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- An African Recovery - Niger's battle against desertification.
- Airs in Berberland Part I
- Airs in Berberland Part II
- Aita - Part of the MOROCCO, BODY AND SOUL series of half hour films which present various musical genres being performed in the environments which fostered them.
- Another Man's Garden - In order to study medicine, Sofia, a young woman in Mozambique, must overcome the traditional belief that educating a woman is like "watering another man's garden." (new February, 2008)
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- Banguza Timbila - A window into Mozambique's rich musical heritage, 10 timbila players and fifteen dancers the story of Mozambique's struggle for independence.
- Birth of a Democracy - Through their juxtaposed analyses of Cameroonians from all backgrounds, a revealing collage of the birth of a uniquely African democracy is presented
- Bruly Bouabré's Alphabet - In the 1950's, Ivory Coast artist Bruly Bouabré created hundreds of pictograms based on one-syllable words in his language, Bété.
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- A Child's Century of War - Takes the viewer on a journey through the past century - the bloodiest in history - from the perspective of children, and tells their stories in their voices.
- Chronicle Of A Genocide Foretold - Shot over three years, CHRONICLE OF A GENOCIDE FORETOLD follows several Rwandans before, during, and after the 1994 genocide.
- City of Dreams - A day in Ponte City, perhaps the tallest residential building in the southern hemisphere, and home to thousands of immigrants from all over Africa.
- The Color of Gold - In South Africa's President Steyn Gold Mine, 8000 men live in a compound next to the mine shaft in which they dig, far from their families.
- The Commodities Series - A seven-part look at Third World commodities and their producers' relationships to sellers and traders at major exchanges.
- The Cow Jumped Over the Moon - The story of Fulani cattle herders in West Africa using U.S. satellite imaging technology to find grazing and water for their herds during drought.
- Crossroads - Tells the story of a "hotelli" at a crossing of roads leading from Uganda into Tanzania and from Kenya via Rwanda to Zaire, and, it turns out, at the crossroads of tumultuous events in central Africa.
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- Daughter of Keltoum - Rallia, a young woman raised in Switzerland, travels to a remote settlement in Algeria's Atlas Mountains to find her biological mother, and learns about her extended family and Berber culture.
- A Day With the President - A full day - from 4.00am until 11.00pm - in the life of President Nelson Mandela.
- The Deadline - A unique and intimate look at the realpolitik of South Africa's negotiated settlement, filmed in the closing stages of the writing of South Africa's new constitution.
- The Debt Crisis: An African Dilemma - Focusing on Zambia's economy, a demonstration of the impact of African nations' financial crises.
- Diamonds and Rust - Off the coast of Namibia, the crew of a diamond-mining trawler works tirelessly around the clock in an atmosphere fraught with racial and political tension.
- Distress Signals - A worrisome look at the global consequences of America's number 2 export: entertainment.
- Donka: X-Ray of an African Hospital - Daily life in the largest public hospital in the Republic of Guinea
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- End of the Dialogue - A landmark film that was one of the first to reveal the full horrors of apartheid to the world.
- Enough! - In the midst of the Algerian civil war in the mid-90s, a young doctor goes in search of her journalist husband who she fears has been kidnapped for his critical views of the ongoing conflict. (new February, 2008)
- Everything Must Come to Light - This documentary focuses on the lives of three dynamic lesbians sangomas (traditional healers) living in Soweto, South Africa.
- Everything's Fine - Seydou Konaté is a doctor in a remote area in Mali. But he is at the center of a global issue: bringing quality health care to rural people left behind by development.
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- Fang - Mixes documentary and fiction techniques to recount an African art object's 100 year journey - a whole century of Western attitudes towards African culture packed into 8 minutes!
- Farewell, GDR - The dilemma of former Mozambican refugees returning home from Germany.
- Following On - The final episode from the third season of ORDINARY PEOPLE revisits a number of the men, women, and children featured in the first year of the South African documentary series.
- The Future of Mud - This is the story of Komusa Tenapo, master mason and heir to the secrets of Djenne architecture, the traditional use of mud in Malian buildings.
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- Gacaca - Ventures into the rural heart of the African nation of Rwanda to follow the first steps in one of the world's boldest experiments in reconciliation: the Gacaca (Ga-CHA-cha) Tribunals.
- The Global Film Initiative (2005) - An exciting series of ten feature films from Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East that promote cross-cultural understanding through the medium of cinema.
- Gnaouas
- Goldwidows: Women in Lesotho - "Goldwidows" are the women whose husbands work in South Africa's mines - often without returning home for five years at a time.
- Guinea Worm - Examines the nearly successful fight to eradicate a water borne parasite in Africa.
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- A History Lesson - A Holocaust survivor and two students - one black, the other Jewish - visit the Anne Frank in the World Exhibition in Johannesburg.
