The AFF Films Archive is a catalogue of titles presented by AFF since 1993, when AFF established the first New York African Film Festival, and includes titles specially selected for AFF programs each year. The Films Archive contains film synopses, linked to directors’ biographies and filmographies. Find a film, director, or actor using our website search form in the menu above. Sort the title listing below by alphabetical order or by selecting a letter key from the “tag cloud” to the side.

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  • Blue Sky
  • Director: Patrick Meunier, Zimbabwe, 2000, 52 min.
  • Languages: English

  • In the Fifties, there were ten singers of African Jazz in Bulawayo, a beautiful town in then Southern Rhodesia. They had created two groups, The Cool Four and the Golden Delicious Rhythm Crooners, and they sang all night in the …
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  • The Blue Eyes of Yonta / Udju azul de Yonta
  • Director: Flora Gomes, Guinea-Bissau, 1992, 90 min.
  • Languages: Creole and Portuguese

  • Yonta is a beautiful young woman growing up in the city of Bissau a generation after her nation has gained independence. She develops a secret crush on Vincente, a good friend of her family and a hero of their country’s …
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  • The Bloodettes / Les Saignantes
  • Director: Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Cameroon, 2005, 92 min.
  • Languages: French

  • After an eight-year absence, maverick director Jean-Pierre Bekolo returns with his magnum opus, Les Saignantes. This superbly photographed, stylishly edited, and tastefully scored film is about two young femme fatales who set out to rid a futuristic country of its …
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  • Blood Is Not Fresh Water
  • Director: Theo Eshetu, Ethiopia / Italy / UK, 1998, 56 min.
  • Languages: English, Amharic, and Italian

  • Blood Is Not Fresh Water is the documentary of a passionate journey in Ethiopia, the director’s land of origin. Through a portrait of the filmmaker’s grandfather, Ato Tekle-sadik Mekuria, Ethiopia’s most renowned historian, the story attempts to bypass Eurocentric concepts …
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