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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  • Emotional Crack
  • Director: Lancelot Imasuen, Nigeria, 2003, 105 min.
  • Languages: English

  • Crystal always forgives her abusive husband, until she develops a special friendship with a new girlfriend. But tempers flare when their intimate relationship heads down a path where modern values and tradition collide.

  • Emitai
  • Director: Ousmane Sembène, Senegal, 1971, 101 min.
  • Languages: Diola and French

  • During WWII, the French army drafted soldiers and commandeered supplies from even the most remote African villages. Emitai is the deceptively simple story of the silent resistence of the Diola tribe to such requisitions. While the elders pray to Emitai, …
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  • Drum
  • Director: Zola Maseko, South Africa, 2004, 104 min.
  • Languages: English, Afrikaans and German

  • Drum depicts Sophiatown in the 1950s, a vibrant place full of music, love, and laughter, and the breeding ground for resistance. Set in Johannesburg during the era of Big Band Jazz, this film captures a period when a generation of …
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  • The Draughtmen's Clash / Le Damier (Papa National Oyé)
  • Director: Balufu Bavkupa-Kanyinda, Congo, 1996, 40 min.
  • Languages: French

  • In a game of draughts where true champions outwit their opponents with verbal insults as well as kill, can a man from the slums beat Founder and President for Life of his country?