the notorious armed groups that were coerced by the Egyptian Government to carry out violent attacks on protestors in Tahir Square on February 2nd 2011, Mahmoud has since lost his job, been subjected to beatings and humiliating treatment, and been ostracized by his own community that live close to the Pyramids. Mahmoud is close to despair when he meets Reem, a divorcee and modern-thinker who works in advertising. Reem is a fervent ecologist who first comes to Mahmoudโs rundown neighbourhood to care for the camels and horses that have been left to fend for themselves. Their encounter develops into a love story that will radically change the course of their lives forever.
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Angus Buchan's Ordinary People
๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 2010sThe plot follows the individual journeys of three ordinary South African men in the build up to their attendance of the 2010 Mighty Men Conference, where their lives are forever changed by God's message for them.
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Tahrir: Liberation Square
๐ช๐ฌ Egypt The 2010sFrom Facebook thumbs up to the battle of stones, a history of hope, fear, despair, anger, pride and elation, the film is the real-time chronicle of the two most exciting weeks in the history of modern Egypt as lived by their protagonists. Since the 25th of January 2011, together with thousands of other Egyptian citizens, No ha, Ahmed and Essayed have been involved in a massive movement of street protest for political freedom. Day after day, sleepless night after sleepless night, until the capitulation of the defeated pharaoh, the film follows these young and unexpected heroes along their shattering fight to conquer their freedom.
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Maami
๐ณ๐ฌ 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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Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Illinois District of Columbia ๐บ๐ฆ Ukraine ๐ญ๐ฐ Hong Kong ๐ฐ๐ญ Cambodia Africa - General The 1960s The 2010sThe invasion we always feared. An enemy we never expected. โ The Autobots continue to work for NEST, now no longer in secret. But after discovering a strange artifact during a mission in Chernobyl, it becomes apparent to Optimus Prime that the United States government has been less than forthright with them.
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Hanna
๐ซ๐ฎ Finland ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฒ๐ฆ Morocco ๐ช๐ธ Spain The 2010sAdapt or die. โ Raised by her father, an ex-CIA agent, in the wilds of Finland, Hanna's upbringing has been geared to making her the perfect assassin. Sent into the world by her father on a mission, Hanna journeys across Europe, eluding agents dispatched after her by a ruthless intelligence operative. As she nears her ultimate target, Hanna faces startling revelations about her existence.
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Johnny English Reborn
England ๐ฒ๐ฟ Mozambique The 2010sA little intelligence goes a long way โ The most prominent heads of state in the world begin gathering for a conference that could have a major impact on global politics. When MI-7 receives word that the Chinese premier has become the target of some high-powered killers, it falls on Johnny English to save the day. Armed with the latest high-tech weaponry and gadgets that would make even James Bond jealous, the once-disgraced agent uncovers evidence of a massive conspiracy involving some of the world's most powerful organisations, and vows to redeem his tarnished reputation by stopping the killers before they can strike.
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Neither Allah, Nor Master!
๐น๐ณ Tunisia The 2010sFilmmaker Nadia el Fani explores secularism in the predominantly Muslim country of Tunisia before and after the fall of Ben Ali.
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Marfil
๐ฌ๐ถ Equatorial Guinea The 2010sThe first filmmaker arrived in Equatorial Guinea in 1904. The last movie theatre closed in Malabo in the 1990s. In 2011, during the II African Film Festival of Equatorial Guinea, the Marfil Movie Theatre reopened its doors. Florencio, รngel and Estrada tells us how cinema has been, and is still, present in their lives.
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Inception
New South Wales California ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฏ๐ต Japan ๐ฐ๐ช Kenya The 2010sYour mind is the scene of the crime. โ Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.
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Life, Above All
๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa The 2010sA touching mother-daughter relationship that reflects the modern South Africa.
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