Em Ruanda, no ano de 1994, um conflito político levou à morte quase um milhão de pessoas em cem dias. O mundo fechou os olhos ao genocídio, mas um homem fez a diferença: Paul Rusesabagina era o gerente de um sofisticado hotel na capital, Kigali, quando o conflito começou. Munido apenas de coragem, e com um tímido apoio dos Capacetes Azuis da ONU, abrigou no hotel mais de 1200 adultos e crianças que corriam sério risco de vida.
A lendária atuação de Boris Karloff se tornou um marco nos anais da história do cinema. A múmia Im-Ho-Tep é acidentalmente trazida de volta à vida depois de 3.700 anos. É revelado em flashback que ele era um alto sacerdote, embalsamado vivo por tentar reviver a mulher que amava, após ela ser sacrificada. Vivo de novo, ele sai em busca de seu amor. Hoje, mais de 50 anos depois de que A Múmia foi lançado, gerando inúmeros filhotes - o filme continua como um dos melhores e marcantes de todos os tempos, e não apenas no gênero terror.
A young African boy with a haunting back story starts school in Ireland, and finds out quickly exactly what it means to be the new kid. Winner of Best Narrative Short at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival and nominated for an Oscar.
A Cape Town couple, Katherine and Hugh, are headed to their private mountain getaway, when they pick up a hitchhiker, Liza, who carries a gun. Liza is invited for lunch, but soon the couple can't get rid of her.
Bizet's Carmen gets a modern adaptation. Seducting, provocating, sensual. All the ingredients for a perfect drama. With her charm, Karmen gets out of many situations.
A now-rich woman returns to her poor desert hometown to propose a deal to the populace: her fortune, in exchange for the death of the man who years earlier abandoned her and left her with his child.
A romantic comedy that brings out the intricacies and absurdities of the Nairobi dating scene.
No Nordeste brasileiro, entre os séculos 16 e 17, alguns escravos de um engenho de cana-de-açúcar tramam uma fuga para o Quilombo dos Palmares, uma comunidade de negros fugidos da escravidão, na Serra da Barriga. Entre eles, encontra-se o jovem Ganga Zumba (Antonio Pitanga), futuro líder daquela república revolucionária, a primeira de toda a América.
A 15-year-old Somalian boy meets a 40-year-old Iranian man in a refugee camp in Skåne, in the south of Sweden. With the threat of deportation hanging over them, they decide to take their faiths in their own hands and together they go on a journey in the Swedish summer.
An African travels to Paris to learn about the construction of tall buildings, but is soon taken up with the oddities of French life.
This biographical docudrama traces the life of Dr. Albert Schweitzer, from his birth in Alsace, up to the age of 30 when he made the decision to go to French Equatorial Africa and build his jungle hospital. The latter half of the film encompasses a full day in the hospital-village, following the octogenarian Samaritan in his daily rounds.
The film deals with the judgment of the so-called "compromised", who integrated the colonial apparatus. At Josina Machel school, in an amphitheater with a full audience and balcony, there is a stage where Samora Machel and the members of the Frelimo political committee are located. He records Samora, an impeccable political actor, sometimes histrionic, in the role that he is attributed as the animator of the scene in the trial.
Nwa is in torment for not being able to have children.
A Mauritanian worker, Sidi, works in France. Like most immigrant workers, he is employed to do the most difficult and dangerous jobs. Sidi and his comrades are exploited systematically and permanently, as much by their employers as by their own countrymen who are constantly able to offer false working papers, slums where immigrants buy at high cost their right to sleep. But faced with racism and economic exploitation, immigrant workers communicate, organise...
Uma professora recorre a um homem suspeito para pagar a operação de que a filha precisa urgentemente, e o seu drama acaba inesperadamente sob o olho público.
A brave boy named Temba ventures to find food and water for his drought-striken village. But when he is given a set of magical bones, he uses them to gain riches for himself instead of sharing with his friends.
Follows the story of two young boys and their adventure through the streets of Africa.
A lucid, sincere and intricate political film, it demonstrates how French neocolonialism exploits migrant labor and exerts a cultural imperialism over their minds.