Filmography
*African Film Collection, PCC Library
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| 1991 | Camp at Thiaroye* | Ousmane Sembène | Senegal |
| Yeelen* | Souleymane Cissé | Mali | |
| La Vie Est Belle* | Mweze Ngangura | Congo/Zaire | |
| Faces of Women | Désiré Ecaré | Ivory Coast | |
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| 1992 | Finzan* | Cheick Oumar Sissoko | Mali |
| Xala | Ousmane Sembène | Senegal | |
| Yaaba* | Idrissa Ouédraogo | Burkina Faso | |
| Angano Angano* | César Paes | Madagascar | |
| My Dinner With the Devil Snake* | Jim Blashfield | USA | |
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| 1993 | Tilai/The Law* | Idrissa Ouédraogo | Burkina Faso |
| Harvest 3000 Years | Haile Gerima | Ethiopia | |
| Sango Malo* | Bassek ba Kobhio | Cameroon | |
| Zan Boko* | Gaston Kaboré | Burkina Faso | |
| Wend Kuuni* | Gaston Kaboré | Burkina Faso | |
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| 1994 | Neria* | Godwin Mawuru | Zimbabwe |
| Touki Bouki* | Djibril Diop Mambety | Senegal | |
| Kasarmu Ce* | Saddik Balewa | Nigeria | |
| Guelwaar* | Ousmane Sembène | Senegal | |
| Nightmare in Paradise | Hilton Fyle | Sierra Leone | |
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| 1995 | Sankofa* | Haile Gerima | Ghana/Jamaica/USA |
| More Time | Isaac Mabhikwa | Zimbabwe | |
| Samba Traoré | Idrissa Ouédraogo | Burkina Faso | |
| Mandabi | Ousmane Sembène | Senegal | |
| These Hands* | Flora M’mbugu-Schelling | Tanzania | |
| Women with Open Eyes* | Anne-Laure Folly | Togo | |
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| 1996 | Keita* | Dani Kouyaté | Burkina Faso |
| The Blue Eyes of Yonta* | Flora Gomes | Guinea-Bissau | |
| Gito the Ungrateful* | Leonce Ngabo | Burundi | |
| Hyenas* | Djibril Diop Mambety | Senegal | |
| From Sun-Up* | Flora M’mbugu-Schelling | Tanzania | |
| Monday’s Girls* | Ngozi Onwurah | Nigeria | |
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| 1997 | Sarraounia | Med Hondo | Mauritania |
| Guimba the Tyrant* | Cheick Oumar Sissoko | Mali | |
| Ça Twiste à Poponguine* | Moussa Sene Absa | Senegal | |
| You Africa!* | Ndiouga Moctar Bâ | Senegal | |
| Ceddo | Ousmane Sembène | Senegal | |
| The Silences of the Palace | Moufida Tlatli | Tunisia | |
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| 1998 | Through the Door of No Return* | Shirikiana Aina | USA/Ghana |
| When the Stars Meet the Sea* | Raymond Rajaonarivelo | Madagascar | |
| Sankofa* | Haile Gerima | Ghana/Jamaica/USA | |
| Le Grand Blanc de Lambaréné* | Bassek ba Kobhio | Cameroon/Gabon | |
| Grt Grt Grt Grandparents’ Music* | Taale Laafi Rosellini | Burkina Faso | |
| Clando* | Jean-Marie Teno | Cameroon | |
| Deluge* | Salem Mekuria | Ethiopia/USA | |
| Flame* | Ingrid Sinclair | Zimbabwe | |
| Adama, the Fulani Musician* | Taale Laafi Rosellini | Burkina Faso | |
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| 1999 | Kini and Adams | Idrissa Ouédraogo | Burkina Faso/Zimbabwe |
| Taafe Fanga* | Adama Drabo | Mali | |
| Tableau Ferraille* | Moussa Sene Absa | Senegal | |
| Aristotle’s Plot* | Jean-Pierre Bekolo | Cameroon/Zimbabwe | |
| Faraw! Mother of the Dunes* | Abbdoulaye Ascofaré | Mali | |
| The Land/Al-Ard* | Youssef Chahine | Egypt | |
| Mortu Nega* | Flora Gomes | Guinea-Bissau | |
| Oggun: An Eternal Presence* | Gloria Rolando | Cuba | |
| Everyone’s Child* | Tsitsi Dangarembga | Zimbabwe | |
