Monthly Archives: February 2012

  • Fantan Fanga
  • Director: Ladji Diakité and Adama Drabo, Mali, 2009, 90 min.
  • Languages: Bambara
  • A gang of headhunters decapitate an albino villager, hoping that his body parts will make them rich, especially the head. Creating controversy, the other villages believe this will only bring misfortune. Which will it be, riches or misfortune?

  • Fanon: Black Skin White Mask
  • Director: Isaac Julien, UK, 1997, 70 min.
  • Languages: English
  • A complex, perceptive meditation on the life and legacy of the Caribbean psychiatrist and political activist whose writings have become essential texts for liberation movements everywhere.

  • Faces of Women / Visages de femmes
  • Director: Désiré Ecaré, Ivory Coast, 1985, 105 min.
  • Languages: French
  • Structured around the rhythm of a dance, filmmaker Désiré Ecaré weaves a rich tapestry of textures and cadences of life in the Ivory Coast in his film Faces of Women. This film displays in a comedy of manners the changing …
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  • Ezra
  • Director: Newton I. Aduaka, Nigeria / France, 2007, 110 min.
  • Languages: English
  • One fateful morning, as seven-year-old Ezra skips on his way to school, he is kidnapped by rebels and taken into the jungle to be trained as a soldier. Seven years later, Ezra sits in front of a Truth and Reconciliation …
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