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Earth (2007)
, 1h36Directed by Alastair Fothergill
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Documentary
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about animals, Environmental films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Documentary films about environmental issues, Documentary films about nature, Children's films
Actors Constantino Romero, Anggun, Patrick Stewart, James Earl Jones, Ken Watanabe, Ulrich Tukur
Over the course of a calendar year, Earth takes the viewer on a journey from the North Pole in January to the South in December, revealing how plants and animals respond to the power of the sun and the changing seasons. The film focuses on three particular species, the polar bear, African bush elephant and humpback whale.
5 Broken Cameras (2011)
, 1h34Origin Israel
Genres Drama, War, Documentary, Crime
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about films, Films about religion, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentary films about law, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about politics, Documentary films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism, Documentary films about films
There are five cameras — each with its own story. When his fourth son, Gibreel, is born in 2005, self-taught cameraman Emad Burnat, a Palestinian villager, gets his first camera. At the same time in his village of Bil’in, the Israelis begin bulldozing village olive groves to build a barrier to separate Bil'in from the Jewish Settlement Modi'in Illit. The barrier's route cuts off 60% of Bil'in farmland and the villagers resist this seizure of more of their land by the settlers.
The Visual Bible: Matthew (1993)
, 4h25Directed by Regardt van den Bergh
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Films based on the Bible, Portrayals of Jesus in film, Films about virginity
Actors Bruce Marchiano, Richard Kiley, Sean Michael, Patrick Mynhardt
In Palestine during the Roman Empire, Jesus Christ of Nazareth travels around the country with his disciples preaching to the people about God and salvation of their souls. He claims to be the son of God and the Christ. He is arrested by the Romans and crucified. He rises from the dead after three days.
God Grew Tired of Us (2007)
, 1h26Genres Documentary
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about children, Films about immigration, Documentary films about law, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Nicole Kidman
God Grew Tired Of Us chronicles the arduous journey of three young Southern Sudanese men, John Bul Dau, Daniel Pach and Panther Bior, to the United States where they strive for a brighter future. As young boys in the 1980s, they had walked a thousand miles to escape their war-ridden homeland, and then had to make another arduous journey to escape Ethiopia.
Workingman's Death (2005)
, 2h6Directed by Michael Glawogger
Origin Austria
Genres Documentary
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about the labor movement, Documentary films about politics, Documentaire sur le monde du travail, Political films
Le film montre cinq exemples de travail physique intense dans des conditions extrêmes dans différents lieux dans le monde. Il est divisé en cinq épisodes qui se déroulent en Ukraine, en Indonésie, au Nigeria, au Pakistan et en Chine. Les personnes filmées parlent dans leurs langues d'origine : pachto, yoruba, allemand, anglais, igbo, indonésien, javanais, mandarin, russe.
Bouncing Cats (2010)
, 1h15Directed by Nabil Elderkin
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films set in Africa, Dance films, Films about children, Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Hip hop films, Musical films
Actors Common, Mos Def
Bouncing Cats is the story of one man's attempt to create a better life for the children of Uganda using the unlikely tool of hip-hop with a focus on b-boy culture and breakdance. Abraham "Abramz" Tekya, a Ugandan b-boy and an AIDS orphan creates a free workshop teaching youth b-boy culture to 300 disenfranchised kids living in precarious conditions in Kampala in 2006, and in Gulu in North Uganda. Uganda is often referred to as one of the worst places on earth to be a child.
Directed by Shirley Frimpong-Manso
Genres Drama
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Yvonne Okoro, Joselyn Dumas, John Dumelo, Naa Ashorkor
To Shoot an Elephant (2009)
, 1h52Genres Documentary
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion, Documentary films about law, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about politics, Documentary films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Captain Phillips (2013)
, 2h14Directed by Paul Greengrass
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Documentary, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Seafaring films, Films about terrorism, Transport films, Pirate films, United States Armed Forces in films, Films about hijackings
Actors Tom Hanks, Catherine Keener, Max Martini, David Warshofsky, Yul Vazquez, Barkhad Abdi
Richard Phillips (Tom Hanks) takes command of the MV Maersk Alabama, an unarmed container ship from the Port of Salalah in Oman, with orders to sail through the Gulf of Aden to Mombasa, Kenya. Wary of pirate activity off the coast of the Horn of Africa, he and First Officer Shane Murphy (Michael Chernus) order strict security precautions on the vessel and carry out practice drills. During a drill, the vessel is chased by Somali pirates in two skiffs, and Phillips calls for help. Knowing that the pirates are listening to radio traffic, he pretends to call a warship, requesting immediate air support. One skiff turns around in response, and the other – manned by four heavily armed pirates led by Abduwali Muse (Barkhad Abdi) – loses engine power trying to steer through the Maersk Alabama 's wake.
