List of African films - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The following is a list of African films, arranged alphabetically by country of origin.

Botswana
Botswana
Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana , is a landlocked country located in Southern Africa. The citizens are referred to as "Batswana" . Formerly the British protectorate of Bechuanaland, Botswana adopted its new name after becoming independent within the Commonwealth on 30 September 1966...

Year	Title	Director	Genre	Notes
1980		Jamie Uys Jamie Uys Jacobus Johannes Uys , better known as Jamie Uys, was a South African film director.-Early life:Prior to his foray into film, Uys was a math teacher in his hometown of Boksburg. He then married Hettie, a fellow math teacher and the couple started farming and opening trading posts along the Palala...	comedy Comedy film Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...	the first of the The Gods Must Be Crazy film series The Gods Must Be Crazy (film series) The Gods Must Be Crazy is a series of films starring the Namibian San farmer and actor Nǃxau.-The Gods Must Be Crazy :The first film released in 1980, written and directed by Jamie Uys...
1989		Jamie Uys Jamie Uys Jacobus Johannes Uys , better known as Jamie Uys, was a South African film director.-Early life:Prior to his foray into film, Uys was a math teacher in his hometown of Boksburg. He then married Hettie, a fellow math teacher and the couple started farming and opening trading posts along the Palala...	comedy Comedy film Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...	part of the The Gods Must Be Crazy film series The Gods Must Be Crazy (film series) The Gods Must Be Crazy is a series of films starring the Namibian San farmer and actor Nǃxau.-The Gods Must Be Crazy :The first film released in 1980, written and directed by Jamie Uys...

Burundi
Burundi
Burundi , officially the Republic of Burundi , is a landlocked country in the Great Lakes region of Eastern Africa bordered by Rwanda to the north, Tanzania to the east and south, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west. Its capital is Bujumbura...

Year	Title	Director	Genre	Notes
	Ni nde?
1980	Ni-Ni
1992	Gito, l'ingrat
2010	Mugisha

Cape Verde
Cape Verde
The Republic of Cape Verde is an island country, spanning an archipelago of 10 islands located in the central Atlantic Ocean, 570 kilometres off the coast of Western Africa...

Year	Title	Director
1988	Os Flagelados do Vento Leste (film)	António Faria
1994	Longshots
1996	Ilhéu da Contenda
1997	O Testamento do Senhor Napumoceno
1998	Fintar o Destino
2000	Amílcar Cabral
2005	Siza, l'architecte et la vieille ville
2006	A Ilha dos Escravos

Central African Republic
Central African Republic
The Central African Republic , is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It borders Chad in the north, Sudan in the north east, South Sudan in the east, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo in the south, and Cameroon in the west. The CAR covers a land area of about ,...

Year	Title	Director	Genre
1981	Un homme est un homme
1985	Lengue	Léonie Yangba Zowe	documentary Documentary film Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record... short
1985	Nzale
1985	Yangba bolo
2003	Le Silence de la forêt

Eritrea
Eritrea
Eritrea , officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa. Eritrea derives it's name from the Greek word Erethria, meaning 'red land'. The capital is Asmara. It is bordered by Sudan in the west, Ethiopia in the south, and Djibouti in the southeast...

Year	Title	Director	Genre
	Dagmay Hiwet
	Fetihe do KimrAweki
	Hidrido hadar
	Maebel
	meAnta
	Wetoto
	Siqta semayat
2001	White Hotel White Hotel (film) White Hotel is a documentary film produced by American filmmakers Dianne Griffin and Tobi Solvang in the late 1990s. It was shot in Eritrea. The film focuses on the issue of HIV/AIDS infection in Eritrea....	Dianne Griffin, Tobi Solvang	documentary Documentary film Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

Ethiopia
Ethiopia
Ethiopia , officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth-largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2...

