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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


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Moussa Sene Absa - Ainsi meurent les anges (And so angels die)
Moussa Sene Absa - Ça twiste à Poponguine (Rocking Popenguine) and Tableau Ferraille
David Achkar - Allah Tantou (God's Will)
Ndiouga Moctar Ba - You Africa!
Phillip Brooks & Laurent Bocahut - Woubi Cheri
Mohamed Camara - Dakan (Destiny)
Issa Serge Coelo - Daresalam (Let There Be Peace)
Tsitsi Dangarembga - Everyone's Child
Manthia Diawara - Rouch in Reverse
Adama Drabo - Ta Dona (Fire!) and Taafe Fanga (Skirt Power)
Mickey Dube -
A Walk in the Night
Anne-Laure Folly - Femmes aux Yeux Ouvertes
Celine Gilbert - Surrender (Part of Fathers)
Flora Gomes - Udju Azul di Yonta (Blue Eyes of Yonta) and Mortu Nega(Those Whom Death Refused)
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun - Bye Bye Africa
Amaka Igwe - A Barber's Wisdom (Part of Fathers)
Imunga Ivanga -
Dôlè (Money)
Isaac Julien - Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask
Gaston Kaboré - Wend Kuuni (God's Gift) and Zan Boko (Homeland)
Tunde Kelani - Thunderbolt
Bassek ba Kobhio - Le Grand Blanc de Lambaréné and Sango Malo (The Village Teacher)
Jack Lewis -
Patient Abuse: South Africa's Struggle for AIDS Treatment
Dominque Loreau - Divine Carcasse
Flora M'mbugu-Schelling - These Hands
Djibril Diop Mambety - Hyenas, Le Franc (Part of the Three Tales from Senegal) and La Petite vendeuse de Soleil (The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun)
Francisco Manso - O Testamento do Senhor Napumoceno (Napumoceno's Will)
Ngangura Mweze - La vie est belle (Life is Rosy), Pièces d'identités (I.D.)
Ngozi Onwurah - Monday's Girls
Cesar Paes - Angano...Angano... Tales from Madagascar
Richard Pakleppa - Sophia's Homecoming (part of Africa Dreaming)
Raoul Peck - Lumumba: la mort du prophète (Lumumba: Death of a Prophet)
Raymond Rajaonarivelo - Quand les étoiles rencontrent la mer (When the Stars Meet the Sea)
Joseph Gai Ramaka - So Be It (part of Africa Dreaming)
Joseph Gaï Ramaka - Karmen Geï
João Ribeiro - The Gaze of the Stars (part of Africa Dreaming)
Amadou Seck - Saaraba (Utopia)
Ousmane Sembene - Faat Kine
Ingrid Sinclair - Flame
Abderrahmane Sissako - Sabriya (part of Africa Dreaming) and Rostov-Luanda, and
La vie sur terre (Life on Earth)
Cheick Oumar Sissoko - Finzan (A Dance for the Heroes) and Guimba the Tyrant, and La Gènese
Jean-Marie Teno - Afrique, je te plumerai (Africa I will Fleece You) and Clando,
Chef! (Chief!), and La tête dans les nuages (Head in the Clouds)
Brian Tilley - In a Time of Violence
Alvaro Toepke and Angel Serrano - The Language You Cry In
Fernando Vendrell - Fintar O Destino (Dribbling Fate)
Mansour Sora Wade - Fary L'Anesse (Fary the Donkey), Picc Mi ( Both Parts of the Thee Tales from Senegal) and Ndeysaan (The Price of Forgiveness)
Ermias Woldeamlak - The Father (Part of Fathers)