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Sacha is a reporter. For 4 months, he traveled for 6,000 kilometers of expeditions and cooking. First on a sailboat in the Mediterranean, then hitchhiking in Morocco or on a freight train in Mauritania, he ended his journey on a motorbike in Senegal. People, places and local recipes are on the menu of this documentary.
Red Africa relates the history of the influence exerted by the USSR over many African states between 1960 and 1990, working from extraordinary archival footage filmed by Soviet operators. The subtle editing of restored images reveals the hidden agenda of the USSR which, under the cloak of generosity, was aspiring to expand its socialist “paradise”.
Siisi is an active and handsome young woman who would have the energy to send the first Estonian space shuttle to Venus. Instead, she flies to Uganda, where she plans to open a caféteria that will provide employment for young people with disabilities.
At the age of 97 Riefenstahl returns to Sudan for one final farewell to the Nuba that she lived with for 8 months and photographed and filmed extensively. Müller documents her return after 23 years away and her reaction to the collapsing culture that she once celebrated so avidly in her photographs.
In 2003 Stocktown made its first documentary series for Swedish Television, a collage of street culture and urban inventiveness in four continents. The sequel Stocktown X South Africa, is a documentary about the contemporary vigorous, social and creative urban cultures of South Africa. When the Swedish directors Teddy Goitom and Benjamin Taft set off on a road trip across South Africa, they met fashion designers, punk bands, artists and guerilla filmmakers who all redefine what it means to be young independent and South African in the twenty-first century.
When Hugo Pratt passed away in 1995, he was holding an Ethiopian cross in his left hand. In order to understand his enduring love of the black continent, Hugo Pratt’s companion, Jean Claude Guilbert, together with a group of like-minded people, searches for traces of him in the Horn of Africa. Thanks to their efforts and invaluable audiovisual archive material, a new picture of this remarkable artist and his attitude towards Africa begins to emerge.
Short documentary on a central african tribe called 'The Chillouks'.
When an uptown Chinese girl gets herself lost in the heart of Africa, she has to evade poachers, predators, and diamonds hungry mercenaries to make it out in one piece.
A USSR animated short adapted from one of Jomo Kenyatta's fables.
At the end of the year, 3 siblings make kimchi wearing their mom’s old clothes.
Eugene, an idealistic young African farmer and musician, decides to leave his village and family momentarily to try out his luck in the city. He makes new friends there, who accompany him on his musical career. He also meets up with Kassi, a childhood friend who has become a prostitute, with whom a new, closer friendship begins. However, when she dies from AIDS, Eugene is confronted by the harsh reality that his spontaneity and innocence blocked out and decides to put his singing talents and fame as a singer to the service of fighting the disease of AIDS. Once back home in his village, the reunion with his wife and children make him realize that life and hope are more powerful than anything else.
Girl Nika returns home after a volunteer mission in Africa. And at home, she is not at all happy to see Diana, a lover of parties and young guys, her mother.
Jane was born in Petersburg, lives in Moscow, works as a model. Her father moved to Russia from Ghana when he was 20 years old. Listening to the stories of her father, Jane always wanted to go back home. She had never been to Africa, had not seen her relatives, including her grandmother and aunt ... Suddenly, Jane finds out that her aunt will become the leader of the region in Ghana and decides to go on a trip to Accra to attend the inauguration of the leader and meet her relatives ...
When Fereydoun's children put him in a nursing home, his ex-wife Shokoo takes him to her house although her new husband does not quite approve.
South African Movie
Documentary about the history of the Belgium-Congo route, made on the occasion of the thousandth flight.