Year	Title	Director	Genre
	Selanchi Selanchi Selanchi is an Ethiopian Romantic comedy film. The film has won three awards on the 4th Ethiopian International Film Festival and it is the winner of the Best International Romantic Comedy Feature at the New York International Film Festival....		romantic comedy Romantic comedy film Romantic comedy films are films with light-hearted, humorous plotlines, centered on romantic ideals such as that true love is able to surmount most obstacles. One dictionary definition is "a funny movie, play, or television program about a love story that ends happily"...
1972	Child of Resistance
1972	Hour Glass Hour Glass
1975	Gouma
1975	Mirt Sost Shi Amit
1976	Mirt Sost Shi Amit (also known as Harvest: 3,000 Years)
1978	Wilmington 10—U.S.A. 10,000
1979	Bush Mama Bush Mama -Plot:Bush Mama is the story of Dorothy and her husband T.C., a discharged Vietnam veteran who thought he would return home to a "hero's welcome." Instead he is falsely arrested and imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. Theirs is a world of welfare, perennial unemployment, and despair...	Haile Gerima Haile Gerima Haile Gerima is an Ethiopian filmmaker, who resides in the United States. He is a leading member of the L.A. Rebellion film movement, also known as the Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers. His films have received wide international acclaim. Gerima has also been an influential film professor at...	drama Drama film A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
1982	Ashes and Embers Ashes and Embers Ashes and Embers is a 1982 drama film directed by Haile Gerima.-Plot summary:Ashes and Embers is a two-hour film about the travails of black urban life. It is the story of a moody and disillusioned black veteran of the Vietnam War.-Cast:...	Haile Gerima Haile Gerima Haile Gerima is an Ethiopian filmmaker, who resides in the United States. He is a leading member of the L.A. Rebellion film movement, also known as the Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers. His films have received wide international acclaim. Gerima has also been an influential film professor at...	drama Drama film A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
1985	After Winter: Sterling Brown
1993	Sankofa Sankofa (film) Sankofa is a 1993 Burkinabé drama film directed by Haile Gerima.-Plot:The story follows Mona, a contemporary model, as she is visited by spirits lingering in the Cape Coast Castle in Ghana and travels to the past, where, as a house servant named Shola she is constantly abused by her slave masters...	Haile Gerima Haile Gerima Haile Gerima is an Ethiopian filmmaker, who resides in the United States. He is a leading member of the L.A. Rebellion film movement, also known as the Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers. His films have received wide international acclaim. Gerima has also been an influential film professor at...	drama Drama film A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
1994	Imperfect Journey Imperfect Journey Imperfect Journey is a 1994 Ethiopian documentary film directed by Haile Gerima.- Plot summary :Imperfect Journey , is a BBC commissioned film, exploring the political and psychic recovery of the Ethiopian people after the atrocities and political repression or "red terror" of the military junta of...	Haile Gerima Haile Gerima Haile Gerima is an Ethiopian filmmaker, who resides in the United States. He is a leading member of the L.A. Rebellion film movement, also known as the Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers. His films have received wide international acclaim. Gerima has also been an influential film professor at...	documentary Documentary film Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
1995	Ye Wonz Maibel
1997	Blood Is Not Fresh Water Blood Is Not Fresh Water Blood is Not Fresh Water is an Ethiopian film, made in 1997 and directed by Theo Eshetu....	Theo Eshetu	documentary Documentary film Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
1997	Gir-gir
1999	Adwa Adwa (film) Adwa - An African Victory is a 1999 Ethiopian documentary film directed by Haile Gerima. It concerns the Battle of Adowa .- Plot summary :...	Haile Gerima Haile Gerima Haile Gerima is an Ethiopian filmmaker, who resides in the United States. He is a leading member of the L.A. Rebellion film movement, also known as the Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers. His films have received wide international acclaim. Gerima has also been an influential film professor at...	documentary Documentary film Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
2003	Mogzitwa
2006	Menged
2007	Thirteen Months of Sunshine
2008	Aldewolem
2008	Teza Teza (film) Teza is a 2008 Ethiopian drama film about the Derg period in Ethiopia. Teza won the top award at the 2009 Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou. The film was directed and written by Haile Gerima.-Synopsis:...	Haile Gerima Haile Gerima Haile Gerima is an Ethiopian filmmaker, who resides in the United States. He is a leading member of the L.A. Rebellion film movement, also known as the Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers. His films have received wide international acclaim. Gerima has also been an influential film professor at...	drama Drama film A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

Ghana
Ghana
Ghana , officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country located in West Africa. It is bordered by Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south...

