Touki Bouki

Touki-Bouki is a stylistically sophisticated African Bonnie and Clyde story about a young couple who yearn to live the glamorous life in France, but must first pull off a couple of heists to buy their tickets out of Dakar.

$29.95

H-2 Worker

H-2 Worker reveals the systematic exploitation of Caribbean laborers by the Florida sugar industry from World War II through the 1990s.

$28.95

Mandabi

An unemployed Ibrahima faces numerous difficulties with the Senegalese bureaucracy when trying to cash a money order. This film explores themes of neocolonialism, religion, corruption, and relationships in Senegalese society.

$29.95

Manuscripts of Timbuktu

The Manuscripts of Timbuktu critiques the limited view about Timbuktu by firmly demonstrating that it was a leading cultural, economic, scientific and religious center that made a significant and lasting impact on Africa and the entire world.

$24.95

Black Girl / La Noire de…

Diouana, a beautiful and ambitious young woman, secures a job as a babysitter with a French couple working in Dakar. In France, she finds herself a virtual prisoner and exploited. Her silent rebellion is strangely effective and foreshadows the film's climax and ominous ending.

$29.95

Birago Diop, Conteur

A short film about the famous Senegalese writer and poet. While young writers of Antillean and African descent chose poetry to express the search for their identity within the Negritude movement, Birago Diop adopted African folklore as a mode of expression.

$30

A Nation is Born

In 1958, Vieyra set up a special office dedicated to film in Senegal, which, after the independence (1960), became the base of the country’s cinematography. A Nation is Born is a historical portrait of Vieyra’s homeland.

$30

L’envers du décor – Ousmane Sembène: The Making of Ceddo

Paulin Vieyra captures Ousmane Sembène, one of the greatest filmmakers of Africa, during the filming of Ceddo.

$30

Woubi Chéri

Woubi Chéri is a 1998 French/Ivorian documentary that shows a few days in the life of various members of the gay and transgender community in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

$24.95

Faat Kiné

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.

$29.95

Guew Bi: Sabar Dances of Senegal

This film, explores sabar, an astonishing contemporary art form deeply rooted in African tradition, shot in the streets of Dakar, with the participation of Master Drummer Doudou Ndiaye Rose.

$20

A Trip to the Country

With irony and humor, this film questions the validity of development discourse which deems all things European to be modern and all things African to be archaic.

$26.95

Alex’s Wedding

Unlike any wedding video you've ever seen, Teno's sharp eye captures every uncomfortable moment in a polygamous marriage ceremony.

$26.95

Paulin Vieyra 7-DVD Box Set

Vieyra and his collaborator Mamadou Sarr explore the lives of Africans living in Paris, poetically evoking the ambiguities and questions about identity that plague students educated in colonialist spaces, removed from their comfort zone.

$500

Bamako

Set in the courtyard of a mud walled house in Bamako, the capitol city of Mali, the intimate personal story of an African couple on the verge of breaking up is told alongside very public political proceedings.

$29.95

Jazz on a Summer’s Day

Noted photographer Bert Stern filmed a virtual Who's Who of jazz and blues at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival: including Thelonius Monk, Louis Armstrong, Dinah Washington and Mahalia Jackson.

$29.95

Life and Debt

This highly acclaimed film about the relationship between Jamaican poverty and the practices of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund features interviews with both world leaders and sweatshop workers in order to highlight the consequences of globalization.

$29.95

Afro@digital

An exploration of how, in 2001, digital technology was changing the landscape of African art and culture, and how it could be used to serve the interest of Africa at large.

$26.95

Dôlé

The tribulations of five youths start this film. Libreville is home to Mougler and his friends, Baby Lee, Joker, Jackson and Bezingo. The boys are left to fend for themselves and decide to rob a dôlé stand, a new game of chance in which you can become a millionaire.

$26.95

The Hero

The Hero (O Herói) is the story of Angola, a nation torn apart by forty years of uninterrupted war, and now trying imperfectly but courageously to piece itself back together.

$26.95

Karmen Geï

Like every Carmen, Karmen Geï is about the conflict between infinite desire for freedom and the laws, conventions, languages, the human limitations which constrain that desire. Since this is an African Carmen, freedom necessarily has a political dimension.

