, 1h43 Directed byJustin Chadwick GenresDrama, Biography, Historical, Romance ThemesFilms set in Africa, Films about education ActorsNaomie Harris, Vusi Kunene, Nick Reding Rating73% Kenya, 2003: A radio DJ announces that the Kenyan government is offering free primary school education to all. Maruge (Oliver Litondo), an 84-year-old villager, hears this and decides he wants to educate himself. Arriving at his local school, with a newspaper clipping about this change in policy, he meets Jane (Naomie Harris), the school’s principal, and expresses his desire to learn. Her colleague Alfred (Alfred Munyua), in an effort to get rid of him, tells him all pupils need two exercise books and a pencil.
OriginFrance ActorsFana Mokoena, Vusi Kunene Rating57% Bobedi has just been made CEO of a large mining company in Johannesburg. After celebrating with his wife, Joy, and friends, he and his wife are victims of a violent attack, and Joy is murdered. Frustrated by the pace of justice, Bobedi decides that revenge is his only option. When he eventually catches the murderer, Bobedi must face the terrible secret that connects them across time and history. He must now choose between continuing the never-ending cycle of violence, or stopping it right then and there.
, 1h49 OriginDanemark GenresDrama ThemesFilms set in Africa, Théâtre, Le désert ActorsMiles Anderson, Romane Bohringer, David Bradley, David Calder, Bruce Davison, Brion James Roles Moses Rating62% A group of tourists are stranded in the Namibian desert when their bus loses its way and runs out of fuel. Canned carrots and dew keep the tourists alive, but they are helplessly entrapped, completely cut off from the rest of the world. As courage and moral fibre weaken and relationships grow shaky, Henry, a theatrical manager, persuades the group to put on Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear. As the tourists work their way through Henry's hand-written scripts for an audience of only the sand dunes and one distant, indigenous watcher, real life increasingly begins to resemble the play.
, 1h43 Directed byGavin Hood GenresDrama, Crime ThemesFilms set in Africa ActorsNigel Hawthorne, Gavin Hood, Vusi Kunene Roles Prosecutor Linde Rating64% Sean Raine, an ex-army officer with issues of his own, defends an impoverished young cowherd of killing a baby that he believes is an evil being known as a Tikoloshe.
, 1h33 Directed byIdrissa Ouédraogo GenresDrama ThemesFilms set in Africa ActorsVusi Kunene Roles Kini Rating70% Somewhere in southern Africa, in a huge region populated by poor peasants, two friends dream of a better life, far from their village, and decide to leave and make their dream come true. To leave, they attempt to repair an old car with second-hand spare parts, but their family and friends make fun of them. Little by little, their impetus dies down and so does their friendship. Finally, bitterness and jealousy put an end to the friendship between the two men and they become fierce enemies.
, 2h20 Directed bySouleymane Cissé OriginFrance GenresDrama ThemesFilms set in Africa, Films about racism ActorsBalla Moussa Keïta, Vusi Kunene Rating68% En Afrique du Sud, une adolescente, Nandi, grandit exploitée au milieu des brimades faites aux Noirs. Un jour, un policier tue son père. Terrorisée, elle s'enfuit. Elle parvient à traverser la frontière et des nomades l'adoptent. Elle parvient dans un pays où elle peut faire des études d'ethnologie.