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- DirectorRachid BoucharebStarsSamy NaceriRoschdy ZemSami BouajilaDuring World War II, four North African men enlist in the French army to liberate that country from German oppression, and to fight French discrimination.
- DirectorNeill BlomkampStarsSharlto CopleyDavid JamesJason CopeViolence ensues after an extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth finds a kindred spirit in a government agent exposed to their biotechnology.
- DirectorJamie UysStarsN!xauMarius WeyersSandra PrinslooA comic allegory about a traveling Bushman who encounters modern civilization and its stranger aspects, including a clumsy scientist and a band of revolutionaries.
- DirectorGavin HoodStarsPresley ChweneyagaeMothusi MaganoIsrael Matseke-ZuluSix days in the violent life of a young Johannesburg gang leader.
- DirectorMarwan HamedStarsAdel EmamNour El-SherifYoussraMeditations on corruption, fundamentalism, prostitution, homosexuality, and drugs in central Cairo.
- DirectorMoustapha AkkadStarsAnthony QuinnIrene PapasMichael AnsaraThis epic historical drama chronicles the life and times of Prophet Muhammad and serves as an introduction to early Islamic history.
- DirectorOusmane SembeneStarsFatoumata CoulibalyMaimouna Hélène DiarraSalimata TraoréWhen a woman shelters a group of girls from suffering female genital mutilation, she starts a conflict that tears her village apart.
- DirectorOusmane SembeneStarsMbissine Thérèse DiopAnne-Marie JelinekRobert FontaineA black girl from Senegal becomes a servant in France.
- DirectorOusmane SembeneStarsThierno LeyeMyriam NiangSeune SambA corrupt politician is cursed with impotence on the night of his third wedding after embezzling 100 tons of rice.
- DirectorDjibril Diop MambétyStarsMagaye NiangMyriam NiangChristoph ColombMory, a cowherd, and Anta, a university student, try to make money in order to go to Paris and leave their boring past behind.
- DirectorNacer KhemirStarsParviz ShahinkhouMaryam HamidGolshifteh FarahaniThe story of a blind dervish Bab'Aziz and his spirited granddaughter, Ishtar, together they wander the desert in search of a great reunion of dervishes that takes place just once every thirty years.
- DirectorNacer KhemirStarsNacer KhemirSoufiane MakniNoureddine KasbaouiA teacher is assigned to a remote desert village that is obsessed with a mysterious buried treasure and whose children are cursed to wander the desert.
- DirectorKamal SelimStarsFatma RouchdiMokhtar OsmanZaki RostomThe story of Mohammed the son of a barber who has recently got his degree, his lover Fatma, his rivel Al-Etr.
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsFaten HamamahOmar SharifZaki RostomA rich landlord floods and destroys a village on purpose to prevent the people living there from making a profit off their crops. What he doesn't know is that his own daughter is in love with Ahmed, a young man from the village.
- DirectorHenry BarakatStarsAbdel Halim HafezImaneMahmoud Al MelejiA broken marriage that was caused by a drunken father. A mother was forced to raise her son with another man who also has a son. Days and nights went past and they grew up, they were different kind of step brothers. When one brother was driving drunk had hit and run accident. An innocent person who was a friend got the blame. So father decided to protect his own son who was guilty. The mother doesn't want her own innocent son to suffer. The young man decided to find his own lost drunken father to fight for him.
- DirectorSalah AbouseifAhmad El-SabawiAmin Yousseff GhurabStarsTahiyyah KaryukaShukri SarhanShadiaA young man from the country arrives in Cairo to finish his education. His landlady, a widow and successful businesswoman in the quarter of the Citadel, seduces him. Although she teaches him much about life she also makes him forget his obligations to his family, his studies, even his religion. When he tries to put her aside she attempts to force him to give up everything in which he believes.
- DirectorRené VautierStarsRené VautierDocumentary about the living conditions in a small Ivorian village during French colonization.
- DirectorMamadou SarrPaulin VieyraStarsPaulin VieyraMamadou SarrMarpessa DawnPaulin Vieyra and his collaborator Mamadou Sarr explore the lives of Africans living in Paris.
- DirectorMed HondoStarsRobert LiensolThéo LégitimusAmbroise M'BiaA native of Mauritania is delighted when he is chosen to work in Paris. However, he is disappointed when he sees racial inequity as blacks are relegated to manual labor while less skilled whites are given preferential treatment.
- DirectorSouleymane CisséStarsIssiaka KaneAoua SangareNiamanto SanogoA young man with magical powers journeys to his uncle to request help in fighting his sorcerer father.
- DirectorCheick Oumar SissokoStarsIssa Falaba TraoréBalla Moussa KeitaHabib DembéléDocuments the rise and fall of a cruel and despotic village chief Guimba, and his son Jangine in a fictional village in the Sahel of Mali.
- DirectorDjibril Diop MambétyStarsMansour DioufAmi DiakhateMamadou Mahourédia GueyeDramaan is the most popular man in Colobane, but when a woman from his past, now exorbitantly wealthy, returns to the town, things begin to change.
- DirectorSarah MaldororStarsElisa AndradeDomingos de OliveiraJean M'VondoA man is wrongfully arrested and tortured to death after he is suspected of being part of a revolutionary group.
- DirectorFranco SacchiThe story of Nigeria's home grown film industry, which is gaining recognition as a cultural and cinematic phenomenon.
- DirectorFérid BoughedirA look at 20 years of African Cinema. The Featured extracts are: 'Les Bicots-Negres'(d. Med Hondo) 'Borom Serret' (d. Sembene Ousmane)1966 'La Noire de...' [Black Girl] (d. Sembene Ousmane)1966 'Soleil O' [Sun O] (d. Med Hondo) (Mauritania)1969 'Saitane' (d. Oumarou Gonda) (Niger)1973 'The Money Order'1968 'Amanie' (d. Gnoan M'Bala) (Ivory Coast) 'Ceddo' (d. Sembene Ousmane)1977 'Touki Bouki' (d. Djibril Diop-Mambety) (Senegal)1973 'Muna Moto' (d. Dikongue-Pipa) (Cameroun)1975 'News from the Village' (d. Safi Faye) (Senegal)1975 'XALA' (d. Sembene Ousmane)1975 'Baara' (d. Souleymane Cisse) (Mali)1978 'The Chapel' (d. J.M. Tchissoukou) (Congo)1980 'L'Exile' [The Exile] (d. Oumarou Ganda)1980 'Ajani Ogun' (d. Ola Balogun) (Nigeria)1976 'Djeli' (d. Fadika Kramo Lancine) (Ivory Coast)1981 'Wend Kuuni' (d. Gaston Kabore) (Upper Volta)1981 'Fenye' [The Wind] (d. Souleymane Cisse) (Mali)1982