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Director: Sergio Giral
From: Cuba
Year: 1979 Minutes: 95
Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Genre: Historical Drama
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Maluala takes us into a palenque, a settlement of escaped slaves hidden somewhere in Cuba's eastern mountains, where discord is sown between black "kings" by clever subversives working for the Spanish government.
"Sergio Giral is the best known of the Black Cuban directors and his previous films were historical observations of the period of slavery in Cuba, the gradual rise of rebellion against colonial traditions, and the ultimate freedom that resulted. Maluala is the most striking addition to this genre. The action takes place during the last century in the region of Maluala. Gallo, the black chieftain, together with his cohort, Coba, present a petition for land and liberty to the colonial government. Governor Escudero offers liberty if the rebellious villages will be dismantled and their men offer themselves in surrender. He promises that they will be freed shortly thereafter. Three chieftains agree, but Gallo and Coba refuse…. Giral has mounted Maluala with colorful ritual and acting. Samuel Claxton, as Gallo, is highly stylized in the heroic tradition. It is an absorbing adventure film wrought from historical events which appear violent, but Giral constantly implants into every image the necessity for unity among people in order to combat man's seemingly casual desire to subjugate mankind, in the struggle for power and undefined ambition." ~ San Francisco Film Festival, 1980
“The historically lucid intrigues of Maluala (1979), where the Afrocentric leadership of fugitive palenque communities is pitted against each other COINTELPRO-style by Spanish colonists, is one of those Cuban films that were forged in a righteous, red-hot ferment but still found the courage and wit to ask questions about the society around them.”
~ Gary Dauphin, The Village Voice
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Director: Paul Gachot
From: Brazil/Switzerland
Year: 2005 Minutes: 82
Language: Portuguese with English subtitles
Genre: Musical Documentary |
In his captivating film, Georges Gachot invites us to enter the universe of Maria Bethania, the famous Brazilian singer. Narrated by Bethania herself, the film not only gives us an insight into the intimate sphere of Maria Bethania's creative process, but focuses on the history of Brazilian music. First a muse of the so-called counter culture, and then the queen of romantic ballads, Maria Bethania chronicles her musical life experience in relation to Brazilian society's development. In addition to this, filmmaker Gachot gathers together a fantastic ensemble of contributors including Gilberto Gil, Nana Caymmi, Miucha, Chico Buarque and Caetano Veloso, all of them witnesses and participants to some of the greatest music history of our time. |
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Director: Pascal Plisson
From: France/Kenya
Year: 2005 Minutes: 94
Language: Masai with English subtitles
Genre: Drama
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Faced with a drought that endangers the continuity of their people, Masai elders are convinced that they have been cursed by the Red God -- the God of Vengeance. Following the death of the war chief, a group of adolescents must now cross over to adulthood, forced to quickly form a new generation of inexperienced but brave warriors. The adolescents must bring back the mane of a legendary lion, which appears at every critical period of the Masai history to appease the wrath of the God and bring back the rains. The survival of their culture depends on this quest.
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Director: Mario Handler
From: Venezuela
Year: 1989 Minutes: 82
Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Genre: drama
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The action takes place in a village on the Venezuelan coast, a place of fishermen and big haciendas. Jose Ramon, son of a white aristocrat and a humble black fisher-women, is trying to define his own identity while dealing with social and sexual conflicts, power, culture, the law, and the impossible relationship he has with both his parents.
