Films
Featured Films & Documentaries
Best Films
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
(Malawi) Innovation, youth leadership, and rural development
The Great Green Wall
Pan-African climate leadership and resilience
Queen of Katwe
(Uganda): Strategy, perseverance, and youth empowerment
Africa
The Story of a Continent (Basil Davidson) Groundbreaking historical series
Sankofa
Slavery, memory, and identity
Resistance & Liberation
Sarafina
(1992, South Africa): A Soweto teen becomes politicized by apartheid brutality; a musical of youth rebellion.
Cry Freedom
(1987, South Africa): The life of Steve Biko, founder of the Black Consciousness Movement, and his partnership with journalist Donald Woods.
Hotel Rwanda
(2004, Rwanda): A hotel manager uses courage and cunning to save lives during the 1994 genocide.
Sometimes in April
(2005, Rwanda): A powerful reflection on the human and political tragedy of Rwanda’s genocide.
Identity, Memory & Nationhood
Blood Diamond
(2006, Sierra Leone) : Highlights the cost of conflict resources and corruption in West Africa.
The Last King of Scotland
(2006, Uganda): Fictionalized story of Idi Amin’s regime through the eyes of a foreign doctor.
A United Kingdom
(2016, Botswana/UK): Tells the love story between Seretse Khama and Ruth Williams, and the political backlash that followed.
Sankofa
(1993, Ghana/US): A modern woman is spiritually transported back to a plantation in the transatlantic slave trade.
Roots
(1977, Global): Though African-American in production, it connects the Kunta Kinte story to The Gambia’s cultural lineage.
Youth, Power & Potential
Johnny Mad Dog
Queen of Katwe
(2016, Uganda)
The true story of Phiona Mutesi, a chess prodigy from the slums of Kampala.
Ezra
(2007, Sierra Leone)
A former child soldier tries to reintegrate after war; a raw look at trauma and justice.
Yomeddine
(2018, Egypt)
A man with leprosy and a young orphan embark on a road trip across Egypt in search of belonging.