Recommended for Cinema Studies
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The Recommended for Cinema Studies collection includes the following titles:
Afro@Digital
Afro@Digital looks at the impact of various digital technologies across a broad swath of present-day African life and asks how the technology is affecting African culture and how it can best serve the interests of Africa and the global South.
California Newsreel | 2003 | 52 minutes
Ainsi Meurent Les Anges
Moussa Sene Absa's latest work pushes the formal boundaries of African cinema.
California Newsreel | 2001 | 56 minutes
Ezra
Award-winning complex psychological study of a child soldier
California Newsreel | 2007 | 110 minutes
Faat Kine
In Dakar, Senegal Faat Kine, an independent, single mother and successful business owner looks back over twenty years of triumphs and hardships -including the betrayals by men in her life. A dramatic tribute to the strength and resilience of African women by Ousmane Sembene, the father of African cinema.
California Newsreel | 2001 | 121 minutes
The Hero
Winner, best foreign feature, the 2005 Sundance Film Festival
The Hero (O Herói) tells the story of Angola, a nation attempting to reconstruct itself after 40 continual years of anti-colonial and civil warfare, through the story of a veteran who has lost his leg, a prostitute who has lost a child and an orphaned boy.
The Hero (O Herói) tells the story of Angola, a nation attempting to reconstruct itself after 40 continual years of anti-colonial and civil warfare, through the story of a veteran who has lost his leg, a prostitute who has lost a child and an orphaned boy.
California Newsreel | 2005 | 97 minutes
Karmen Gei
California Newsreel | 2001 | 82 minutes
Quand les étoiles rencontrent la mer
A poetic exploration of traditional and modern concepts of freedom is set in the landscape of Madagascar.
California Newsreel | 1996 | 85 minutes
These Hands
Without plot or narration, this mesmerizing documentary records the dehumanizing monotony of a day in the life of women chipping rocks by hand in a Tanzanian quarry while discovering the communal warmth and joy that defies this spirit-breaking labor.
California Newsreel | 1992 | 45 minutes
This is Nollywood
California Newsreel | 2007 | 56 minutes
Thunderbolt
California Newsreel | 2000 | 110 minutes
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