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100 Days |
Rwanda |
Set in the breathtaking natural beauty
of the Rwanda countryside, this fist ever fiction film made about the Rwanda
civil war tells a powerful story of genocide and human survival with compassion
and integrity. |
$25.00 $14.99 |
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100% Arabica |
France |
The joyous and vibrant sound of rai -
a centuries-old Algerian folk music known for its often racy and politically
charged lyric, and influenced over the years by flamenco, jazz and, most recently
rap-gorgeously suffuse 100% Arabica’s culture-clash
story. |
$29.95 $9.99 |
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ADios Momo / Good-Bye Momo |
Uruguay |
Obdulio, an 11-year-old Afro-Uruguayan boy,
can neither read nor write and lives with his sisters and grandmother and helps support them by selling newspapers - One evening, he discovers that the night watchman
at the newspaper is a magical Maestro, who introduces him to the power of
literacy and the meaning of life - Against the backdrop of Uruguay's provocatively
stimulating carnival, the Maestro teaches Obdulio about life through the lyrics
of the Murgas, the songs of the carnival. |
$24.95 $9.72 |
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African Leaders |
Martinique/Algeria & Cape Verde |
Portrait of two leaders of the Pan-African Liberation Movement: Frantz Fanon and Amilcar Cabral. |
$29.95 $11.99 |
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Afro-Cuba: Yesterday & Today - 2 disc set |
Cuba |
Two exciting, colorful films spotlight the African roots of Cuba's culture by focusing on two legendary artists -- Rumbero Papa Montero and Filmmaker Sara Gomez -- in this unique box set. |
$39.95 $13.98 |
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Afro-Latino Music - 2-disc set |
Peru & Colombia |
This two-disc set showcases the influence and importance of African sounds, rhythms, and beats to the music of Latin America. |
$29.95 $15.99 |
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Burning an Illusion |
United Kingdom |
A young British woman comes of age questioning
her middle-class aspirations and security through marriage. |
$29.95 $14.99 |
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Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death |
Belgium |
The Belgian government has denounced this documentary as a "tendentious diatribe" for depicting King Leopold II - still a heroic figure in Belgium - as the moral forebear of Adolf Hitler, responsible for the death of 10 million people in his rapacious exploitation of the Congo. |
$29.95 $9.99 |
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DANY LAFERRIERE: Films from a Poet’s Imagination |
Haiti |
The mystery and wonder of modern-day Haiti come alive in this two-film set based on the work of writer-director Dany Laferriere with the two films How to Conquer America in One Night (96 mins) and On the Verge of a Fever (88 mins). |
$29.95 $8.99 |
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Every Child is Born a Poet: The Life and Work of Piri Thomas |
USA |
A fiery mix of documentary, spoken word
poetry, and dramatizations, Every Child is Born a Poet explores
the life and work of Piri Thomas, the Afro-Cuban-Puerto Rican author of the
classic autobiographical novel DOWN THESE MEAN STREETS (1967). |
$25.00 $14.99 |
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FLMKR |
USA |
A provocative digital feature that dares
to probe the question: What the f*ck is going on in American filmmaking? FLMKR
is a quirky, comic thriller, which traces the odyssey of independent filmmaker
Veronica Davidson, as professional setbacks are amplified by personal betrayals;
then she realizes something more sinister has taken over the film industry in
America. |
$29.95 $14.99 |
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Great African Films - Vol. 1 |
Burkina Faso & Mali |
GREAT AFRICAN FILMS - VOL 1 : Haramuya & Faraw! Mother of the Dunes - Two films are included in the package, making for an entertaining and edifying double feature experience: Drissa Toure’s Haramuya (1995) is a sprawling dramatic comedy about several generations of a traditional Muslim family scraping up against various temptations (crime, movies, drugs, music) of modernity in the city of Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, and Abbdoulaye Ascofare’s Faraw: Mother of the Dunes (1997), from Mali is about a mother of three who struggles to support her family while saving her daughter from becoming the concubine-maid of a French colonialist. |
$39.95 $12.99 |
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Great African Films - Vol. 2 |
USA |
GREAT AFRICAN FILMS, VOLUME 2: Tasuma / Sia, the
Dream of the Python -
The second installment in this series of award-winning
films from Africa includes Kollo Sanou's Tasuma, the Fighter (2003, 90 minutes, French
and Jula with English subtitles), a comic look at the impact of French colonialism
on Africa; Retired from the French army, Burkinabe soldier Sogo Sanou waits patiently
for his pension, which he plans to use to build a grain mill for the women of
his village - Next is Dani Kouyate's Sia, the Dream of the Python (2001,
96 minutes, Bambara with English subtitles), a modern adaptation of a seventh-century
African legend: A poor village decides it must make a human sacrifice to a mystical
snake god to guarantee a better future; Sia, the most beautiful woman in the
village, is chosen for the ritual, but she runs away in revolt - 186 minutes. |
$39.95 $12.99 |
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Great African Films - Vol. 3 |
Chad |
GREAT AFRICAN FILMS, VOLUME 3: Daratt (Dry Season) & The Desert Ark - The third installment in this series of award-winning films from Africa includes Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's Dry Season (2006, 95 minutes, French and Arabic with English subtitles), a subtle and often surprising film from Chad about the relationship between a young man and his father’s killer set at the end of the country’s civil war when the government has granted amnesty to war criminals - and Mohamed Chouikh's The Desert Ark (1997, 90 minutes, Arabic with English subtitles), Two teenagers from opposite sides of the tracks fall in love, their forbidden relationship pitting family against family - 185 minutes. |
$39.95 $12.99 |
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Jamaican Music & Soul |
Jamaica |
'Jamaican Music & Soul' is a dvd that contains 2 documentaries, firstly Jerome Lapperousaz's powerful 'Made in Jamaica'(2006) and 2nd, the classic rasta repatriation story by German film maker Fitz Baumann 'Journey Of The Lion'(1992), which is a beautiful film that has withstood the test of time and continues to be screened at film festivals each year. |
$29.95 $11.99 |
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Lumumba |
France |
Made in the tradition of such true-life
political thrillers as Malcolm X and JFK, Raoul Peck's award-winning Lumumba
is a gripping epic that dramatizes for the first time the rise and fall of legendary
African leader Patrice Lumumba. |
$29.95 $17.97 |
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Masai: The Rain Warriors |
Kenya |
Faced with a drought that endangers the continuity of
their people, Masai elders are convinced that they have been cursed by the Red
God -- the God of Vengeance. |
$24.95 $8.99 |
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Otomo |
Germany |
A powerful film portraying institutionalized
racism and police brutality, Otomo provides a convincing
look at the everyday world of refugees, who are continuously surrounded by tension
and insecurity. |
$29.95 $9.99 |
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Playing Away |
United Kingdom |
The premise of Playing Away
is as simple as its effects are complex: a rural English village invites a West
Indian black cricket team from London’s Brixton section for a weekend
match, and the encounter proves to be rather comical. |
$29.95 $14.99 |
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Race and History in Brazil |
Brazil |
Race and its impact on the art and history of Brazil are highlighted in this two-disc set with Joel Zito Araujo's documentary Denying Brazil (A Negacao do Brasil, 92 mins) and Geraldo Santos Pereira's Aleijadinho: Passion, Glory and Torment (Aleijadinho: Paixao, Gloria e Suplicio, 100 mins. |
$29.95 $12.99 |
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