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Director: Dominique Loreau
From: Belgium
Year: 1994 Minutes: 76
Language: French with English subtitles
Genre: docu-drama
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| In this film, whose title is a Senegalese proverb, a griot (story teller) traveling from Dakar to Brussels weaves a tale about African expatriates and offers a candid look at the life of African immigrants in Belgium. With Sotigui Kouyate - a real life griot - as the story teller. |
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Director: Paulo Cezar Saraceni
From: Brazil
Year: 1988 Minutes: 100
Language: Portuguese w/ English Subtitles
Genre: drama
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The name ‘Natal da Portela’ is historically attached to the cultural identity of Brazil. Natal da Portela created the first escola de samba in Rio de Janeiro. The schools of samba are the soul of carnival in Brazil and major reservoirs of Afro-Brazilian culture. The film depicts the life of Natal da Portela as a young man from the favelas--the slums of the northern part of Rio de Janeiro--up to the creation of “la Portela”, the school of samba he created. The principal role played by Milton Goncalves, one of the major Black actors in Brazil, gives the story an authentic flavor rarely seen in films portraying the contemporary life of Black people in Brazil. This is a film filled with joy, music and laughter. “Natal da Portela” is also a film that narrates the story of contemporary Brazil and the legacy of African people in that country. Several other major actors enrich the story, Zeze Mota well known for her role in “Quilombo” and the dean of Black Brazilian actors, the great Grande Otello much remembered for his major role in Rio Zona Norte and Macunaima just to mention a few titles.
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Director: Solveig Nordlund
From: Sweden
Year: 1997 Minutes: 92
Language: Portuguese/Mozambican with English subtitles
Genre: drama
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Shot in Mozambique, but set in an unnamed city, the film depicts the life of an orphan boy, Nelio, whose parents were killed by guerrillas. He escapes to the city and finds magic there and is soon rumoured to possess healing powers, in this violent, yet mythic coming-of-age story. Based on a novel by the popular Swedish writer Henning Mankell.
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Director: Abdelkrim Bahloul
From: France and Algeria
Year: 1997 Minutes: 96
Language: French with English subtitles
Genre: thriller
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Sixty five years old Abdelkader Silimani, an Algerian Muslin living in France, after inadvertently witnessing a murder, closely escapes from the murderers by hiding out into a mosque. The black leather dressed masked murderers, with their firearms in hand, do not hesitate to enter the mosque full of praying men looking for the eyewitness. They leave empty handed but determined not to give up their search.
Detective Leclerc is assigned to the case. As he searches for the eyewitness who stays mute with fear, the detective slowly discovers the Northern Paris Muslim community and its traditions. For the first time, the French detective is exposed to the contradictions and challenges minority communities face as they struggle to live in a new culture with a different set of values and religious beliefs.
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Director: Merzak Allouache
From: France/Algeria
Year: 2001 Minutes: 90
Language: Arabic and French with English subtitles
Genre: Romantic Drama
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Yasmine and Rachid, two young Parisians children of Algerian immigrants, are in love and live a quiet life in France. One day, Rachid disappears and Yasmine learns that he is in Algeria. She decides to follow him, in that country that she does not know, that is filled with violence. As she travels looking for Rachid, she falls deeper into the horror of a country where nothing seems normal, another world, where death is ever present. She learns that Rachid was in a military convoy that was attacked by terrorists. Only two soldiers in the convoy survived. She can't believe Rachid is not one of them...
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Director: Frieder Schlaich
From: Germany
Year: 1999 Minutes: 84
Language: German with English subtitles
Genre: drama
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A powerful film portraying institutionalized racism and police brutality, Otomo provides a convincing look at the everyday world of refugees, who are continuously surrounded by tension and insecurity. In the summer of 1989, a Stuttgart newspaper reported the true story of a West African asylum seeker who physically assaulted an intolerant subway ticket-taker; fled, and became the target of a city-wide manhunt. Otomo is a sober, fictionalized reconstruction of a tale that shocked Stuttgart, and a gripping portrait of how institutionalized racism drives a disempowered individual to violence and inhumanity.
West African immigrant Frederic Otomo (Isaach de Bankole) lacks the proper papers to be hired for the most menial of jobs; he has survived for eight years with the help of a Catholic charity. Otomo is the target of verbal abuse, is thrown out of his boarding house, and even scorned by neighborhood dogs. He feels and looks out of place. A stoic bubbling pot of wrath on the run, de Bankole's performance establishes Otomo's essence without words-language cannot express the gravity of his situation. As a ticking soundtrack counts down his fated minutes, Otomo is helped by a kind, aging hippie and her granddaughter, establishing the potential for an inclusive German society….if it is not too late...
