In the claustrophobic depths of the Mutoshi mine in Katanga (DRC), Ndjimu follows The Rememberers – a community labouring in unsafe and brutal...
Deep Cobalt
In this documentary, filmmaker Bram Van Paesschen takes us to Katanga province, in the south of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Back in the days of...
Pale peko bantu mambo ayikosake
A hearty film in Kamba about two gentlemen and a pan of food.
Two Gents and a Pan
Shooting on 16mm film in Mozambique, director Ico Costa explores the textures of human behaviour as he follows young men who wonder what lies beyond...
Searching Nafta
When fish begin to vanish, community members are quick to blame Dani, the elderly woman rumoured to be a witch. Daisy, a fisherman’s daughter,...
Invisible Flame
Shot in Tanzania, this feature film shows four different life stories - stories of challenges, opportunities and second chances.
Maisha, Maisha Tu
PEPO KALI follows Wairimu, a woman in her 50s, as she learns to ride a motorcycle after her daughter's fatal accident. As she grapples with grief,...
Pepo Kali
In the Swahili cultural sex education 'Unyago', Bahati Ngazi learns from the wise women of the Swahili community the cultural importance of sex...
Unyagoni: Bahati's Sex Education Journey
A narcotics cop who moonlights as a heroin addict, finds redemption and a future in a sassy working girl who sees the gentle, loving man within, if...
Dar Noir
A successful married big city pharmacist returns to the village for her sisters wedding only to discover that her first love still pines for her with...
Aisha
Evokes the personal trajectory of a Tanzanian Massai woman refusing genital mutilation. Directed by two NGO volunteers from Luxemburg working on a...
Mila Tu. Becoming a Massaï woman without mutilation
Set in a post-apocalyptic Nairobi, when the government has shut down the internet, books and the written word have become exponentially valuable and...
Monsoons Over the Moon
Temple Road is a journey into the heart of womanhood, taking its name from the road that leads to the temple in the director’s hometown of...
Temple Road
When Akeem gets into conflict with his in-laws about his hair, he decides to visit the barber shop seeking a solution.
Cut It Off!
Suffering from a serious illness, Mariamu and those around her find themselves in conflict with their traditional values.
The Marriage of Mariamu
In a land where the birth of twins is taboo, a king and queen come into conflict with the gods and each other when they have twins of their own.
Malaika
In fabricating a fictional institute and its archive, the artists explore and imagine vernacular technological practices operating across the African...
Dzata: The Institute of Technological Consciousness
Ebola hunters stomp out the Ebola virus.
Tebaatusasula: Ebola
A conservative Muslim man’s life is turned upside down when his wife demands an orgasm.
Sukari
Two childhood best friends struggle to navigate brotherhood, betrayal, and redemption in the gritty and violent Mathare slums of Nairobi.
A Rough Sea
For Neema, being a woman has always meant a script: school, marriage, babies. When a doctor tells filmmaker Neema that having children might be hard,...
The Ones with the Tempered Flowers