The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos (2008)

1909年、人種差別が色濃く残るジョージア州。幼くして出産経験がある少女セリーにとって心の支えは、美人で頭がいい妹ネティだった。そんなセリーは“ミスター”と呼ばれる男性に嫁ぐことに。奴隷も同然の毎日を過ごす中、家出をしたネティがセリーの家に訪ねてくるが、ミスターは彼女を追い払ってしまう。やがてミスターは昔の恋人で歌手のシャグを家に住まわせるように。セリーはシャグとの出会いを機に自立を意識しだす。

A failed track coach finally finds someone who he believes has what it takes to win. The Comrades Marathon is a 90-k race in South Africa. An aging running coach, Barry, wants to field a winner; he's working with four men from a factory, but when he's fired to make way for a smooth, corporate type, he's at loose ends. Then he sees Christine, a Namibian immigrant who runs to forget her troubles. He offers to coach her and soon she's living at his house, following his diet and training regimen. But his single-mindedness gets to her: she wants a job and a place of her own. Plus, the man who replaced Barry likes her and wants her away from Barry. Can runner and coach (woman and man, African and European) sort out their complex relationship before the race? Written by

かつてのウガンダで独裁政治を行なったアミン大統領の内幕を大胆に脚色し、側近医師の目を通して描き出した社会派サスペンス。残虐な大統領をフォレスト・ウィテカー、権力に負ける医師をジェイムズ・マカヴォイが演じる。

20世紀初頭のアフリカを舞台に、愛と冒険に生きたひとりの女の半生を描いた一大ロマンス。スウェーデン貴族と結婚し、ケニアに渡って来たデンマーク人の令嬢カレン。だがそこには幸せな結婚生活は無く、農場経営も思うように進まない。そんな彼女の前にサファリのガイドを務めている冒険家が現れた……。アカデミー賞7部門受賞。

ダイヤの密売人であるダニー・アーチャー（レオナルド・ディカプリオ）は、巨大なピンク・ダイヤを隠し持つソロモン（ジャイモン・フンスー）という男の存在を知る。一方、ジャーナリストのマディー（ジェニファー・コネリ）は、反政府組織“RUF”の資金源となっている“ブラッド・ダイヤモンド”の真相を探っていた……。

フランス映画界の伝説のスター、ジャン＝ポール・ベルモンドが主演したハードボイルド・リベンジ・アクション。アフリカでの暗殺作戦中に国家に裏切られてしまった男が生き延び、帰国して復讐を繰り広げる。

ニューヨークのセントラルパーク動物園。ライオンのアレックス、シマウマのマーティ、キリンのメルマン、カバのグロリアは大の仲良し。彼らは安全で快適な動物園の贅沢な暮らしをすっかり満喫していた。しかしある日、外の世界に憧れたマーティがテロリストのペンギンたちと一緒に動物園を脱走、マーティを連れ戻そうと後を追ったアレックスたちともども捕らえられ、ひょんなことから四頭はケニア行きの船に乗せられてしまう。さらに思わぬハプニングで海に投げ出された彼らは、やがてマダガスカル島に漂着。そこで現地の動物たちに迎えられ、生まれて初めて野生の生活に触れた四頭は、次第にそれぞれ本来の習性に目覚めていくのだった。

Cutter Murdock inherits an estate in Africa on which "Satan's Harvest" (heroin and marijuana) is grown. The thugs growing the drugs want him out of the way, so things get messy.

Roar follows a family who are attacked by various African animals at the secluded home of their keeper.

Lorenzo and Sandro are friends and partners of Agostino, director of a real estate agency, a great lover of Africa. During a lunch they accidentally meet Giovanni, known in Kenya. The man, having become familiar, proposes a real estate deal in the dark continent. This is a project for the construction in Malindi of a resort with villas and swimming pools, designed for the western market. Lorenzo is disinterested and skeptical, while Sandro is enthusiastic. However, they discover that the place where the complex will be built is a mission that deals with helping children. Lorenzo recognizes Laura, the girl he was in love with as a young man, among the nuns. Together then, they decide to help out ...

アフリカのサバンナに君臨する偉大なる王、ライオンのムファサが息子シンバを授かり、さまざまな動物たちが誕生の儀式に集まってくる。動物たちは、ヒヒの祈祷師ラフィキが皆の前にささげた将来の王シンバに深くこうべを垂れる。だが、自分が王になれないことに不満を募らせるムファサの弟スカーだけは、シンバの誕生を苦々しく感じていた。

America has long been called a Christian nation. In fact, over 70% of adults in America identify themselves as Christian. Yet when filmmaker Brandon McGuire heads to the streets to ask a few clarifying questions about how Christianity is defined within our culture, he is shocked by the answers he finds. This provocative documentary takes us deep within the American mind and brings to the surface the big ideas that have influenced the way we think about ourselves and about God.

Children and teenagers throw sticks, berries, and leaves at each other from perches in a large baobab tree.

"Cinq jours d’une vie" is about a young man, N'Tji, orphaned at an early age, who lives under the supervision of his uncle. He is sent to Koranic school, where he is forced to memorize and recite verses of the Koran; soon, N’Tji escapes and begins to craft his own destiny. Unfortunately, he is found and thrown in prison, and must live with the implications upon release. In this film, Cissé explores the institution of the Koranic school and its detrimental effects on young people’s autonomy and ability to explore their futures.

A young student from a family which considers itself "progressive" cannot marry the boy she loves as he comes from the caste of the smiths who are viewed as pariahs.

A Luta Continua explains the military struggle of the Liberation Front of Mozambique (FRELIMO) against the Portuguese. Produced and narrated by American activists Robert Van Lierop, it details the relationship of the liberation to the wider regional and continental demands for self-determination against minority rule. It notes the complicit roles of foreign governments and companies in supporting Portugal against the African nationalists. Footage from the front lines of the struggle helps contextualize FRELIMO's African socialist ideology, specifically the role of the military in building the new nation, a commitment to education, demands for sexual equality, the introduction of medical aid into the countryside, and the role of culture in creating a single national identity.

A look at the Brazilian black movement between 1977 and 1988, going by the relationship between Brazil and Afrika.

Rites and operation of the circumcision of thirty Songhai children on the Niger. Material of this film has been used to make "Les Fils de l'Eau".

Africa, that huge drop of strange land that hangs from Europe, resembles in many ways that road that only takes the railway route teaching you the back room of factories and cities. Here you can see the planet from behind the scenes. In the African situation, imposed by the rich countries of the north, all the defects of capitalism are condensed and the true nature of the world order is in this disaster.