Read a review: upcomingmovies.com
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Best Actress, Valenciennes Film Festival 2000
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Director: Sander Francken
From: Netherland/Curacao
Year: 1999 Minutes: 95
Language: Dutch and Papamiento with English subtitles
Genre: romantic thriller
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Papa's song is a drama of domestic tension and cross-cultural misunderstanding. Nico Verema (Rene van Asten), a decorous, somewhat gloomy Dutch magistrate, lives happily with his wife, Shirley (Roman Vrede), who is from Curacao. Shirley's two young nephews, in the Netherlands to escape a bad situation at home, complete the household.
Its atmosphere of calm bourgeois propriety is soon upended by the arrival of the boys' mother, Magda (Lisette Merenciana). Shirley and Magda relationship is very stormy: they careen from screaming recrimination to tearful tenderness. Nico tries to mediate and soothe, but when Shirley, who cannot bear children, demands that he impregnate her sister, the good judge finds himself entangled in an intergenerational, trans-Atlantic web of family dysfunction.
"Papa's Song" touches on a number of fascinating and difficult themes, including the state of race relations in the contemporary Netherlands. A. O. Scott, NY Times.
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Director: Sergio Giral
From: Cuba
Year: 1986 Minutes: 96
Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Genre: drama
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Placido portraits the dramatic story of Gabriel de la Concepcio Valdes (Placido), a mulatto Cuban poet accused of leading a conspiracy against the Spanish colonial government. Preoccupied by the development of Afro-Hispanic artist and craftsmen of the mid XIX century, Placido was executed after living a short and controversial life as a man between two races and between a cruel reality and a dream of freedom.
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Director: Horace Ove
From: Trinidad-Tobago/UK
Year: 1986 Minutes: 100
Language: English
Genre: comedy
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| To mark the conclusion of their "Third World Week" celebration, a cricket team in a small English village invites a West Indian cricket team from South London to a charity game.
Not surprisingly, there's wariness on both sides. But Willie Boy (Norman Beaton), the proud, wryly philosophical captain of the Conquistadors, is intent on accepting the invitation. Meanwhile, the captain of the Sneddington Cricket Club, the innocent but overweeningly self-satisfied Derek (Nicholas Farell), is confident of a handy Sunday afternoon victory.
Obviously, the possibilities, both comic and serious, in this cultural exchange are endless, and the filmmakers seem not to have missed any of them. But, for all the film's abundant humor, Ove, said to be Britain's first black film maker, and the Oxford-educated Phillips, never let us forget that racial tensions lurk beneath the occasion's sure of good will. In the end, Playing Aways pleasures are subtle and genuine. - Los Angeles Times
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Director: Ahmed Hassouna
From: Egypt
Year: 2002 Minutes: 14
Language: Arabic with English subtitles
Genre: surrealist comedy
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Sami and his wife Sarah are packing to move to the USA where they intend to open a restaurant. Rania, Sarah's sister, goes to their house to take them to the airport, but some unexpected and unforeseeable events take place in the apartment: games of seduction, murder and dead bodies to be disposed of. A surrealist comedy by Ahmed Hassouna who belongs to a new group of young promising Egyptian filmmakers.
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Director: Alessandra Muller
From: Cuba/Switzerland
Year: 2005 Minutes: 76
Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Genre: Documentary
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Sara Gomez: An Afro-Cuban Filmmaker is a rich, multilayered documentary about Afro-Cuban director Sarah Gomez. Born in 1943, she studied literature, piano, and Afro-Cuban ethnography before becoming the first female Cuban filmmaker. A woman of great intelligence, independence and generosity, she was a revolutionary filmmaker with intersecting concerns about the Afro-Cuban community and the value of its cultural traditions, women's issues, and the treatment of the marginalized sectors of society. Through archival footage of her works and interviews with her children and husband Germinal Hernandez, cast members of her best-know film De cierta manera,as well as colleagues and friends, we get closer to a filmmaker who invented new landscapes and brought together opposite worlds.