Year	Title	Director	Genre	Notes
1993	Sankofa Sankofa (film) Sankofa is a 1993 Burkinabé drama film directed by Haile Gerima.-Plot:The story follows Mona, a contemporary model, as she is visited by spirits lingering in the Cape Coast Castle in Ghana and travels to the past, where, as a house servant named Shola she is constantly abused by her slave masters...	Haile Gerima Haile Gerima Haile Gerima is an Ethiopian filmmaker, who resides in the United States. He is a leading member of the L.A. Rebellion film movement, also known as the Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers. His films have received wide international acclaim. Gerima has also been an influential film professor at...	drama Drama film A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau
The Republic of Guinea-Bissau is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Senegal to the north, and Guinea to the south and east, with the Atlantic Ocean to its west....

Year	Title	Director	Genre
1984	Fanado
1986	N'tturudu
1988	Mortu Nega Mortu Nega Mortu Nega is a 1988 historic film by Flora Gomes, a director from Guinea-Bissau. Mortu Nega was Gomes' first feature-length film. This is the first docufiction, more precisely the first ethnofiction, from his country that shows, in an expressive and touching way, the experiences of the...	Flora Gomes Flora Gomes Flora Gomes is a Bissau-Guinean film director. He was born in Cadique, Guinea-Bissau on 31 December, 1949 and after high school in Cuba, he decided to study film at the Cuban Film Institute in Havana....	historical drama Historical drama film The historical drama is a film genre in which stories are based upon historical events and famous persons. Some historical dramas attempt to accurately portray a historical event or biography, to the degree that the available historical research will allow...
1992	Udju Azul di Yonta
1994	Xime
1995	A Mascara
1996	Po di Sangui

Liberia
Liberia
Liberia , officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Sierra Leone on the west, Guinea on the north and Côte d'Ivoire on the east. Liberia's coastline is composed of mostly mangrove forests while the more sparsely populated inland consists of forests that open...

Year	Title	Director	Genre	Notes
1995

Libya
Libya
Libya is an African country in the Maghreb region of North Africa bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south, and Algeria and Tunisia to the west....

Year	Title	Director	Genre
1972	Lorsque le destin s'acharne
1975	Al Tariq
1976	Al-Risâlah
1976	Mohammad, Messenger of God (also known at The Message)	Moustapha Akkad Moustapha Akkad Moustapha Akkad was a Syrian American film producer and director, best known for producing the series of Halloween films and directing Mohammad, Messenger of God and Lion of the Desert. He was killed along with his daughter Rima Akkad Monla in 2005 in Amman, Jordan by a suicide bomber.-Early life...	biographical Biographical film A biographical film, or biopic , is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or people. They differ from films “based on a true story” or “historical films” in that they attempt to comprehensively tell a person’s life story or at least the most historically important years of their... adventure Adventure film Adventure films are a genre of film.Unlike pure, low-budget action films they often use their action scenes preferably to display and explore exotic locations in an energetic way.... drama Drama film A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
1976	Pustinjska ladja
1977	Les Ambassadeurs Les Ambassadeurs (film) Les Ambassadeurs is a Tunisian film produced in 1975 by Naceur Ktari. It won the Tanit d'or for best film Carthage Film Festival in 1976 and the special jury prize at Locarno International Film Festival the same year...	Naceur Ktar	drama Drama film A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
1981	Lion of the Desert Lion of the Desert Lion of the Desert is a 1981 Libyan historical action film starring Anthony Quinn as Libyan tribal leader Omar Mukhtar, a Bedouin leader fighting the Italian army in the years leading up to World War II and Oliver Reed as Italian General Rodolfo Graziani, who attempted to defeat Mukhtar. It was...	Moustapha Akkad Moustapha Akkad Moustapha Akkad was a Syrian American film producer and director, best known for producing the series of Halloween films and directing Mohammad, Messenger of God and Lion of the Desert. He was killed along with his daughter Rima Akkad Monla in 2005 in Amman, Jordan by a suicide bomber.-Early life...	biographical Biographical film A biographical film, or biopic , is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or people. They differ from films “based on a true story” or “historical films” in that they attempt to comprehensively tell a person’s life story or at least the most historically important years of their... war War film War films are a film genre concerned with warfare, usually about naval, air or land battles, sometimes focusing instead on prisoners of war, covert operations, military training or other related subjects. At times war films focus on daily military or civilian life in wartime without depicting battles... drama Drama film A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
2007		Vivienne Roumani-Denn	documentary Documentary film Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