| Picc Mi/Little Bird* | Mansour Sora Wade | Senegal | |
| Fary, L’Anesse* | Mansour Sora Wade | Senegal | |
| My Dinner With the Devil Snake* | Jim Blashfield | USA | |
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| 2000 | Heritage Africa* | Kwaw P. Ansah | Ghana |
| Crossroads of People* | Kwaw P. Ansah | Ghana | |
| Love Brewed in the African Pot* | Kwaw P. Ansah | Ghana | |
| Life on Earth* | Abderrahmane Sissako | Mali | |
| The Last Angel of History* | John Akomfrah | Ghana/UK | |
| Tumult/Gir-Gir | Yemane I. Demissie | Ethiopia | |
| Fools | Ramadan Suleman | South Africa | |
| Maangamizi* | Mulvihill, Mhando | Tanzania | |
| Bab El-Oued City* | Merzak Allouache | Algeria | |
| Kirikou & the Sorceress* | Michel Ocelot | France | |
| Pièces d’Identités/ID* | Mweze Ngangura | Congo/DRC | |
| Destiny* | Youssef Chahine | Egypt | |
| Saikati the Enkabaani* | Anne G. Mungai | Kenya | |
| Honey and Ashes* | Nadia Fares | Tunisia | |
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| 2001 | Mossane | Safi Faye | Senegal |
| The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun* | Djibril Diop Mambety | Senegal | |
| Le Franc* | Djibril Diop Mambety | Senegal | |
| Touki Bouki* | Djibril Diop Mambety | Senegal | |
| Hyenas* | Djibril Diop Mambety | Senegal | |
| Genesis* | Cheick Oumar Sissoko | Mali | |
| Bye Bye Africa* | Mahamat Saleh Haroun | Chad | |
| Chef/Chief* | Jean-Marie Teno | Cameroon | |
| Head in the Clouds* | Jean-Marie Teno | Cameroon | |
| Jim Comes to Jo’burg* | Donald Swanson | South Africa | |
| Dolly and The Inkspots* | Jurgen Schadeberg | South Africa | |
| Fintar O Destino* | Fernando Vendrell | Cape Verde | |
| Kafi’s Story* | Arthur Howes | Sudan/UK | |
| Nuba Conversations* | Arthur Howes | Sudan/UK | |
| Yellow Card* | John Riber | Zimbabwe | |
| Halfaouine* | Ferid Boughedir | Tunisia | |
| Family Across the Sea* | Tim Carrier | Sierra Leone/USA | |
| The Language You Cry In* | A. Toepke, Serrano | Sierra Leone/Spain | |
| Kirikou and the Sorceress* | Michel Ocelot | France | |
| Sambizanga | Sarah Maldoror | Angola | |
| The Battle of the Sacred Tree* | Wanjiru Kinyanjui | Kenya | |
| Long Night’s Journey into Day* | Frances Reid, Deb Hoffmann | South Africa/USA | |
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| 2002 | T.G.V. | Moussa Touré | Senegal |
| Bopha! | Morgan Freeman | South Africa/USA | |
| Boesman and Lena* | John Berry | South Africa/USA | |
| Lumumba* | Raoul Peck | Congo/Haiti | |
| Thunderbolt* | Tunde Kelani | Nigeria | |
| Steve Biko: Beacon of Hope* | Nkosinathi Biko | South Africa | |
| Adanggaman | Roger Gnoan M’Bala | Ivory Coast | |
| Faat Kine* | Ousmane Sembène | Senegal | |
| Our Friends at the Bank* | Peter Chappell | Uganda/France | |
| Dakan/Destiny* | Mohamed Camara | Guinea | |
| Endurance | Leslie Woodhead | Ethiopia/USA | |
| Out in Africa* | Johnny Symons | South Africa/Zim/USA | |
| Woubi Cheri* | P. Brooks, L. Bocahut | Ivory Coast/France | |
| Sirga: The Lion Child | Patrick Grandperret | Ivory Coast/Mali/France | |
| A Door to the Sky* | Farida Ben Lyzaid | Morocco | |
| The Season of Men | Moufida Tlatli | Tunisia | |
| Naked Spaces: Living Is Round* | Trinh T. Minh-ha | West Africa/USA | |
| Diamonds, Guns, Rice* | Jan Haaken | Sierra Leone/USA | |
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| 2003 | Karmen Geï* | Joseph Gaï Ramaka | Senegal |
