Abouna (Our Father) (2002)

Rachida (2002)

Category: Foreign | Director: Yamina Bachir | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Ibtissem Djouadi, Bahia Rachedi, Rachida Messaoui En

The consequences of violence are analyzed in this timely drama focusing on Algerian schoolteacher Rachida. As civil war rages in her homeland, she is shot by terrorists after she thwarts a former student's ... more

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Viva Laldjerie (Viva Algeria) (2004)

Category: Foreign | Director: Nadir Mokneche | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Lubna Azabal, Biyouna , Nadia Kaci

Three women living in a downtown Algeria hotel struggle with the encroaching restrictions of fundamentalist Islam as the religion places increasingly strict barriers between the town's citizens and modern ... more

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Enough! (Barakat!) (2006)

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

Format: | Starring: Fettouma Boumari, Zahir Bouzrar, Malika Belbey

The Algerian Civil War of the 1990s provides the gripping backdrop for this powerful drama, as a young surgeon (Rachida Brakni) searches for her missing husband, a journalist she suspects may have been ... more

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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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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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Ali Zaoua: Prince Of The Streets (2000)

Category: Foreign | Director: Nabil Ayouch | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Said Taghmaoui, Mohamed Majd

Thought-provoking Moroccan drama chronicles the lives of three street urchins living in Casablanca who idle away their time daydreaming and sniffing glue to get high. After one of the boys is killed ... 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

Regularly $14.99 $11.99