Madagascar
Madagascar
The Republic of Madagascar is an island country located in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa...

Year	Title	Director	Genre
1974	Very Remby
1980	Fitampoha
1983	Dahalo, Dahalo
1987	Ilo Tsy Very
1987	Le Prix de la paix
1988	Tabataba
1989	Angano... Angano...
1996	Quand les étoiles rencontrent la mer
2004	Souli Souli (film) Souli is a 2004 Malagasy drama film written and directed by Alexander Abela and based on William Shakespeare's Othello. It follows Abela's 1999 film Makibefo, an adaptation of Macbeth.-Plot:...	Alexander Abela	drama Drama film A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
2005	Mahaleo

Malawi
Malawi
The Republic of Malawi is a landlocked country in southeast Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the northwest, Tanzania to the northeast, and Mozambique on the east, south and west. The country is separated from Tanzania and Mozambique by Lake Malawi. Its size...

Year	Title	Director	Genre	Notes
2003	Lifecycles: A Story of AIDS in Malawi Lifecycles: A Story of AIDS in Malawi Lifecycles: A Story of AIDS in Malawi is a 2003 documentary from directors Sierra Bellows and Doug Karr focusing on the AIDS epademic in Malawi, Africa.-Plot:...	Sierra Bellows, Doug Karr Doug Karr Doug Karr has worked in the industry since 1997 creating original independent films. Karr’s 2009 film Ten for Grandpa is a personal investigation into the life of Karr's grandfather, an infamous Cold War merchant banker, and screened at the Sundance Film Festival...	documentary Documentary film Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

Namibia
Namibia
Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia , is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. It gained independence from South Africa on 21 March...

Year	Title	Director	Genre
1969	An Argument About a Marriage
1971	Baobab Play
1971	Bitter Melons
1989	Red Scorpion Red Scorpion Red Scorpion is a 1989 film directed by Joseph Zito starring Dolph Lundgren.-Plot:The plot centers on Lundgren's character Nikolai, a Soviet Spetsnaz-trained KGB agent who is sent to an African country where Soviet, Czechoslovakian and Cuban forces are helping the government fight an anti-communist...	Joseph Zito Joseph Zito Joseph Zito is an American film director. He is perhaps well known for directing many low budget action B-movies of the 1980s such as, Missing in Action, Invasion U.S.A., Red Scorpion, and many others. In the mid-1980s, Zito spent a year of pre-production on the Cannon version of Spider-Man...	action Action film Action film is a film genre where one or more heroes is thrust into a series of challenges that require physical feats, extended fights and frenetic chases... adventure Adventure film Adventure films are a genre of film.Unlike pure, low-budget action films they often use their action scenes preferably to display and explore exotic locations in an energetic way....
2000	Leni Riefenstahl im Sudan
2001	Diamonds and Rust	Adi Barash, Ruthie Shatz	documentary Documentary film Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
2001	Imiti ikula
2001	Uno's World
2004	Bonnie's Momentum
2007	Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation is a 2007 epic film on the Namibian independence struggle against South African occupation as seen through the life of Sam Nujoma, the leader of the South-West Africa People's Organisation and the first president of the Republic of Namibia...	Charles Burnett Charles Burnett (director) Charles Burnett is an African-American film director, film producer, writer, editor, actor, photographer, and cinematographer...	drama Drama film A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

Rwanda
Rwanda
Rwanda or , officially the Republic of Rwanda , is a country in central and eastern Africa with a population of approximately 11.4 million . Rwanda is located a few degrees south of the Equator, and is bordered by Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo...

