Africa

A unique look at three of the greatest builders of the African Savannah: weaver birds, aardvarks and termites. In their spectacular buildings they do not live alone! Many roommates from other species, from small insects, reptiles and birds to large mammals, not only live together — they also benefit from sharing the same roof.

Cycling in Africa: Namibia

Report retracing the military campaigns of the Belgian colonial troops in Africa through geographical maps, title cards, and documentary footage.

Camera de Afrique Is a 1983 documentary. Acclaimed Tunisian filmmaker Férid Boughedir wrote, produced and directed this documentary that recounts 20 years in the history of African cinema through interviews and excerpts from 18 films.

A mockumentary mixing actual private footage of Stalin with reconstructed dramatic sequences featuring doubles.

There is an interlinking history of violent European colonialism and the cultural legacy of ethnographic collections in institutions. This documentary traces the progression of colonial history from the Berlin Conference of 1884-85 to the systematic elimination of cultural traditions, religions and lifeways which would occur sporadically through genocides and warfare until the early 20th century throughout the African continent—surveying the inquiries and movements for historical justice, the relationships between European institutions and colonial violence and following enduring struggles against these organisations to regain what was taken.

For this second special, the French trio only has a budget of 5000€ to find a car that can handle the wilderness of South Africa.

During a French construction project in the Sudan, a military doctor fights against leprosy and the natives seek protection against witch doctors.

This documentary of repressive political realities in Cameroon begins with the 1990 publication of an open letter to President Biya calling for a national conference - and the immediate arrest of the letter's author and publisher. The narration then examines the nation's colonial history, beginning with the first German missionary in 1901, the establishment of schools, French occupation following World War I, the paucity of books written by and published by Cameroonians, and the repression of the CPU, a leftist organization of the 1950s and 1960s. Cameroon and its people are the lark, its feathers plucked first by colonialism and then by native strongmen: 'Alouette, je te plumerai.'

Soviet documentary about the First International Festival of African Art in the city of Dakar in the spring of 1966.

Sacha is a reporter. For 4 months, he traveled for 6,000 kilometers of expeditions and cooking. First on a sailboat in the Mediterranean, then hitchhiking in Morocco or on a freight train in Mauritania, he ended his journey on a motorbike in Senegal. People, places and local recipes are on the menu of this documentary.

Red Africa relates the history of the influence exerted by the USSR over many African states between 1960 and 1990, working from extraordinary archival footage filmed by Soviet operators. The subtle editing of restored images reveals the hidden agenda of the USSR which, under the cloak of generosity, was aspiring to expand its socialist “paradise”.

Siisi is an active and handsome young woman who would have the energy to send the first Estonian space shuttle to Venus. Instead, she flies to Uganda, where she plans to open a caféteria that will provide employment for young people with disabilities.

At the age of 97 Riefenstahl returns to Sudan for one final farewell to the Nuba that she lived with for 8 months and photographed and filmed extensively. Müller documents her return after 23 years away and her reaction to the collapsing culture that she once celebrated so avidly in her photographs.

In 2003 Stocktown made its first documentary series for Swedish Television, a collage of street culture and urban inventiveness in four continents. The sequel Stocktown X South Africa, is a documentary about the contemporary vigorous, social and creative urban cultures of South Africa. When the Swedish directors Teddy Goitom and Benjamin Taft set off on a road trip across South Africa, they met fashion designers, punk bands, artists and guerilla filmmakers who all redefine what it means to be young independent and South African in the twenty-first century.

When Hugo Pratt passed away in 1995, he was holding an Ethiopian cross in his left hand. In order to understand his enduring love of the black continent, Hugo Pratt’s companion, Jean Claude Guilbert, together with a group of like-minded people, searches for traces of him in the Horn of Africa. Thanks to their efforts and invaluable audiovisual archive material, a new picture of this remarkable artist and his attitude towards Africa begins to emerge.

Short documentary on a central african tribe called 'The Chillouks'.

When an uptown Chinese girl gets herself lost in the heart of Africa, she has to evade poachers, predators, and diamonds hungry mercenaries to make it out in one piece.