James Baldwin
Presents a look at author James Baldwin's life as reflected in his own words and reminiscences of family and friends. Opening with Baldwin's funeral, this film traces the life history and accomplishments of this great Af..
Keita: The Heritage of the Griot
Based on an important work of African oral literature, the Sundjata epic. When a djéliba, a master griot or bard, arrives mysteriously at the home of Mabo Keïta to teach him "the meaning of his name," the boy and griot..
La vie est belle = life is rosy
La vie est belle tells the rags to riches story of a poor rural musican who realizes that to succeed in today's music world he must go to the city and break into radio and television. Set in Zaire.
Le Grand blanc de Lambarene = The great white man of Lambarene
Cameroonian filmmaker Bassek ba Kobhio provides a fascinating revisionist perspective on Albert Schweitzer, Noble Peace Prize winner and secular saint of the colonial era. Like Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask, this..
Le Malentendu Colonial
Le Malentendu Colonial looks at European colonialism in Africa through the lens of Christian evangelism, indeed as the model for the relationship between North and South even today. The film scrutinizes in particular the..
Liberia: A Fragile Peace
With the departure of the despotic Charles Taylor in 2003, the deployment of UN peacekeeping forces, and the election of Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf in 2005, Liberia was ready to begin the arduous task of creating a viable eco..
Liberia: An Uncivil War
Reporter Jonathan Stack is besieged in the Liberian capital of Monrovia, where president Charles Taylor has just been indicted on 17 counts of crimes against humanity by the United Nations. James Barbazon is traveling wi..
Long night's journey into day
Follows four cases over a two-year period that were brought before South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission which investigates the crimes of apartheid, by bringing together victims and perpetrators to relive So..
Lumumba : la mort du prophete = Lumumba : death of a prophet
This film recounts Lumumba's 200 day rule culminating with his assassination. It reveals how a weakened democratic movement succumbed to the only well-financed and organized force in the country - the military. It reexa..
Made in LA
Made in L.A. traces the moving transformation of three Latina garment workers on the fault lines of global economic change who decide they must resist. Through a groundbreaking law suit and consumer boycott, they fight t..