| Camp at Thiaroye* | Ousmane Sembène | Senegal | |
| Daresalam* | Issa Serge Coelo | Chad | |
| Adwa: An African Victory* | Haile Gerima | Ethiopia | |
| Sankofa* | Haile Gerima | Ghana/Jamaica/USA | |
| Sia, The Myth of the Python* | Dani Kouyaté | Burkina Faso | |
| Scenarios from the Sahel* | West African directors | Mali/Senegal/B. Faso | |
| It’s My Life* | Brian Tilley | South Africa | |
| Middle Passage* | Guy Deslauriers | Martinique | |
| Nelio’s Story* | Solveig Nordlund | Mozambique/Sweden | |
| The Closed Doors* | Atef Hetata | Egypt | |
| Umm Kulthum, A Voice Like Egypt* | Michal Goldman | Egypt | |
| Naguib Mahfouz* | Francka Mouloudi | Egypt | |
| The Cora Player | Cilia Sawadogo | Burkina Faso/Canada | |
| Christopher Changes His Name | Cilia Sawadogo | Burkina Faso/Canada | |
| Kirikou & the Sorceress* | Michel Ocelot | France | |
| Mama Africa, Pt. I* | Pickering et al. | Namibia/Nigeria/S. Africa | |
| Satin Rouge | Raja Amari | Tunisia | |
| Bilalian | Aminah AbdulJabbaar | USA/Senegal/Gambia | |
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| 2004 | Amandla! Revolution in Four-Part Harmony* | Lee Hirsch | South Africa |
| Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Stree | Nabil Ayouch | Morocco | |
| Waiting for Happiness* | Abderrahmane Sissako | Mauritania | |
| Abouna/Our Father* | Mahamat-Saleh Haroun | Chad | |
| Benjamin & His Brother* | Arthur Howes | Sudan/UK/USA | |
| The Price of Forgiveness* | Mansour Sora Wade | Senegal | |
| Imperfect Journey* | Haile Gerima | Ethiopia | |
| Little Senegal* | Rachid Bouchareb | Algeria/Senegal/USA | |
| Nightjohn | Charles Burnett | USA | |
| The Man by the Shore* | Raoul Peck | Haiti | |
| A Summer in La Goulette* | Férid Boughedir | Tunisia | |
| Bitter Cane* | Jacques Arcelin | Haiti | |
| Haiti: Dreams of Democracy* | Jonathan Demme | Haiti/UK | |
| Mama Africa, Part II* | Fanta Nacro et al. | B.F./Zimbabwe/Tunisia | |
| Inch’Allah Dimanche* | Yamina Benguigui | Algeria | |
| The Song of Umm Dalaila* | Danielle Smith | Western Sahara/Algeria | |
| The Beat of Distant Hearts* | Danielle Smith | Western Sahara/Algeria | |
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| 2005 | Waati/Time | Souleymane Cissé | Mali |
| Yeelen/Brightness* | Souleymane Cissé | Mali | |
| Baara/The Porter* | Souleymane Cissé | Mali | |
| Finye/The Wind* | Souleymane Cissé | Mali | |
| The Forest* | B. Kobhio, Ouénangaré | CAR/Cameroon/Gabon | |
| Cosmic Africa* | Craig & Damon Foster | South Africa | |
| Afro@Digital* | Bakupa-Kanyinda | Congo/France | |
| Moolaadé | Ousmane Sembène | Senegal | |
| Dôlè/Money* | Imunga Ivanga | Gabon | |
| Shanda* | John & Louise Riber | Zimbabwe | |
| On Tiptoe: Gentle Steps to Freedom* | L. Demoz, E. Simonson | South Africa | |
| Soldiers of the Rock* | Norman Maake | South Africa | |
| Madame Brouette | Moussa Sene Absa | Senegal | |
| The Father * | Ermias Woldeamlak | Ethiopia | |
| Surrender* | Celine Gilbert | Tanzania | |
| The Marriage of Mariamu* | R. Mulvihill, N. Ng’oge | Tanzania/USA | |
| The Life & Times of Sara Baartman* | Zola Maseko | South Africa | |
| The Return of Sara Baartman* | Zola Maseko | South Africa | |
| Rachida* | Yamina Bachir-Chouikh | Algeria | |
| Daughters of the Dust* | Julie Dash | USA | |
| Sisters of the Screen* | Beti Ellerson | West Africa/USA | |
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| 2006 | The Hero / O Heroi* | Zézé Gamboa | Angola |
