Browse the AFF Collection
- 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 …
read more
- 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 …
read more
- 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 …
read more
- 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 …
read more
