The Best Of Global Lens: Africa

Masai: The Rain Warriors (Massai: Les Guerriers De La Pluie) (2004)

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

Format: | Starring: Ngotiek Ole Mako, Paul Nteri Ole Sekenan, Parkasio Ole Muntet

A group of young Kenyan warriors is sent on a mission to bring back the mane of a dangerous lion, required as a sacrifice to the rain gods during a perilous drought. Though the Masai teens and their ... more

Hollow City (Na Cidade Vazia) (2004)

Category: Foreign | Director: Maria Joao Ganga | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

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Set in Angola after 27 years of civil war, this riveting drama follows orphan N'dala (Joao Roldan) and his odyssey across the capital city of Luanda. Rounded up with other children ... more

Munyurangabo (2007)

Category: Foreign | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: Yes

Format: | Starring: Jeff Rutagengwa, Eric Ndorunkundiye, Jean Marie Nkurikiyinka

Young friends Munyurangabo (Jeff Rutagengwa)--Ngabo, for short--and Sangwa (Eric Ndorunkundiye) embark on a journey of discovery as they leave the Rwandan village of Kigali with a stolen machete in Ngabo's ... more

Another Man's Garden (2007)

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

Format: | Starring: Evaristo Abreu, Gigliola Zacara

A young woman in Mozambique hopes to triumph over cultural prejudices by becoming a physician. Her integrity is put to the test when one of her professors makes an unwelcome overture, presenting her ... more

Viva Riva! (2010)

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

Format: | Starring: Patsha Bay, Manie Malone, Hoji Fortuna

Returning to his hometown of Kinshasa with a truckload of gasoline, hijacked from neighboring Angola, that he's looking to unload for the right price, small-time Congolese crook Riva immerses himself ... more

The Forgiveness Of Blood (2011)

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

Format: | Starring: Tristan Halilaj, Sindi Lacej, Refet Abazi

An Albanian family is torn apart after the patriarch of the clan--who delivers bread to earn a modest living--shoots and kills a neighbor angry over his using a shortcut to shuttle his cart through a ... more

Trade Routes (2007)

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

Format: | Starring: Kosta Tsonev, Alice Patten, Ross Mccall

As a nation struggling to emerge from a communist dictatorship prepares for an election, a beautiful and ambitious economic advisor interfaces with a disgraced CIA agent assigned to the country and three ... more

Zift (2008)

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

Format: | Starring: Djoko Rossich, Mihail Mutafov, Vladimir Penev

Wrongly jailed in the 1940s for a murder he didn't commit, Bulgarian tough guy Moth (Zahary Baharov) returns to freedom--of sorts--in the 1960s, after the scourge of Communist rule has devastated his ... more