Africa

A visually stunning journey through love, loss and legacy, as directed by the acclaimed Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese.

With destabilising gentleness, Mo Harawe recounts the last hours of the terrorist Farah before his execution.

A creeping, almost invisible toxic waste catastrophe is taking place on Somalia's coast.

Rafiki Fariala's debut explores student life in Bangui, revealing hopes amid challenges in the Central African Republic.

The prophecy of his death sends Muzamil on a journey of defiance and self-discovery in the midst of cultural and political upheaval.

Ivorian Filmmaker Philippe Lacôte created a mesmerizing, violent and hyper-masculine film that worships the power of storytelling.

This travel diary describes the journey of the painter Paul Klee in Egypt between 1928 and 1929 through his letters and his paintings.

This film illuminates the poetic-mystical side of Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of the UN Blue Helmet missions Dag Hammarskjöld.

Deeply humanist drama centred on the strength and resilience of women in the face of a dangerously patriarchal society.

Heidi Specogna (Cahier africain) accompanies the Ethiopian singer Nardos Wude Tesfaw, who combines traditional singing and emancipation, over 5 years.

A lonely security guard uses military technology to search the other side of the world for his soul mate.

This doc is based on newly discovered, powerful archival material documenting the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Africa.

A young woman in Mauritania, is forced to gain weight to meet traditional beauty standards before her upcoming wedding.

Far from the catwalks of the European fashion world, BINTOU runs a successful label in Burkina Faso.

To pay for his children's education, Sierra Leonean farmer Alimamy is taking a gamble: he wants to sell the entire cassava harvest at the next market.

In Brazzaville, 'invisible forces' rule the world. The monk Medard tries to heal the sick victims of evil spells.

In Extension 11, a part of the township of Mamelodi in Pretoria, South Africa, the Mtsweni family hopes for good business during the 2010 World Cup.

A European theater director wants to stage a play about revolution in Burkina Faso and gets caught up in a real revolution.

Photojournalist Camille goes to the Central African Republic to cover a brewing civil war. What she sees there will change her destiny forever.

A tour de force through the African Okavango swamp that blurs the lines between fiction and documentary.

Documentary filmmaker Heinz Emigholz sketches a biography of the French architects and civil engineers Auguste and Gustave Perret and their buildings.

The European self-image, the colonial gaze and the concept of 'noble savages': for decades, René Gardi (1909-2000) shaped our colonial image of Africa

Migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa, often strand in Lybia. But the war-torn country is one of the worst places in the world to be a refugee.

The Aït Seghrouchen, a nomadic people from the windswept Moroccan desert, brave sandstorms, watch livestock and the cell phone towers.

Winner of the Student Oscar 'Best International Documentary': A gold rush reaches the small Ghanaian town of Twifu Praso and changes everyone's life.

The second largest film industry in the world is called Nollywood and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.

During the Syrian war, two young Tunisian women were held as sex slaves by jihadists. The try to mend their lives.

A bankrupt Brazilian filmmaker, with a colonial family history, is haunted by the ghost of a mysterious Mozambican.

The South African public prosecutor Thuli Madonsela is taking on powerful opponents in politics.

Join Atanásio the legendary storyteller, hidden behind a mysterious wooden mask, in the fascinating Mapiko dance.

Kenya is on the brink of a fateful choice, and in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, 300,000 people are hoping for an improvement in their situation.

Motorcycle taxi driver Abel is the sole provider for his family. When his boda boda is stolen, he has to descend into the underworld of Kampala.

50 years after Tanzania's independence from Great Britain, the East African country is still searching for a unifying identity.

After spending years working abroad to support his wife and kids, Senegalese Amin falls in love with another woman.

In the midst of the Mozambican civil war, a train is the only lifeline and becomes the setting for stories of love and hate.

After his father’s sudden death, Iddrisu, a talented medical student, returns to his home village of northern Ghana.

As a child in Kenya, the filmmaker Beryl Magoko was subjected to a life-threatening ritual which many girls undergo even today.

On their flight from the Gulf of Guinea to the Moroccan coast, two people, despite or because of the omnipresent danger, find each other.

A disillusioned reporter and an idealistic young pastor, fight to free a girl accused of witchcraft from the clutches of a superstitious village in the ...