- Hollow City - Following a massacre in his village, 11-year-old orphan N’dala is airlifted to Luanda, Angola, and comes to rely on other street children as he transitions into life in a dangerous city.
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- I Have a Problem, Madam - Ugandan women seek justice with the help women lawyers at legal aid clinics provided by FIDA-Uganda.
- I Talk About Me, I Am Africa - An intimate look at black South Africans' cultural resistance to apartheid.
- I'll Sing for You - Mali, and the delicate yet powerful rhythms of the country's most famous musician, Boubacar Traoré, who sang songs of independence to an entire generation.
- Imperfect Journey - Filmmaker Haile Gerima surveys his native Ethiopia after the fall of the Mengistu dictatorship.
- In Rwanda We Say... - 2004 was the 10th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, and the government released 16,000 confessed killers into their communities. Captures the first steps toward reconciliation between Hutu and Tutsi that followed.
- It's My Life - Zackie Achmat, a leading AIDS activist in South Africa, has refused to take anti-retroviral medicines until they are made available by the government in public hospitals and clinics.
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- J'y Crois - I Believe In It - A beautifully composed political documentary investigating the decentralization process in Mali.
- Justice at Agadez - Agadez, Niger: Alongside the laws of the state, another judicial system exists. The living heritage of the Muslim tradition.
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- Kabala - A Malian feature film about the necessity of accepting both technology and the enduring power of traditional ways in a small village.
- Kuxa Kanema - The story of Mozambique's National Institute of Cinema (INC) - a history of the birth and death of local cinema, and the birth and death of an ideology.
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- Lagos / Koolhaas - Renowned architect Rem Koolhaas and students from The Harvard Project on the City explore Lagos, Nigeria, interpreting the chaotic city in an innovative, surprising way.
- Land Affairs - Racial tensions in rural South Africa, where black farmers displaced during apartheid are reclaiming land now "owned" by whites.
- The Last Colonials - A revealing visit with the last of Zaire's remaining white population.
- Last Grave at Dimbaza - Shot secretly and smuggled out of South Africa at the height of the apartheid era, this was the most widely screened and influential anti-apartheid documentary. Now restored and on DVD for the first time.
- The Lawyer, The Farmer and The Clerk - Examines the troubling issue of land rights in the new South Africa.
- Leaving Home for Sugar - Later production of sugar in the West Indies and Zimbabwe.
- The Life and Times of Sara Baartman - The strange and sad case of Sara Baartman, kidnapped from South Africa in 1810, "exhibited" around Great Britain, and then treated as a scientific curiosity.
- Living Memory - About Mali's ancient culture, and this culture's position in the country today. Exposes tensions in a society assailed by modernization, Islam and global tourism, yet confident that it will maintain its own distinctive character.
- Living With The Past - Cairo is one of the few medieval cities in the world that remains relatively intact. This a portrait of Darb al-Ahmar, a neighborhood in the old city now facing a process of radical change.
- Love Stories - A series of three documentaries about extraordinary love affairs, set in South Africa.
- Lutes and Delights - Combining Arab and Moroccan poetry with accents from flamenco, Abdesadek Chekara and his orchestra, famous throughout Morocco, are among the most faithful interpreters of Arab-Andalusian music.
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- Make Believe - At two concurrent - and diametrically opposed - rallies in a white town and its neighboring black township, South Africa's children present their visions of their nation's future.
- Malhoune - The musical sessions, which occur "as often as the day rises" in Marrakech and in Meknes, are the living forerunners of Moroccan popular poetry.
- Malick Sidibé - Short but sweet look at the work of the renowned African artist whose photographs have documented social and cultural changes in Mali over a forty-year period.
- Mama Awethu! - The stories of five black South African women in the townships around Cape Town reveal the inhuman legacy of the apartheid system.
- Matamata and Pilipili - Reclaims an important episode in the history of Congolese popular culture, the Matamata and Pilipili series of colonial-era film comedies, while exploring the complex terrain of colonial relationships and media representations.
- Max and Mona - A black comedy about a South African village boy with extraordinary mourning skills, who journeys to a daunting city to become a "white doctor."
- A Mobile World - A fascinating and comprehensive look at the current telecommunications revolution and the growing concerns over the ever-widening digital divide.
- Mobutu - The definitive history and visual record of the rise and fall of Joseph Désiré Mobutu, ruler of Zaire (the Congo) for over 30 years.
- Morocco, Body and Soul Series - Additional releases in Izza Genini's collection of lyrical films about Moroccan music and culture.
- Mr. Foot - A light hearted look at Cameroon's national obsession - soccer.
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- The Night of Truth - In an imaginary country in Africa with economic and political conditions like Sudan and Sierra Leone, after ten years of civil war the president and the rebel leader agree to hold a night of feasting when a peace agreement will be signed.