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Director: Dani Kouyate
From: Burkina Faso/France
Year: 2001 Minutes: 96
Language: Bambara with English subtitles
Genre: Epic Drama
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Kombi is a poverty-stricken city dominated by a tyrant king. In order to bring back prosperity, the king is advised by his priests to make the traditional human sacrifice of a young virgin to a mystical snake god. Sia, the most beautiful young woman of the village, has been designated. Lieutenant Mamadi, her fiancé, rebels against the decision to perform this ritual and the village becomes divided. Struggles and revelations follow as the characters confront issues of honour, corruption and power.
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DVD entitled GREAT AFRICAN FILMS - VOL 2- also includes
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Director: Nelson George
From: USA
Year: 2005 Minutes: 60
Language: English
Genre: Documentry
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Nelson George, one of the leading critics of black American culture -- during the last two decades, he's published more than a dozen books on the history of R&B, basketball and hip-hop and has also collaborated on film projects with Spike Lee, Chris Rock and Halle Berry -- brings us his latest documentary, Smart Black People, which features personalities who left their stamp on America in the 1980s, including Greg Tate, Michele Wallace, Russell Simmons, and is based on George's latest book, Post-Soul Nation.
"An hour long documentary I produced and directed, Smart Black People is a record of two panel discussions I sponsored a few years back in support of my book Post-Soul Nation. For anyone interested in black pop culture in the go-go '80s this will be both insightful and fun. Reggie Hudlin, Greg Tate, Barry Michael Cooper, Michelle Wallace, Lynell George, Kool Moe Dee and Russell Simmons are among the old heads kicking the ballistics in Harlem and Beverly Hills." ~ Nelson George
Bonus with DVD: One on one interviews with several panel members (Greg Tate, Barry Michael Cooper, Michele Wallace and Nelson George) and An essay by Nelson George on the era.
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Director: Sons of Benkos
From: Colombia/France
Year: 2003 Minutes: 52
Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Genre: Documentary
Director: Silva Lucas
Official selection, African Diaspora
Film Festival 2006.
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An entertaining documentary that explores the African culture of Colombia through music. The film presents the music of the Sons of Benkos, one of the most important Black leaders in the fight for freedom during the times of slavery in Colombia. The film also shows the evolution of Afro-Colombian music over time through the fusion of Cuban and contemporary African rhythms with traditional Afro-Colombian music.
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Sotigui Kouyate:
A Modern Griot
Director:Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
From:Chad/France
Year:1996 Minutes:58
Language:French with English subtitles
Genre: Documentary
Through testimonies by Peter Brook, Jean-Claude Carriere, Jean-Pierre Guigane, and Sotigui Kouyate himself, Sotigui Kouyate: a Modern Griot dresses the portrait of one of Africa’s greatest actor now based in Paris. From Africa to Europe, the film unveils the multiple facets of Sotigui Kouyate, actor, musician and modern griot.
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Director: Zozimo Bulbul
From: Brazil
Year: 1974 Minutes: 8
Language: silent
Genre: drama
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This short film on the legacy of culture and survival bestowed by enslaved Africans brought to the Americas features the music of John Coltrane.
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Director: Nawfel Saheb-Ettaba
From: Tunisia
Year: 1999 Minutes: 52
Language: Arabic/French with English subtitles
Genre: documentary
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Stambali is an annual tribute that the disciples of Sidi Saad pay to their master during an initiatory journey and rite of purification that lasts three days. This Tunisian religious ritual, brought into the country by sub-Saharan Africans, is a healing ceremony led by musicians who are also healers as they enter into a trance to the mesmerizing rhythm of the "gombri" and "chkachek," and incarnate a deity that takes possession of their body. In Stambali, the camera follows the rhythm of the possessions and dances of the healing ceremony as it develops into an individual and collective hypnosis and takes the audience into the trance of the eroticism that is released by this physical and spiritual representation.
