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Guimba the Tyrant
Acclaimed at home and at the Cannes, Toronto and New York Film Festivals
as the African film event of the year, Guimba weaves a captivating
tale of sexual power plays, set against the grand sweep of a precolonial
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Fela Kuti: "Music is the Weapon"
Shot in Lagos at the peak of his career in 1982, this documentary contains interviews with Fela detailing his thoughts on politics, Pan-Africanism, music and religion. For all who wish to know more about an artist at the heart of African musical history, FELA KUTI: MUSIC IS THE WEAPON is an essential film. |
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Karmen Geï
Bizet's celebrated opera Carmen receives a spectacularly bold reworking in Joseph Gaï Ramaka's KARMEN GEÏ |
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Daresalam
Two childhood friends swept up in civil wars in Chad and Burkina Faso. Tranquil, violent, intimate and objective, DARESALAM is a powerful film of resonant depth that "brilliantly weaves memory, hope and despair" (San Francisco Weekly) into "a poignant essay on civil war" (LA Weekly). |
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Genesis
A visual retelling of the biblical story of the house of Abraham from an African perspective, the film portrays the bitter rivalry between brothers Jacob and Esau which threatens to engulf both clans in a never-ending cycle of violence. |
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Yeelen
From one of the master African film directors, the story of Nianankoro, a young African warrior destined to destroy a corrupt older society, the secret Komo cult, and with it his father and inevitably himself. |
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La Vie Est Belle
A poor rural musician goes to the city to succeed in the vibrant music scene of Kinshasha, Zaire's exhilarating and exasperating capital of four million. |
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Hyenas
A woman returns to the village from which she was banished 30 years before, unmarried and pregnant . . . now a millionairess and seeking revenge on the man who betrayed her. |
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Nollywood Babylon
This documentary chronicles the wild world of "Nollywood," a term coined in the early '90s to describe the world’s fastest-growing national cinema based in Lagos, surpassed only by Bollywood in volume. Peppered with outrageously juicy movie clips and buoyed by a rousing score fusing Afropop and traditional sounds, this film celebrates the distinctive voice of Nigerian cinema. |
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