Grande Balé Vermelho: O Mistério dos Flamingos (2008)

Em 1906, em uma pequena cidade da Georgia, sul dos Estados Unidos, a quase adolescente Celie, violentada pelo próprio pai, torna-se mãe de duas crianças. Separada dos filhos, Celie (Whoopi Goldberg, que foi indicada ao Oscar de melhor atriz por este filme em 1985), é doada à Mister (Danny Glover, de Máquina Mortífera), que a trata como companheira e escrava ao mesmo tempo. Cada vez mais calada e solitária, Celie passa a compartilhar sua tristeza em carta.

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

Nicholas Garrigan é um elegante médico escocês, que deixou recentemente a faculdade. Ele parte para Uganda em busca de aventura, romance e alegria, por poder ajudar um país que precisa muito de suas habilidades médicas. Logo após sua chegada Nicholas é levado ao local de um acidente bizarro, onde o líder recém-empossado do país Idi Amin, atropelou uma vaca com seu Maserati. Nicholas consegue dominar a situação, o que impressiona Amin. Obcecado com a cultura e a história da Escócia, Amin se afeiçoa a Nicholas e lhe oferece a oportunidade de ser seu médico particular. Ele aceita a oferta, o que faz com que passe a frequentar o círculo interno de um dos mais terríveis ditadores da África.

Karen Blixen é uma rica dinamarquesa que vai morar em uma fazenda de café no Quênia com Bror Blixen-Finecke, um barão com quem se casou por conveniência. Mas o casal vive como se fossem mais amigos do que amantes e acabam se separando e Bror vai embora. Agora Karen está sozinha na fazendo cuidando do trabalho, mas conhece Denys Finch Hatton, um aristocrata inglês que se torna seu grande amor.

Quando a Guerra Civil se enfurece na década de 1990 em Serra Leoa, dois homens, um branco sul-africano mercenário e um pescador negro, se juntam em uma busca para recuperar uma joia rara que tem o poder de transformar suas vidas. Com a ajuda de uma jornalista norte-americana, os homens embarcam em uma jornada perigosa através do território rebelde para conseguir seu objetivo.

French secret service agent Josselin Beaumont is dispatched to take down African warlord N'Jala. But when his assignment is canceled, he's shocked to learn that his government is surrendering him to local authorities. He is given a mock trial and sentenced to 20 years of hard labor. But Beaumont escapes from prison and vows not only to avenge himself against his betrayers but also to finish his original assignment.

O leão Alex é a grande atração do zoológico do Central Park, em Nova York. Ele e seus melhores amigos, a zebra Marty, a girafa Melman e a hipopótamo Gloria, sempre passaram a vida em cativeiro e desconhecem o que é morar na selva. Curioso em saber o que há por trás dos muros do zoo, Marty decide fugir e explorar o mundo. Ao perceberem, Alex, Gloria e Melman decidem partir à sua procura. O trio encontra Marty na estação Grand Central do metrô, mas antes que consigam voltar para casa são atingidos por dardos tranquilizantes e capturados. Embarcados em um navio rumo à África, eles acabam na ilha de Madagascar, onde precisam encontrar meios de sobrevivência em uma selva verdadeira.

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 ...

Simba é um jovem leão cujo destino é se tornar o rei da selva. Entretanto, uma armadilha elaborada por seu tio Scar faz com que Mufasa, o atual rei, morra ao tentar salvar o filhote. Consumido pela culpa, Simba deixa o reino rumo a um local distante, onde encontra amigos que o ensinam a mais uma vez ter prazer pela vida.

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.

Entenda os movimentos negros brasileiros entre 1977 e 1988 e a relação entre Brasil e África, com destaque para a história pessoal de Beatriz Nascimento.

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.