Year	Title	Director	Genre	Notes
1986	Manirafashwa
1987	Rwanda, les collines de l'effort
2001	100 Days	Nick Hughes	drama Drama film A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
2003	Histoire de tresses
2004	Gardiens de la mémoire
2005	Sometimes in April Sometimes In April Sometimes in April is a 2005 historical drama television film about the Rwandan Genocide of 1994, written and directed by the Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck...	Raoul Peck Raoul Peck Raoul Peck is an award-winning Haitian filmmaker, of both documentary and feature films, and a political activist. Briefly, in the 1990s, he was Haiti's Minister of Culture.-Biography:...	historical drama Historical drama film The historical drama is a film genre in which stories are based upon historical events and famous persons. Some historical dramas attempt to accurately portray a historical event or biography, to the degree that the available historical research will allow... war War film War films are a film genre concerned with warfare, usually about naval, air or land battles, sometimes focusing instead on prisoners of war, covert operations, military training or other related subjects. At times war films focus on daily military or civilian life in wartime without depicting battles...	television film
2007	Ikigeragezo cy' ubuzima
2008	Ikigeragezo cy' ubuzima 2
2008	Kanyombya
2010	Ay'urukundo
2010
2010	Kanyombya 2
2010	Mayibobo
2011	Amapingu y'urukundo
2011	Gibraltar		documentary Documentary film Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone , officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Guinea to the north and east, Liberia to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west and southwest. Sierra Leone covers a total area of and has an estimated population between 5.4 and 6.4...

Year	Title	Director	Genre	Notes
2000	Cry Freetown Cry Freetown Cry Freetown is a 2000 documentary film directed by Sorious Samura. It is an account of the victims of the Sierra Leone Civil War and features footage of the battle for Freetown, Sierra Leone in January 1999. It was broadcast on CNN International on February 3, 2000. The film was produced with the...	Sorious Samura Sorious Samura Sorious Samura is a Sierra Leonean journalist. He is best known for two CNN documentary films: Cry Freetown and Exodus from Africa . The self-funded Cry Freetown depicts the most brutal period of the civil war in Sierra Leone with RUF rebels capturing the capital city . The film won, among other...	documentary Documentary film Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

Somalia
Somalia
Somalia , officially the Somali Republic and formerly known as the Somali Democratic Republic under Socialist rule, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. Since the outbreak of the Somali Civil War in 1991 there has been no central government control over most of the country's territory...

Year	Title	Director
1961	Love Does Not Know Obstacles	Hussein Mabrouk
1984	The Somali Darwish	Said Salah
1987	Geedka nolosha Geedka nolosha Geedka nolosha , or The Tree of Life, is a short film from Somali writer and director Abdulkadir Ahmed Said. In 1988, it won the Prize of the City of Torino in the Best Film - International Short Film Competition category at the Torino International Festival of Young Cinema.-Plot:In a small town, a...	Abdulkadir Ahmed Said Abdulkadir Ahmed Said Abdulkadir Ahmed Said is a prominent Somali film director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer and editor.-Biography:Said was born in 1953 in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. In 1970, he began working for the Somali Film Agency as a photographer assigned to international relations and as a...
1992	La Conchiglia La Conchiglia La Conchiglia , or The Conch, is a short film from Somali writer and director Abdulkadir Ahmed Said.-Plot:A female artist is painting a seascape on a deserted beach when she discovers a beautiful conch. Curious, she puts her ear to it and listens to the echoes and sounds of the ocean waves...	Abdulkadir Ahmed Said
2003	Rajo	Abdisalam Aato
2006	Xaaskayga Araweelo	Abdisalam Aato

Sudan
Sudan
Sudan , officially the Republic of the Sudan , is a country in North Africa, sometimes considered part of the Middle East politically. It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east, South Sudan to the south, the Central African Republic to the...

