A Sudanese immigrant to the UK returns to her homeland to understand why the seemingly racially harmonious country of her memories has become the scene of one of the worst instances of ethnic cleansing in recent history. What she discovers is that race may be too crude a concept to understand the crisis of Darfur.

Old home movies, newsreels and a prison diary are interwoven to link personal and public history in this assessment of human rights abuses in Guinea-Conakry.

Arlit: Deuxieme Paris is a case study in environmental racism set in a uranium mining town in the Sahara desert of Niger. Here European corporations extract nuclear power and profits leaving behind disease, contamination and unemployment.

The first feature film on civil war in modern-day Chad puts a human face on the cycle of violence that engulfs many African countries.

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.

Women in four African countries are shown organizing around issues of marital rights, reproductive health, female genital mutilation and entrepreneurship.

An historical allegory by Cheick Oumar Sissoko tells the tale of a tyrant overthrown.

A chronicle of the period from the departure of Charles Taylor to the election of Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the first African woman head of state, that presents the difficulties of rehabilitating a nation destroyed by war. As one Liberian so eloquently stated in the film, "We have an historic opportunity to re-create our state, and that's not something most people have in their lifetime."