Breaker Morant (1980)
, 1h47Directed by Bruce Beresford
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films, Films about capital punishment, Films based on plays
Actors Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, John Waters, Bryan Brown, Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Bud Tingwell
Three Australian Army officers of the Bushveldt Carbineers serving in South Africa during the Second Boer War (1899–1902) are being court-martialed for war crimes. Lieutenants Harry "Breaker" Morant, Peter Handcock, and George Witton are accused of the murder of one Boer POW and the subsequent massacre of six more. Lieutenants Morant and Handcock are further charged with the sniper-style slaying of a German Lutheran minister, the Rev. Daniel Heese. Their defense counsel, Major J. F. Thomas, has had only one day to prepare their defense.
, 3h14Directed by Rex Ingram, Rex Ingram, Fred Niblo, Christy Cabanne, Charles Brabin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Portrayals of Jesus in film, Films about virginity
Actors Ramón Novarro, Francis X. Bushman, May McAvoy, Betty Bronson, Claire McDowell, Kathleen Key
Ben-Hur is a wealthy Jew and boyhood friend of the powerful Roman Tribune, Messala. When an accident leads to Ben-Hur's arrest, Messala, who has become corrupt and arrogant, makes sure Ben-Hur and his family are jailed and separated.
Sans Soleil (1983)
, 1h40Directed by Chris Marker
Origin France
Genres Science fiction, Documentary
Themes Films set in Africa, Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Florence Delay, Arielle Dombasle, Kim Novak, James Stewart, Charlotte Kerr, Alexandra Stewart
Le film est construit autour du discours d'un cameraman fictif, Sandor Krasna, rédacteur de lettres lues tout au long du film par Florence Delay. Dans ses écrits, il va traiter successivement du temps, de la mémoire, de la fragilité humaine face aux séismes du Japon ou encore face à la famine, menace constante au Cap Vert ou en Guinée-Bissau. Le cinéaste voyage alors aux « deux pôles extrêmes de la survie » tel qu'il le dit lui-même. Il montrera non pas les difficultés pour ces sociétés à s'en sortir, mais plutôt leur façon de vivre et d'exister au-delà de ce qui peut leur coûter la vie. Car comme il l'annonce : « Moi, ce que je veux vous montrer, ce sont les fêtes de quartier ».
Sometimes in April (2005)
, 2h20Directed by Raoul Peck
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Idris Elba, Oris Erhuero, Carole Karemera, Debra Winger, Eriq Ebouaney, Noah Emmerich
Rwanda, 1994. Le film raconte, jour après jour, la vie d'une famille rwandaise. Le mari est hutu, la femme et les deux enfants tutsi. Lors de la mort du président, tous les hommes hutu sont réquisitionnés pour éradiquer la population tutsi. Parmi eux Augustin Muganza, un hutu modéré qui sert dans l'armée rwandaise, et son frère Honoré, animateur de la tristement célèbre Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines.
Live and Become (2005)
, 2h20Directed by Radu Mihaileanu
Origin Israel
Genres Drama
Themes Films about adoption, Films set in Africa, Films about alcoholism, Films about children, Films about immigration, Films about religion, La précarité, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Sirak M. Sabahat, Yaël Abecassis, Roschdy Zem, Lana Ettinger, Patrick Descamps, Hervé Pauchon
Shlomo, an Ethiopian boy, is placed by his Christian mother with an Ethiopian Jewish woman whose child has died. This woman, who will become his adoptive mother, is about to be airlifted from a Sudanese refugee camp to Israel during Operation Moses in 1984. His birth mother, who hopes for a better life for him, tells him “Go, live, and become,” as he leaves her to board the plane. The film tells of his growing up in Israel and how he deals with the secrets he carries: not being Jewish and having left his birth mother.