$26.95

Keïta! The Voice of the Griot

Keita tells the story of Djeliba Kouyate, an old griot who charged in the twilight of his life to recount to young Mabo Keita the origin of his name, a name that carries with it an epic saga of the founder of the Madingo Empire.

$26.95

Mapantsula

Mapantsula tells the story of Panic, a petty gangster who inevitably becomes caught up in the growing anti-apartheid struggle and has to choose between individual gain and a united stand against the system.

$26.95

Forgiveness

Tertius Coetzee, an ex-cop granted amnesty for his crimes by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, seeks out the family of one of his apartheid-era victims to ask them for forgiveness.

$30

Africa Dreaming

This film explores the impact of the modern world on the traditional male society of the Maghreb. It is a film about men who prefer to live life as an abstract game and the free-spirited woman who changes everything.

$26.95

The Prodigal Son

The Prodigal Son retraces the lost history of the Orderson family. The filmmaker’s great grandfather, Joseph Orderson was of the generation of newly emancipated slaves, who with fellow West Indians left Barbados to settle all over the world.

$20

Cosmic Africa

Cosmic Africa and African astronomer, Thebe Medupe explore Africa's ancient astronomy history, while unveiling the deep connection humans have with the cosmos.

$30

Pieces d’identites

A timeless tale of an old king, his beautiful wayward daughter, a dragon of sorts, and a prince charming. It even has a happy ending. But Pieces d’Identités also raises troubling issues of identity in the Diaspora.

$24.95

Ça Twiste à Poponguine

Ca Twiste a Poponguine is set in the mid '60s and follows the exploits of two gangs of teenagers who adopt Western ways.

$24.95

Language You Cry In

The Language You Cry In tells an amazing scholarly detective story reaching across hundreds of years and thousands of miles from 18th century Sierra Leone to the Gullah people of present-day Georgia.

$24.95

Mortu Nega

This story, set in 1973, follows Dominga as she journeys to join her husband, Sako, a liberation fighter. While her path to the front reveals the ravages of five centuries of colonialism, her return home will be amidst the joy of hard-won freedom.

$24.95

When the Stars Meet the Sea

Destiny is the key to belief systems of the Merina people, but Kapila, the crippled hero, embarks on a journey which ultimately leads him to embrace a future guided by love and imagination.

$24.95

La Vie Est Belle

La Vie est belle takes us inside the vibrant music scene of Kinshasha, Zaire's exhilarating and exasperating capital of four million.

$24.95

Monday’s Girls

Two young Wakirke women offer opposing attitudes toward the Iria, the ritual by which Nigerian women are recognized as being suitable for marriage.

$24.95

Tableau Ferraille

Daam, an idealistic young politician, must choose between the social paradigms exemplified by his two wives. Ganerisi is a dignified village lady, and Kine, a modern, western-educated woman.

$24.95

All About Darfur

Director Taghreed Elsanhouri talks to everyday Sudanese in outdoor tea shops, markets, refugee camps and living rooms about how deeply rooted prejudices could suddenly burst into a wild fire of ethnic violence.

$24.95

Guimba the Tyrant

This film tells the story of a small West African village ruled by a tyrant and his son. The movie starts and ends as a folk story told by a narrator.

$24.95

When Silence is Golden

When Silence is Golden follows the film’s director in her quest to lift the silence on the gold mining activities of a Canadian mining company near a small town in Western Ghana.

$20

Hyenas

Mambéty adapts a timeless parable of human greed into a biting satire of today's Africa–betraying the hopes of independence for the false promises of Western materialism.

$24.95

Thunderbolt

Thunderbolt is woven around Ngozi, a young elegant Igbo lady and Yinka a young man of Yoruba origin who meet and fall in love during the National Youth Service.

$24.95

Kemtiyu, Cheikh Anta (DVD)

Kemtiyu is a portrait of this trailblazing scholar—venerated by some, derided by others, and unknown to most—an honest, enlightened political figure who had an insatiable thirst for science and knowledge.

$30

Lamb

This documentary captures the sport of traditional wrestling, called ‘lamb’ in Wolof, popular in Senegal.

$30

Afrique sur Seine

Vieyra and his collaborator Mamadou Sarr explore the lives of Africans living in Paris, poetically evoking the ambiguities and questions about identity that plague students educated in colonialist spaces, removed from their comfort zone.

$30