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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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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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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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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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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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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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