African Film Festival Inc. is now offering you the opportunity to acquire critically acclaimed and historically significant cinematic works from Africa and African Diaspora. Our collection features some of the most dynamic directors of the twentieth and twenty-first century. Book and DVD media highlight the multi-layered identities and experiences that make up a global narrative for people of African origin and reveal universal paths in their address of the human experience.

DVDs and Books for purchase

Ousmane Sembène, Senegal, 2001, 121 min.
  • Faat Kiné
  • Director: Ousmane Sembène, Senegal, 2001, 121 min.
  • Languages: French and Wolof

  • Sembène tackles the question of women’s lives in contemporary Dakar, Senegal’s bustling capital. It’s a warm, often funny story of a single mother, her two children, two ex-husbands, aged mother and assorted friends. Faat Kine, the manager of a sparkling …
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Mandabi (DVD cover), 1968, 90 min.
  • Mandabi
  • Director: Ousmane Sembène, Senegal, 1968, 90 min
  • Languages: Wolof with English subtitles

  • Sembène’s second feature unlocked for the first time on film the complex daily world of modern Africa. This deceptively simple story of a man who receives a money order and, in his attempts to cash it, encounters an intimidating barrage …
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