Movies: Big World Cinema

  • 2018
    Rafiki

    Rafiki (2018)

    Rafiki

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    Kena and Ziki long for something more. Despite the political rivalry between their families, the girls resist and remain close friends, supporting each other to pursue their dreams in a conservative society. When love blossoms between them, the two g...

    Rafiki
  • 2023
    Omen

    Omen (2023)

    Omen

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    Between Brussels, Kinshasa and Lubumbashi, Augure borrows from magic realism to paint a portrait of “undesirables” and “sorcerers” through the intertwined stories of protagonists of different genders and generations, confronted with the prejudice and...

    Omen
  • 2014
    Stories of Our Lives

    Stories of Our Lives (2014)

    Stories of Our Lives

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    Created by the members of a Nairobi-based arts collective — who have removed their names from the film for fear of reprisal — this anthology film that dramatizes true-life stories from Kenya’s oppressed LGBTQ community is both a labour of love and a ...

    Stories of Our Lives
  • 2014
    Beats of the Antonov

    Beats of the Antonov (2014)

    Beats of the Antonov

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    The story of the people of the Blue Nile and Nuba Mountains in Sudan, showing how they deal with civil war. Traditionally music has always been part of daily life in these areas, but now, it has a new role in a society challenge by war....

    Beats of the Antonov
  • 2024
    Tug of War

    Tug of War (2024)

    Tug of War

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    A coming-of-age political love story set in the final years of British colonial Zanzibar. Denge, a young freedom fighter meets Yasmin, an Indian-Zanzibari woman in the middle of the night as she is on her way to be married. Passion and revolution esc...

    Tug of War
  • 2021
    The Colonel's Stray Dogs

    The Colonel's Stray Dogs (2021)

    The Colonel's Stray Dogs

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    In 1981, seven Libyan exiles formed the core opposition group to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Thirty years later, they are back to their country only to inherit the mess he left. The film is an intricate blend of rare first-hand accounts, propaganda arch...

    The Colonel's Stray Dogs
  • 2018
    The Roundup

    The Roundup (2018)

    The Roundup

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    A Kasha is a universal offbeat love story set in a time of civil war - but the war is in Sudan and it is happening right now. We follow Adnan, an AK47-loving rebel, his long-suffering love interest, Lina, and the armydodging Absi, over a fateful 24 h...

    The Roundup
  • 2018
    Silas

    Silas (2018)

    Silas

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    A profile of the life of Liberian activist Silas Siakor, a tireless crusader against illegal logging and a symbol of resistance for a new generation....

    Silas
  • 2015
    Life in Progress

    Life in Progress (2015)

    Life in Progress

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    Life in Progress
  • 2006
    Beyond Freedom

    Beyond Freedom (2006)

    Beyond Freedom

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    An animated documentary celebrating the end of Apartheid and a unique cultural collaboration between artists and animators in South Africa....

    Beyond Freedom