- Nkulelko Means Freedom - A portrait of Zimbabwe's educational system which developed in the refugee camps of the liberation war.
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- On the Rumba River - "Papa Wendo" and band have been playing in their unique musical fusion style along the Congo River for nearly sixty years.
- Ordinary People - The first ever independently produced current affairs series aired by the South African Broadcasting Corporation's TV1.
- Our Friends at the Bank - Follows World Bank and International Monetary Fund decision-makers in Uganda, showing how top-level decisions are made in the field. (released April, 1998)
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- Passing the Message - Reveals the struggles of black South African workers to organize unions in the face of a vast entanglement of repressive government policies.
- The Peacemakers - The premiere episode of the acclaimed Ordinary People series visits two rallies commemorating the 1961 Sharpeville massacre - one staged by the Inkatha Freedom Party, the other by the African National Congress.
- The Penalty Area - Built around a soccer match between inmates and the Orlando Pirates, this is the first film ever shot inside a South African prison.
- Photo Souvenir - Philippe Koudjina was once a renowned portrait photographer in Niger, but now, due to injury and illness, he barely ekes out an existence, while his contemporaries Sidibe and Keita have gone on to international success.
- Politics Do Not a Banquet Make - Stories of the past, present and future of Ethiopia.
- Portraits of Age - A look at the changing nature of the "senior" citizen's role around the world.
- The Price of Aid - An investigation of America's food aid programs for famine-stricken nations, a multi-million dollar business, which asks both U.S. and African government officials whether such aid creates more problems than it solves.
- The Price of Gold
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- Red Hat - Where Are You Going? - An examination of the socio-political role of the Mossi chiefs in the West African nation of Burkina Faso.
- Regopstaan's Dream - The last surviving South African Bushmen, and their fight to reclaim ancestral land in the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park.
- A Republic Gone Mad - A different perspective on the Rwandan massacres derived from study of historical relations between the Tutsi and Hutu.
- The Return of Sara Baartman - After years of unsettling negotiation with France, South Africa finally welcomes home the remains of Sara Baartman in an historic event of repatriation.
- The Ribbon - The journey of the "Peace Ribbon," created by South African mothers both black and white, to protest the government's brutal internal policies.
- Rwandan Nightmare - Provides unusual insight into the appalling - and misunderstood - Rwandan slaughter of the mid-1990s.
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- Samora Machel, Son Of Africa - Before his death in a mysterious plane crash, Mozambican President Samora Machel gave the filmmaker and exclusive interview that forms the basis for the look at one of Africa's most important freedom fighters and revolutionaries.
- Sankara - A portrait of Thomas Sankara, the late President of Burkina Faso.
- Searching for Hawa's Secret - The story of the unlikely partnership between a Canadian microbiologist and a Kenyan prostitute in the scientific quest to find a vaccine for AIDS.
- Sebokeng By Night - A tour of Sebokeng township, where "invisible" gunmen come out in the night and kill arbitrarily.
- 6000 A Day - The story of how the world's top decision makers knowingly failed to prevent the spread of the AIDS epidemic.
- South Africa Belongs to Us - Aided by two black women journalists, the filmmakers visited workers' barracks, a family planning clinic in Soweto, and a shantytown to create the first and most stirring record of black women's lives in South Africa under apartheid.
- South African Chronicles - Nine short documentaries by young South African filmmakers.
- Stepping Out - A look at gay life in South Africa.
- Story of a Beautiful Country - A South African filmmaker travels in a mini-van taxi across his country with a hand-held camera. Topics range over controversial issues such as land, race, language, democracy, identity, and violence.
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- Taxi to Timbuktu - Men from Mali seek work in New York, Paris, and Tokyo.
- Tea Fortunes - The history of tea production for western consumers.
- The Tooth of the Times - A personal study of the impact the government's decision to end agricultural subsidies had on South African farmers.
- Tree Of Survival - Although the drought and starvation suffered by the people on the borders of the Sahara no longer make headlines, the ever-encroaching dunes refuse to go away.
- 21 Up South Africa - Filmed every seven years since 1992, a varied group of children, black and white, rich and poor, now young adults, offer us a vision of the social and political changes since the fall of Apartheid.
- The Two Rivers - Poet Rashaka Ratshitanga guides viewers through South Africa's history before and during the apartheid era.
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- Waiting - Chronicles the remarkable dignity of the Dinka people of Sudan in the midst of famine.
- White City, Black Lives - Five residents of White City, a neighborhood in Soweto, were trained how to use small Hi8 cameras, so that they could tell the story of their own lives, in their own way, to represent themselves to their fellow citizens, and the world.
- Women of the Sahel
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- Zaire, Cycle of the Serpent - Chronicles five weeks of life in Kinshasa, revealing the disparities in the capital city's social fabric.
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