Ali Zaoua: Prince Of The Streets (2000)

Great African Films, Vol. 3: Daratt (2006)/The Desert Ark (1998)

Category: Foreign | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Myriam Aouffen, Ali Bacha Barkai, Hisseine Aziza

First, enraged after the government of Chad provides blanket amnesty to its war criminals, an old man whose son was killed during the four-decade civil war enlists his grandson as an agent of revenge, ... more

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Daresalam (2000)

Category: Foreign | Director: Issa Serge Coelo | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Haikail Zakaria, Abdoulaye Ahmat, Youssouf Djaoro

The decades-long civil war that has gripped the northern African nation of Chad is the focus of director Issa Serge Coelo's gripping drama that follows two best friends in a remote village from their ... more

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Abouna (Our Father) (2002)

Category: Foreign | Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Ahidjo Mahamat Moussa, Hamza Moktar Aguid, Zara Haroun

When their father mysteriously vanishes, an 8-year-old Chadian and his 15-year-old brother go in search of him. After the boys see their dad in a movie, they steal the film reel from a local theater. ... more

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Adanggaman (2000)

Category: Foreign | Director: Roger Gnoan M'Bala | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Rasmane Ouedraogo, Albertine N'Guessan, Ziable Honore Goore Bi

Set in West Africa in the late 17th century, this controversial drama depicts the rarely seen role black Africans took in the slave trade. After his village is torched and his mother taken by the despotic ... more

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Dreams Of Dust (Reves De Poussiere) (2006)

Category: Foreign | Director: Laurent Salgues | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Makena Diop, Rasmane Ouedraogo, Fatou Tall-Salgues

This meditative drama set in Burkina Faso follows the story of a Nigerian peasant who comes to work in the African gold mines to erase the memory of a past tragedy. Forging a bond with some of his fellow ... more

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Mama Africa (2002)

Category: Foreign | Director: Fanta Regina Nacro | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Sophie David, Elia Jack Nakalemo, Muhindua Kaura

Rapper Queen Latifah hosts a trio of short films from Africa, each dealing with the struggles of young people. "Uno's World" is the story of a single Namibian mother who gets embroiled in a dangerous ... more

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Waiting For Happiness (Heremakono) (2002)

Category: Foreign | Director: Abderrahmane Sissako | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Khatra Ould Abdel Kader, Maata Ould Mohamed Abeid, Mahomed Mahmoud Ould Mohamed

Foregoing complex plotting for powerful mood and provocative symbolism, this French/Mauritanian drama set in the northern African country traces a young man's deeply emotional return to his childhood ... more

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Nha Fala (My Voice) (2002)

Category: Foreign | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Fatou N'Diaye, Jean-Christophe Dolle, Angelo Torres

Mindful of a curse that allegedly dooms any woman in her family who sings, West African college student Vita promises her mother that she won't break into song while attending school in Paris. After ... more

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The Night Of Truth (La Nuit De La Verite) (2004)

Category: Foreign | Director: Fanta Regina Nacro | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Rasmane Ouedraogo

Weary of the bloodshed engendered by a decade of war, enemy factions of a fictitious African nation meet to negotiate a settlement. As talks become steeped in distrust, leaders of both sides question ... more

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