The old top dog Adam has to make way for the next generation. But the hotel lifeguard has an immoral plan up his sleeve to prevent any change.

In some of West Africa's traditional societies, mental illness and epilepsy are still seen as demonic possession.

Atmospheric Kenyan drama about Kaleche, who wakes up in a village of the dead.

A small notebook filled with the courageous testimonies of 300 people reporting on the atrocities of Congolese mercenaries.

Paul Nkamani has made his way from Cameroon through the Sahara to Europe. But even when he arrives in Germany, his future remains uncertain. The Cameroonian ...

Since 2008, albinos in Tanzania have become human targets. Witch doctors offer huge sums of cash for their body parts to be used in magic potions. From ...

Documentary about male violence against women with the stories of those affected from India, Congo and the Balkan.

At the age of 17, the Gambian woman Sadi fled from the genital mutilation. Through the Sahara, Libya and across the Mediterranean to Sicily.

Filmmaker Christine Moderbacher joins her father to help construct a school in Nigeria and examines her role as "foreign helper".

The semi-fictional documentary indie series KINSHASA COLLECTION sheds light on the development of the Congolese metropolis as the capital of new urban ...

The documentary film Iuventa relates the events of a crucial year in the lives of a group of young Europeans all involved in different ways in the Jugend ...

Director Moussaoui interweaves three stories into a multi-faceted portrait of Algeria between slums and luxury apartments, tradition and modernity.

Director Eric Caravaca tells the story of his sister, whose existence was hushed up.

A dramatization of actual events portraying both the contentious rise and success of Jean Senac in Algeria and a friendship that ends in tragedy.

The gripping documentary FIDAI is about a veteran of the Algerian war.

When the protagonist of her next film disappears, Angelika Levi decides investigate her protagonist's life.

The largely unknown story of the GDR contract workers from Namibia.

Filmmaker Melanie Gärtner looks closely at the fate of one family to illuminate the social structures that lead to flight and migration.

After the bloody genocide 20 years ago, Rwanda made a remarkable turnaround, which was primarily made possible by the country's women.

A personal documentary and biography about the history of a royal family in the unusual African country of Botswana.

The story of a single mother in Johannesburg who is caught in a web of lies and deceit after a deadly accident. A contemporary South African thriller.

Can good cause evil? This documentary investigates the effect of Swiss development assistance in Rwanda before the genocide against the Tutsi.

Moussa has swapped his Kalashnikov for a guitar. The former freedom fighter is now a protest singer.

Over a hundred years ago, "Togoland", now the Republic of Togo and part of present-day Ghana, was a colonial possession of the German Empire.

Aurora, an old woman, her Capeverdean housekeeper, and Pilar, all live in the same house in Lisbon. When the old woman dies, the other two learn a secret ...

In the Atacama Desert, scientists are searching for light from the oldest prehistoric times in the universe.

Teenagers try to flee to Europe under life-threatening circumstances, hidden in trucks, where they become the hunted by the border authorities.

BOLINGO, THE FOREST OF LOVE is a documentary about women fighting for survival for themselves and their children.

A gangster movie from Kenya: funny, sad, brutal. It was the first Kenyan film ever entered into the Best Foreign Film Oscar race. Produced by German Star ...

A gangster movie from Kenya: funny, sad, brutal. It was the first Kenyan film ever entered into the Best Foreign Film Oscar race. Produced by German Star ...

A Peruvian comedy about a cold and uptight pawnbroker, who suddenly learns about warmth, love and compassion in the form of a baby and a woman. In short, ...

From the streets of Kinshasa to world fame: the music doc BENDA BILILI! premiered in Cannes and charts the rise of street musicians Staff Benda Bilili ...

15 year old Alex has a secret – through a fluke of nature she is a hermaphrodite, both boy and girl. The first honest film about the topic.

Naima, a doctor, Amina, a graduate, and Leila, a young student, are pursuing their individual routes to an independent life when their paths cross.

After studying in West Germany, Anberber returns to his native Ethiopia as a postgraduate. But he does not recognize his country and get lost in his nostalgic ...

MULLER CORNER AFRICA is a documentary series about a forgotten African Quarter in Berlin-Wedding. Director Martin Helmbrecht meets it diverse inhabitants. Rob ...

Investing in Nigeria is the best kept secret in the world - says Dolapo Ajayi, an insider in this business landscape.