In My Country (2017)
Gênero : Drama
Runtime : 1H 39M
Director : Frank Rajah Arase
Sinopse
Uma professora procura um homem suspeito para arrecadar dinheiro para a cirurgia que salvará sua filha, o que desenrola uma série de acontecimentos trágicos.
O conflito ruandês entre tutsis e hutus marcou um dos capítulos mais sangrentos da história africana recente. Em meio à horrenda violência e caos surgiu Paul Rusesabagina, um homem que ofereceu abrigo a mais de mil refugiados tutsis em seu hotel, apesar do perigo para si mesmo e sua família.
Em 1921, uma equipe de arqueologistas no Egito, liderados por Sir Joseph Whemple, descobre a múmia do príncipe Imhotep, que vivera há 3.700 anos e teve como castigo ser enterrado vivo. Também foram encontrados manuscritos com o poder de fazer mortos ressuscitarem, e uma noite, um dos membros da expedição traz o príncipe de volta à vida. Agora, Imhotep vive e se passa por Ardath Bay, um egípcio contemporâneo que persegue uma mulher que acredita ser a reencarnação de sua adorada princesa.
Alfredo Garcia engravida a filha de um latifundiário mexicano que, revoltado, oferece 1 milhão de dólares por sua cabeça. Um músico arruinado descobre que o procurado já está morto e corta a cabeça do defunto para receber a recompensa.
A 15-year-old Somalian boy meets a 40-year-old Iranian man in a refugee camp in Skåne, in the south of Sweden. With the threat of deportation hanging over them, they decide to take their faiths in their own hands and together they go on a journey in the Swedish summer.
A now-rich woman returns to her poor desert hometown to propose a deal to the populace: her fortune, in exchange for the death of the man who years earlier abandoned her and left her with his child.
Bizet's Carmen gets a modern adaptation. Seducting, provocating, sensual. All the ingredients for a perfect drama. With her charm, Karmen gets out of many situations.
Short directed by Mansour Sora Wade.
Grace Wales Bonner's FW15 Collection as shown by V&A's Fashion In Motion, focused on the western interpretation of African and Black culture
A Wildlife Safari through Africa.
Uma professora procura um homem suspeito para arrecadar dinheiro para a cirurgia que salvará sua filha, o que desenrola uma série de acontecimentos trágicos.
Out of Darkness is a full length three-part documentary by director Amadeuz Christ (Δ+), examining the untold history of African people, the African cultural contribution to the nations of the world, and the events that have contributed to the condition of African people today. Out of Darkness will explore the Nubian/Kushitic origins of Nile Valley Civilization, contact between Africa and the Americas since the times of antiquity, as well as the influence of the Moors in Europe leading to Europe’s intellectual Renaissance. In addition, the film will analyze the history of modern day racism, the concept of “white supremacy,” the impact of Hip Hop as a social movement, and the idea of nationhood. Out of Darkness is narrated by Prof. Kaba Kamene and co-stars Dr. Umar Johnson, Dr. Claud Anderson, Tim Wise, Prof. James Small, Dr. Joy DeGruy, Anthony Browder, Sabir Bey, Atlantis Browder, and Taj Tarik Bey.
A Mauritanian worker, Sidi, works in France. Like most immigrant workers, he is employed to do the most difficult and dangerous jobs. Sidi and his comrades are exploited systematically and permanently, as much by their employers as by their own countrymen who are constantly able to offer false working papers, slums where immigrants buy at high cost their right to sleep. But faced with racism and economic exploitation, immigrant workers communicate, organise...
This biographical docudrama traces the life of Dr. Albert Schweitzer, from his birth in Alsace, up to the age of 30 when he made the decision to go to French Equatorial Africa and build his jungle hospital. The latter half of the film encompasses a full day in the hospital-village, following the octogenarian Samaritan in his daily rounds.
No Nordeste brasileiro, entre os séculos 16 e 17, alguns escravos de um engenho de cana-de-açúcar tramam uma fuga para o Quilombo dos Palmares, uma comunidade de negros fugidos da escravidão, na Serra da Barriga. Entre eles, encontra-se o jovem Ganga Zumba (Antonio Pitanga), futuro líder daquela república revolucionária, a primeira de toda a América.
Um grupo de solteiros tenta se dar bem nas paqueras em Nairóbi. Um casal de amigos começa a ter sentimentos mais profundos um pelo outro.
An African travels to Paris to learn about the construction of tall buildings, but is soon taken up with the oddities of French life.
Because jazz is the miraculous product of the horror of slavery, Youssou N'Dour returned to the slave route and the music they created, in search of new inspiration. Accompanied by the blind Swiss pianist Moncef Genoud and the Director of the Gorée House of Slaves Museum, Joseph N'Diaye, the Senegalese singer wrote new songs during this initiatory voyage which took him to the USA then to Europe. At Gorée, an island just off the Senegalese coast and symbol of the slave trade, his memorable concert marked the end of this quest and the start of a new challenge: making today's generation aware of the tragedy of slavery, the importance of not forgetting and the need for reconciliation.
Júnior is forced into religious devotion with devastating consequences.
Part documentary, part personal essay, this experimental film combines archive imagery with the striking wintry landscapes of Alaska to tell the story of immigrant experience coming into the UK from 1960 onwards.