Francophone African Films
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The Francophone African Films 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
Allah Tantou
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.
California Newsreel | 1991 | 62 minutes
Arlit: Deuxième Paris
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.
California Newsreel | 2004 | 75 minutes
Ça twiste à Poponguine
A coming of age story set in a Senegalese fishing village about rival teenaged cliques living out their dreams against a backdrop of disillusioned adults.
California Newsreel | 1993 | 90 minutes
Dakan
The first feature film on homosexuality from sub-Saharan Africa.
California Newsreel | 1997 | 87 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
Femmes Aux Yeux Ouverts
Women in four African countries are shown organizing around issues of marital rights, reproductive health, female genital mutilation and entrepreneurship.
California Newsreel | 1994 | 52 minutes
Le Grand Blanc De Lambaréné
A revisionist perspective on Nobel Peace Prize winner Albert Schweitzer rewrites the history of colonialism from the point of view of the colonized.
California Newsreel | 1995 | 93 minutes
Karmen Gei
California Newsreel | 2001 | 82 minutes
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