This African Life

The story of a little girl with dreams big enough for a whole country. This African Life is seen through the eyes of Sokona Keita, who reveals harsh realities in a West African village, even as she expresses optimism for

African Peasant Farms

African Peasant Farms follows an unnamed African protagonist – ‘He is on his way to apply for a farm. He comes to a fly-post’ – and encourages the audience to identify with this African character. However, this protagoni

South African Scenes

Amateur film of scenes in South Africa. Opens on a house (residency), then landscape views from a train, city buildings and streets (possibly Durban), agricultural workers with oxen ploughing a field, group riding on a d

A Pan-African Mission

Native African Guitar

Gerhard Kubik, a cultural anthropologist with a keen interest in African music, spent years compiling recordings of African fingerstyle guitar playing. This program showcases his remarkable collection of music, recorded

An African in London

A Nigerian man is shown the famous sights of London by a friend.

African Underground: Democracy in Dakar

African Underground: Democracy in Dakar is a groundbreaking documentary film about hip-hop youth and politics in Dakar Senegal. The film follows rappers, DJs, journalists, professors and people on the street at the time

Urzila Carlson: Token African

Africans have become the new must have accessory. Okay, not really, but everyone knows one, works with one or has a sister that’s dating one of us. What makes you African? Is it enough that you’re born there? Do you need

My Wee African Village

A fast-paced, funny and touching story following a young Muslim entrepreneur with ambition and attitude as he embarks on his venture to open Europe's first 'African Village' in Possil, Glasgow.

Tokoloshe: An African Curse

A successful writer goes to an abandoned hotel with his wife and adopted daughter to finish his much anticipated follow-up book when strange things start to occur. At the same time, a high school teacher is forced to dea

The Story of an African Farm

The 1870's. South Africa. Life is normal at the farm on the slopes of a Karoo Kopje.Things change when the sinister, eccentric Bonaparte Blenkins with bulbous nose and chimney pot hat arrives. Their childhood is disrupte

The Great African Scandal

Robert Beckford visits Ghana in order to see the poverty of its people and find its causes.

I & I: An African Allegory

Drawing from Ayi Kwei Armah’s novel, "Two Thousand Seasons," Caldwell meditates on reciprocity and on the concept of “I and I” which postulates no division between people, whereas the splitting of “you” from “I” is an in

Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen

The epic story of how the film The African Queen (1951), directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, was shot on real African locations, barely overcoming all kinds of hardships and disast

Lions of the African Night

Documentary exploring the nighttime lives of the greatest of all cats, the African lion. The film follows a large pride of more than two dozen lions as they stalk various prey through the jungle and grasslands.

KURA: An African AFL Story

Former AFLW player Akec Makur Chuot traces a path from her heroes to the new generation of African Australian stars navigating two worlds to find belonging.

Top Gear: The Great African Adventure

Another expedition for Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May. This time around, our intrepid explorers take on the task of finding the source of the Nile in three barely roadworthy estate cars. After surmounting

Love Brewed in the African Pot

Love collides with social class and colonialism when Aba Appiah, born to privilege, falls in love with Joe Quansah, son of a fisherman. Her father, retired civil servant Kofi Appiah, has other plans for her, and seeks to

Paul Simon | Graceland: The African Concert

Singer Paul Simon and several African musicians perform a concert to benefit victims of apartheid in South Africa.

Salah, an African toubab?

Not every African wants to go to Europe! Every African wants to go to Europe is the common public opinion in Europe. The young and energetic will rise to the opportunity of finding a better life in Europe or the US, as i