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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John Akomfrah, United Kingdom/Ghana
  • Last Angel of History
  • Director: John Akomfrah, United Kingdom / Ghana, 1995, 45min.

  • This film displays, in sci-fi drama/documentary fashion, an Afro-futurism and black unpopular culture. A computer hacker enters a Faustian pact in which he trades his soul for secrets of his future. Featuring interviews with Ishmael Reed, Goldie, George Clinton, Derrick …
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Llewellyn Smith, USA, 2006, 57 min.
  • Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness
  • Director: Llewellyn Smith, USA, 2006, 57min.

  • Brilliant, ambitious, high-minded, manipulative, pioneering, the meaning of Herskovits himself as scholar raises questions powerfully relevant today – who has access to the “production of knowledge?” What is objective study” and when does it become politicized? What happens when the …
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Battle for the Hearts and Minds
  • Battle for the Hearts and Minds
  • Director: Shani Peters, USA, 2006, 10 min.
  • Languages: English

  • Battle for the Hearts and Minds depicts a battle of words between historical black legends W.E.B. DuBois and Marcus Garvey. Relating elements of their documented 1920s era conflict to later century hip-hop and hip-hop beef, the ongoing ëfight’ for social …
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Jack Lewis, South Africa, 2007, 83 min.
  • Brothers in Arms
  • Director: Jack Lewis, South Africa, 2007, 83 min.
  • Languages: English, Afrikaans, Spanish and Portuguese

  • Brothers in Arms is a biopic of the life of Ronald Herboldt, the only South African, and as Herbolt attests, the only African to participate in the Cuban Revolution. This incredible story shows how Ronald found himself in Cuba in …
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