| Darwin’s Nightmare | Hubert Sauper | Tanzania/Austria/France | |
| Heritage* | Ladi Ladebo | Nigeria | |
| Tasuma, The Fighter* | Daniel Kollo Sanou | Burkina Faso | |
| Maluala* | Sergio Giral | Cuba | |
| The Forgotten Root* | Raphael Rebollar Corona | Mexico | |
| From Florida to Coahuila* | Raphael Rebollar Corona | Mexico | |
| Sometimes in April* | Raoul Peck | Rwanda | |
| Sophia’s Homecoming* | Richard Pakleppa | Namibia | |
| Hot Chili* | Moabi Mogorosi | Botswana | |
| Keepers of Memory* | Eric Kabera | Rwanda | |
| In Rwanda We Say…* | Anne Aghion | Rwanda | |
| Welcome to Mali | Penda Diakité | USA/Mali | |
| Ko-Falen/The Gift Exchange | Baba Wagué Diakité | USA/Mali | |
| Coming to England | Keith Taylor | Trinidad/UK | |
| The Other World* | Merzak Allouache | Algeria | |
| All About Darfur* | Taghreed Elsanhouri | Sudan/UK | |
| Yesterday | Darrell Roodt | South Africa | |
| The Ball* | Orlando Mesquita | Mozambique | |
| The Sky in Her Eyes* | O. Smit, M. Ncayiyana | South Africa | |
| State of Denial* | Elaine Epstein | South Africa | |
| Living with Slim: Kids Talk about AIDS* | Sam Kauffmann | Uganda | |
| Tahara* | Sara Rashad | USA/Egypt | |
| Kare Kare Zvako* | Tsitsi Dangarembga | Zimbabwe | |
| Hollow City* | Maria João Ganga | Mozambique | |
| Kuxa Kanema/The Birth of Cinema* | Margarida Cardoso | Mozambique | |
| Africa: Open for Business | Carol Pineau | Various African countries | |
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| 2007 | Tsotsi* | Gavin Hood | South Africa |
| Crossroads of People* | Kwaw P. Ansah | Ghana | |
| The Golden Stool* | Kwaw P. Ansah | Ghana | |
| Love Brewed in the African Pot* | Kwaw P. Ansah | Ghana | |
| Delwende* | S. Pierre Yameogo | Burkina Faso | |
| Nha Fala/My Voice* | Flora Gomes | Guinea Bissau | |
| Black Gold* | Marc Francis, Nick Francis | UK/Ethiopia | |
| A Child’s Love Story* | Ben Diogaye Beye | Senegal | |
| Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela* | Thomas Allen Harris | USA/South Africa | |
| That’s My Face/É Minha Cara* | Thomas Allen Harris | USA/Brazil | |
| Scent of Oak/Roble de Olor | Rigoberto López Pego | Cuba | |
| Kirikou and the Wild Beasts | M. Ocelot, B. Galup | France | |
| Drum* | Zola Maseko | South Africa | |
| Borders/Frontières* | Mostefa Djadjam | Algeria | |
| Ochre and Water* | C. Matthew, J Chesselet | Namibia | |
| The Night of Truth | Fanta Régina Nacro | Burkina Faso | |
| Bedwin Hacker* | Nadia El Fani | Tunisia | |
| Sisters In Law* | K. Longinotto, F. Ayisi | Cameroon | |
| Al’lèèssi…An African Actress* | Rahmatou Keita | Niger | |
| Kuxa Kanema: The Birth of Cinema* | Margarida Cardoso | Mozambique | |
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| 2008 | Days of Glory/Indigènes | Rachid Bouchareb | Algeria |
| Borom Sarret* | Ousmane Sembène | Senegal | |
| Black Girl/La Noire de…* | Ousmane Sembène | Senegal | |
| Guelwaar* | Ousmane Sembène | Senegal | |
| Bamako* | Abderrahmane Sissako | Mali | |
| Daratt/Dry Season* | Mahamat-Saleh Haroun | Chad | |
| Colonial Misunderstanding* | Jean-Marie Teno | Cameroon | |
| Alex’s Wedding | Jean-Marie Teno | Cameroon | |
| The Wooden Camera | Ntshavheni wa Luruli | South Africa | |
| Masaï : The Rain Warriors* | Pascal Plisson | Kenya | |
| The Lion Mountains* | Louis Buckley | Sierra Leone/UK | |
| Moving to the Beat | Heymann, Fofanah | Sierra Leone/USA | |