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Director: Mark Dixon
From: Peru/Belgium
Year: 2003 Minutes: 54
Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Genre: Musical documentary
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Susana Baca is not only a champion in the performance and preservation of Afro-Peruvian heritage, but also an elegant singer whose shimmering voice sings of love, loss and life. Susana and her husband Ricardo Pereira have founded the Instituto Negrocontinuo “Black Continuum” in Lima, a spirited facility for the exploration, expression, and creation of Black Peruvian culture. While Baca has dedicated herself to researching and performing virtually all forms of Afro-Peruvian folklore, it is the lando that has become her trademark. This slow to mid-tempo, highly evocative mix of Spanish, Indigenous and African rhythms has become what the son is to Cuba, or the samba to Brazil--the lando is the sound of Black Peru.
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Director: Daniel Kollo Sanou
From: Burkina Faso
Year: 2003 Minutes: 90
Language: French/Moore with English subtitlessubtitles
Genre: Comedy
Award: Bronze Stallion of Yenenga award – FESPACO 2005
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Sogo Sanou, a.k.a. Tasuma, is a former French soldier, a part of the African troops better known as “tiralleurs senegalais” who fought in the French wars in Europe and its colonial territories. He was a soldier in the wars of Indochina and Algeria. Although an honored veteran, Tasuma spends decades painfully waiting for his small pension, an amount that in his native Burkina Faso represents a fortune even though it will equal only a small fraction of the amount paid to his French counterparts.
In a scene that takes us back to another African classic, THE MONEY ORDER by Ousmane Sembene, Tasuma impulsively buys a treadmill for the women in his village with the money expected from his future pension payment, although he doesn’t know exactly when it will come through. The money does not arrive and our hero is in trouble and out of patience. With his old rifle he walks into the pension plan administrator’s office and demands his money. He ends up in jail and it is up to the women of the village to come down to the city to free Tasuma. TASUMA, THE FIGHTER, is a portrait of a bureaucratic adventure that, even 60 years after World War II and 44 years after the independence movement in Africa, is not yet solved.
As Kollo Daniel Sanou, the director of Tasuma, points out: “The story of Tasuma is also the narration of a historic mismatch, that of the particular status of those former combatants of the African troupes in the French Army”.
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Director: Jo Sol
From: Spain/India
Year: 2000 Minutes: 90
Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Genre: a radical love story
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TATTOO BAR is a bar/tattooing saloon placed in the old quarter of Barcelona. It is a meeting point for the most different and colorful characters. Through the window shop of Tatawo, Simona shows her tattooed body with movements based on oriental dances. Her skin shows the best moments of her life in India with Francis, the man who tattooed her. Even though Francis has left Simona, she is still in love with him. Mariel, the owner of the Tattoo Bar and a close friend of Francis, feels a deep and secret wish of reaching Simona's love. Mariel would do everything for her. He would be capable of stealing the money that she needs to erase the tattoos that Francis drew and that cover her body. Then she would be able to start a new life.
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Director: Balufu Bakupa Kanyinda
From: Democratic Republic of Congo
Year: 1991 Minutes: 26
Language: French w/ English subtitles
Genre: documentary
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Captain Thomas Sankara was the leader of the Burkinabe Revolution. In the former Upper Volta known today as Burkina Faso, a group of men decided to launch a revolution that would enable the country "to accept the responsibility of its reality and its destiny with human dignity". Thomas Sankara belongs to the group of African leaders who wanted to give the continent in general and their countries in particular a new socio-political dimension.
