Kilimanjaro (2013)

O African Queen é o pequeno, mas estimado, barco de Charlie (Humphrey Bogart). Durante a Primeira Guerra, na selvagem África, ele assume a responsabilidade de levar a irmã do recém-falecido reverendo Samuel, Rose (Katharine Hepburn), para a civilização, através do rio, utilizando o barco. Mas existem dois problemas: Rose e Charlie não combinam em nada e as margens do rio estão cheias de alemães.

O escritor Harry Street (Gregory Peck), ferido gravemente durante um safári na África, aguarda a chegada de ajuda médica aos pés da montanha de Kilimanjaro, na África. Enquanto o auxílio não vem, ele relembra à esposa Helen (Susan Hayward) suas frustradas aventuras amorosas e seus fracassos como escritor. Em estado delirante, ele revive seu único romance verdadeiro, com Cynthia Green (Ava Gardner), cuja paixão ele deixou escapar devido à obsessão em viajar pelo mundo em busca de temas para seus livros.

Uma selva remota e esquecida revela um dos maiores mistérios da natureza: o nascimento, vida e morte de um milhão de flamingos rosados. Em um cenário espetacular e com paisagens jamais filmadas, as enigmáticas aves lutam para sobreviver e se impor aos perigos e ao destino.

Mbwana and his best friend Juma are two young men with big dreams. These dreams become reality when they photograph a gigantic fish leaping out of the sea and their small town blossoms into a tourist hot-spot as a result. But for Mbwana, the reality isn't what he dreamed – and when he meets the fish again, both of them forgotten, ruined and old, he decides only one of them can survive. Jonah is a big fish story about the old and the new, and the links and the distances between them. A visual feast, shot though with humour and warmth, it tells an old story in a completely new way.

Na Tanzânia, nos anos 60, a Perca do Nilo, um predador voraz, foi introduzida no lago Vitória, como experiência científica. Depois, praticamente todas as populações de peixes indígenas foram dizimadas. Desta catástrofe ecológica nasceu uma indústria frutuosa, pois a carne branca do enorme peixe é exportada com sucesso em todo o hemisfério norte.

It would be hard to name anyone who has had more of an impact in the realm of animal research and wildlife conservation than Jane Goodall, whose 45 year study of wild chimpanzees in Africa is legendary. In Jane's Journey, we travel with her across several continents, from her childhood home in England, to the Gombe National Park in Tanzania where she began her groundbreaking research and where she still returns every year to enjoy the company of the chimpanzees that made her famous. Featuring a wide range of interviews and spectacular footage from her own private collection, Jane's Journey is an inspiring portrait of the private person behind the world-famous icon.

Mashoto’s life in the city is a hustle. It’s a fast life in the fast city of Dar es Salaam. There’s no time to stop and Mashoto likes it this way. There’s no time to think about the people he left behind in the village. Until silence cuts through the city racket with three words: mother has died. With those words Mashoto’s life changes forever. He returns home, to the place he abandoned, to bury his only ally. Yet his mother has left behind a gift. Her voice, her unseen presence, a gentle whisper urging him to open his eyes and strain his ears- to learn the lessons of nature, of the earth and the roots that draw their nourishment from it. Cast out by his father after losing the little money his mother had left, Mashoto must learn to survive from the land. He must learn to face old enemies and forge new alliances, to fight and to love. Most of all, Mashoto must discover what it is he is fighting for.

For years, Doug Collins has been wading through a routine unsatisfying job and an increasingly miserable relationship. After his girlfriend moves out, Doug pushes himself to live a more fulfilling life starting with a trek to the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro.

An American woman doctor comes to Tanzania to work at a hospital for the mentally disturbed, with her Tanzanian lover. There, she meets a sometimes catatonic patient, Samahe, who seems to be in communication with another reality. In their confrontation with their individual and collective pasts, Dr Asira and Samehe are bound by fears and half remembered images of unbearable pain. Only through the spirit of Maangamizi, can the women resume their lives with an understanding of the ancestors and their eternal presence in a world of cruelty, hatred and death. It is a story that seeks to reclaim the connection between Africa and her Diaspora, and one that dares to represent the histories of two continents as it peels away layers upon layers of pain to bring healing of the soul.

Serengeti Symphony is a breathtaking look at the astounding landscape and exotic animals that make up the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. The film accounts the daily lives and intricacies of animals such as giraffe, flamingos, leopards and cheetahs, each vivid scene flawlessly paired with a musical score written by Laurens van Rooyen. Serengeti Symphony brings the beauty of Africa to life like never before, with close up colourful images of the terrain and unimaginable glimpses of the wildlife, allowing the true character of the landscape, and the grace and spirit of every animal, to shine through.

Five Kiwis take on a paragliding adventure in Tanzania, with the ultimate aim to fly from the summit of Mt Kilimanjaro.

Follows five trekkers and a local Chagga guide to the top of Kilimanjaro, the largest freestanding mountain in the world. Along their journey this diverse group of trekkers encounter strange landscapes and endure harsh conditions as they travel through five climate zones ranging from the lower rainforest reaches of Kilimanjaro to the summit's arctic glaciers.

On a train crossing Tanzania, a rolling microcosm of East African society, we follow three main characters, reflecting on the strength to survive.

A man (Bonner Paddock) born with cerebral palsy attempts to conquer Mt. Kilimanjaro in the name of charity and inspiration.

Follow a group of novice hikers, including director Holly Stadtler, as they scale the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain, in an effort to raise money for sick children, including Hope, a baby born 12 weeks premature. As the climbers ascend the treacherous peak, they contend with altitude sickness and injuries, finding that not all have the strength to reach the summit in this breathtaking documentary.

Shida is the new kid in class in a private boarding school in Tanzania. He is shy, he has no self-esteem, he does not speak one word of English - the primary language in the school, and he suffers from albinism. Like most children with albinism in the country Shida was taken away from his parents to be protected from the witchcraft related killings. The film follows Shida during his first year at the new school where the rules are strict and tolerance low. He is trying his best to meet the demands. The school is a chance of an education and to escape a life on the bottom of society. With the help from his new friend Allan he is struggling to become better in school and to be accepted by the teachers and pupils.

Birdmen of Kilimanjaro is a documentary about the enormous feat of Bill and Steve Moyes climbing to the top of Mt Kilimanjaro in Africa and flying off in hang gliders.

The secret life of hippos is revealed in this award-winning documentary, which follows divers into the waters of Tanzania's National Reserve. For the first time, cameras capture on film the astonishing underwater habits of these surprising creatures. A rare look at an essential part of hippo life, filmmakers Craig Huxley and Jean-Christophe Jeauffre's captivating documentary earned the Jules Verne Adventure Film Festival Audience Award.