| Ezra* | Newton Aduaka | Nigeria | |
| The Legend of the Sky Kingdom* | Roger Hawkins | Zimbabwe | |
| The Red Glasses | Yinka Djin | Ghana | |
| The Narrow Path* | Tunde Kelani | Nigeria | |
| Kinshasa Palace | Zeka Laplaine | D.R. Congo/France | |
| The Devil Came on Horseback | Sundberg,Stern | Sudan/USA | |
| In the Shadow of Hollywood* | Brad Osborne | USA | |
| This Is Nollywood* | Franco Sacchi | Nigeria | |
| Under the Moonlight* | Apolline Traoré | Burkina Faso | |
| 34 South* | Maganthrie Pillay | South Africa | |
| Sweet Crude | Sandy Cioffi | Nigeria/USA | |
| Zanzibar Soccer Queens* | Florence Ayisi | Zanzibar | |
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| 2009 | Zaïna: Rider of the Atlas | Bourlem Guerdjou | Morocco |
| FESPACO* | Kevin Arcadie | Burkina Faso/USA | |
| No Time To Die | King Ampaw | Ghana | |
| Clouds Over Conakry | Cheick F. Camara | Guinea | |
| Abeni* | Tunde Kelani | Nigeria | |
| Death of Two Sons* | Micah Schaffer | USA/Guinea | |
| Nightjohn | Charles Burnett | USA | |
| Bab’Aziz* | Nacer Khemir | Tunisia | |
| Cuba: An African Odyssey | Jihan El-Tahri | France/Egypt | |
| Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation | Charles Burnett | Namibia | |
| Azur & Asmar* | Michel Ocelot | France | |
| Africa Paradis | Sylvestre Amoussou | Benin/France | |
| The Fallen Beats* | Dhaba Wayessa | Ethiopia/USA | |
| Meteni The Lost One* | Wondwossen Deress | Ethiopia | |
| Menged* | Daniel Taye Workou | Ethiopia | |
| Meokgo & the Stick Fighter* | Teboho Mahlatsi | South Africa/Lesotho | |
| Taarab: An Ocean of Melodies* | Abdulkadir Ahmed Said | Tanzania/South Africa | |
| As Old As My Tongue – Bi Kidude* | Andy Jones | Tanzania/UK | |
| Enough! / Barakat! | Djamila Sahraoui | Algeria | |
| The World Unseen | Shamim Sarif | South Africa | |
| A Love During the War | Osvalde Lewat-Hallade | Congo/Cameroon | |
| Awaiting for Men* | Katy Léna N’Diaye | Mauritania/Belgium | |
| Iron Ladies of Liberia* | S. S. Johnson, D. Junge | Liberia/USA | |
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| **2010 | Teza | Haile Gerima | Ethiopia/Germany |
| Democracy in Dakar* | Herson et al. | Senegal/USA | |
| Water First* | Amy Hart | Malawi/USA | |
| Sankofa* | Haile Gerima | Ghana/Jamaica/USA | |
| Nothing But the Truth* | John Kani | South Africa | |
| Wrestling Grounds* | Cheikh A. Ndiaye | Senegal | |
| Behind the Rainbow | Jihan El-Tahri | S. Africa/Egypt/France | |
| Adios Momo* | Leonardo Ricagni | Uruguay | |
| Divizionz* | Yes! That’s Us | Uganda | |
| My Neighbor, My Killer* | Anne Aghion | Rwanda/France | |
| The Yacoubian Building | Marwan Hamed | Egypt | |
| Princess of the Sun | Philippe Leclerc | France | |
| Obara & the Merchants | Manauvaskar Kublall | USA | |
| Sex, Okra & Salted Butter | Mahamat-Saleh Haroun | Chad/France | |
| Adieu Mères/Goodbye Mothers* | Mohamed Ismail | Morocco | |
| The Fighting Spirit* | George Amponsah | Ghana/UK | |
| Paris or Nothing* | Joséphine Ndagnou | Cameroon/France | |
| Fom a Whisper* | Wanuri Kahiu | Kenya | |
| Senegalese Women & Islam* | Angèle Diabang Brener | Senegal | |
| Yandé Codou* | Angèle Diabang Brener | Senegal | |
| Coming of Age* | Judy Kibinge | Kenya | |
| Nora | A. Kovgan, D. Hinton | Mozambique/USA | |
| Movement (R)Evolution Africa | Joan Frosch | African countries/USA | |
**Note: Available in PCC Library in April 2010