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Director: Menelik Shabazz
From: UK
Year: 1988 Minutes: 84
Language: English
Genre: English
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| Time and Judgement is an overview of the African Liberation Movement that spans a period of 400 hundred years. The film narrates the tribulations and successes of people of African descent in and out of Africa with a special focus on the struggles of the last century. Through extensive footage of the movement in the Caribbean, Africa, America and Europe, the viewer is exposed to the critical political analysis of leaders such as: Maurice Bishop of Grenada, Walter Rodney of Guyana, Jessie Jackson, Kwame Ture (Stokley Carmichael) and Louis Farrakhan of the USA, Samora Machel of Mozambique, Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, Bob Marley and Marcus Garvey of Jamaica, and more.
Through the creative use of various art forms including theater, poetry, songs and art, Time and Judgement establishes a connection between a biblical prophecy with the times we are living in, leading toward the final confrontation between the heart and money - the heart symbolizing love and life, and money symbolizing greed and lust for power. |
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Director: Rolph de Heer
From: Australia
Year: 2002 Minutes: 98
Language: English
Genre: Epic Drama
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The year is 1922. The Tracker (David Gulpilil, Walkabout, Rabbit-Proof Fence) has the job of pursuing The Fugitive, an aborigine who is suspected of murdering a white woman, as he leads three mounted policemen: The Fanatic, The Follower and also The Veteran across the outback. The Tracker, a mysterious and enigmatic figure whose true character remains unknown, assists them in their quest. As they move deeper into the bush and further away from civilization, the toxic forces of paranoia and violence begin to escalate, stirring up questions of what is black and what is white and who is leading whom. Their journey becomes an acrimonious and murderous trek that shifts power from one man to another, challenged by the indigenous people they come across as well as each other.
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Director: Octavio Cortazar
From: Martinique/Cuba
Year: 1992 Minutes: 52
Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Genre: docu-drama
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A fascinating film on the rhythmic dance genre known as Rumba, La Ultima Rumba de Papa Montero dances around the life of Papa Montero, one of the famous rumberos of Cuba, assassinated during carnival. A discovery of Cuban traditions and every day life told through beautiful images, sensual music and dance. The use of Afro-Cuban mythology is the force behind the characters as orishas guide the characters' fate.
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Director: Mohammed Soudani
From: Senegal / Switzerland
Year: 1998 Minutes: 65
Language: Wolof with English subtitles
Genre: drama
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Milan, like Paris or Stuttgart, and like many other European cities, is the theater of the drama of immigration. Demba reconstructs his story and that of his brother Yaro, both Senegalese immigrants in Italy, in a long and fragmentary flashback that begins with Yaro’s murder and recounts their departure from the village, arrival in Europe, the work they find selling lighters and picking tomatoes in the south of Italy: the stages every “non-EEC citizen” goes through in Italy. It is a story of immigration like so many others but that most people are unaware of. Waalo Fendo illustrates the dehumanization faced by so many immigrants all over the world.
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Director: Anthony Metchie
From: Canada
Year: 1995 Minutes: 92
Language: English
Genre: drama
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A psychological drama about the outcome of choices we make in life. This film is a positive message to all those who have faced difficulties in life and to the people who are affected by their decisions to cope with it.
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Youssou
N'Dour:
Return to Goree
Director: Pierre-Yves Borgeaud
From: Senegal/Switzerland/ Luxembourg
Year: 2006
Minutes:108
Language:English and French with English subtitles
Genre: Musical Documentary
Format: 35mm
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A musical road movie, Youssou N'Dour:
Return to Gorée follows Senegalese singer
Youssou N'Dour's historical journey tracing the trail
left by slaves and the jazz music they created. Youssou
N'Dour's challenge is to bring back to Africa a jazz repertoire
of his own songs to perform a concert in Gorée,
the island that today symbolizes the slave trade and stands
to honor its victims.
From Atlanta to New Orleans, from New
York to Bordeaux and Luxembourg, the songs are transformed,
immersed in jazz and gospel. Transcending cultural divisions
and rehearsing with of some of the world's most exceptional
musicians, Youssou N'Dour is preparing to return to Africa
for the final concert...
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