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Background on African Cinema:

Viewing African Cinema: Six Pointers
Film Text and Context: Reweaving Africa's Social Fabric Through Its Contemporary Cinema
Other African Studies Resources


Other California Newsreel Collections:
AFRICAN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES
DIVERSITY TRAINING
MEDIA AND SOCIETY
MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS

LIBRARY OF AFRICAN CINEMA
The Library of African Cinema is North America's primary source of African videos - feature films and documentaries both. African filmmakers capture Africa's past, scrutinize its present, and imagine its future, enabling viewers to see Africa through African eyes. (Some titles are also available on 35mm film.)

Complete Film List A-Z

Africa Dreaming (Sophia's Homecoming, Sabriya, So Be It, The Gaze of the Stars)
Afrique, je te plumerai (Africa, I Will Fleece You)
Aimé Césaire: Une voix pour l'histoire (A Voice for History)
Ainsi meurent les anges (And so angels die)
Allah Tantou (God's Will)
Angano...Angano... (Tales from Madagascar)

Le bouillon d'Awara (Awara Soup)
Bye Bye Africa

Ca Twiste a Poponguine (Rocking Popenguine)
Chef! and
La tête dans les nuages (Chief! and Head in the Clouds)
Clando

Dakan (Destiny)
Daresalam (Let There Be Peace)
Divine Carcasse
Dôlè (Money)

Everyone's Child

Faat Kine
Fathers (Surrender, The Father, A Barber's Wisdom)
Femmes aux yeux ouverts (Women With Open Eyes)
Fintar O Destino (Dribbling Fate)
Finzan (A Dance for Heroes)
Flame
Le Franc
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask

La Gènese
Le grand blanc de Lambarene
Guimba the Tyrant

Hyenas

In a Time of Violence

Kafi's Story
Karmen Geï
Keita (The Heritage of the Griot)

The Language You Cry In

Long Night's Journey Into Day
Lumumba: La mort du prophete (Lumumba: Death of a Prophet)

Mapantsula (Hustler)
Monday's Girls
Mortu Nega(Those Whom Death Refused)

Ndeysaan (The Price of Forgiveness)
Nuba Conversations

On Tip Toe (Gentle Steps to Freedom)

Patient Abuse: South Africa's Struggle for AIDS Treatment
La petite vendeuse de Soleil (The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun)
Pièces d'identités
Prime Time South Africa


Quand les etoiles rencontrent la mer (When the Stars Meet the Sea)

Rostov-Luanda
Rouch in Reverse

Saaraba (Utopia)
Sango Malo (The Village Teacher)
South Africa Belongs to Us

Ta Dona (Fire!)
Taafe Fanga (Skirt Power)
Tableau Ferraille
O Testamento Do Senhor Napumoceno (Napumoceno's Will)
These Hands
Three Tales from Senegal (Le Franc, Fary L'Anesse, Picc Mi)
Thunderbolt

Udju Azul di Yonta (The Blue Eyes of Yonta)

La vie est belle (Life is Rosy)
La vie sur terre (Life on Earth)

A Walk in the Night
Wend Kuuni (God's Gift)
Woubi Cheri

You, Africa!
You Have Struck A Rock!

Zan Boko (Homeland)