Year	Title	Director	Genre	Notes
2005	God Grew Tired of Us God Grew Tired of Us God Grew Tired of Us is a 2006 documentary film about three of the "Lost Boys of Sudan", a group of some 25,000 young men who have fled the wars in Sudan since the 1980s, and their experiences as they move to the United States. The film was written and directed by Christopher Dillon Quinn...	Christopher Dillon Quinn Christopher Dillon Quinn Christopher Dillon Quinn, also known as Christopher Quinn, is an award-winning American film director, writer, and producer. He was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in neighboring Alexandria, Virginia... , Tommy Walker	documentary Documentary film Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

Tanzania
Tanzania
The United Republic of Tanzania is a country in East Africa bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to the south. The country's eastern borders lie on the Indian Ocean.Tanzania is a state...

Year	Title	Director	Genre
2001	Maangamizi: The Ancient One Maangamizi: The Ancient One Maangamizi: The Ancient One is a 2001 American / Tanzanian drama film directed by Martin Mhando and Ron Mulvihill and executive produced by Jonathan Demme. It premiered at the Pan African Film Festival and has played in over 55 Film Festivals worldwide....	Martin Mhando, Ron Mulvihill	drama Drama film A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
2003	Bongoland Bongoland Bongoland is a 2003 American / Tanzanian film directed by Josiah Kibira. It tells the story of an illegal Tanzanian immigrant living in the United States....	Josiah Kibira
2005	Maisha Mapya
2006	Johari

Togo
Togo
Togo, officially the Togolese Republic , is a country in West Africa bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north. It extends south to the Gulf of Guinea, on which the capital Lomé is located. Togo covers an area of approximately with a population of approximately...

Year	Title	Director	Genre	Notes
1972	Kouami
1979	Au rendez-vous du rêve abêti
1988	Bawina
1991	Ashakara
1994	Femmes aux yeux ouverts
1999	Sarah Maladoror ou la nostalgie de l'utopie
2000	The Blooms of Banjeli
2000	Gobal Player
2002	Le Dilemme d'Eya

Uganda
Uganda
Uganda , officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. Uganda is also known as the "Pearl of Africa". It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by South Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by...

Year	Title	Director	Genre
2001	ABC Africa ABC Africa ABC Africa is a 2001 Iranian documentary feature film directed by Abbas Kiarostami. It was screened out of competition at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival....	Abbas Kiarostami Abbas Kiarostami Abbas Kiarostami is an internationally acclaimed Iranian film director, screenwriter, photographer and film producer. An active filmmaker since 1970, Kiarostami has been involved in over forty films, including shorts and documentaries...	documentary Documentary film Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
2004	Full of Energy
2006	Invisible Children Invisible Children Invisible Children: Rough Cut is a 2003 American documentary film. Its subject is the abduction and forced enlistment of children by the sectarian Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda.-Synopsis:...		short documentary Documentary film Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
2006	Pretty Dresses
2007	Divizionz Divizionz Divizionz is a guerilla film shot in Kampala, Uganda. Directed by Yes! That's Us and produced by Deddac, Switch Media, Bigtime Entertainments and Collywood Films...

Zaire
Zaire
The Republic of Zaire was the name of the present Democratic Republic of the Congo between 27 October 1971 and 17 May 1997. The name of Zaire derives from the , itself an adaptation of the Kongo word nzere or nzadi, or "the river that swallows all rivers".-Self-proclaimed Father of the Nation:In...

Year	Title	Director	Genre	Notes
1987	La Vie est belle La Vie est Belle La Vie est Belle may refer to:* La vie est belle , is an italian film from Roberto Benigni....
1990	Burndown
1992	Le Crapaud chez ses beaux-parents
1994	Perle noire
1996	Le Damier
1996	Macadam tribu

Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the African continent, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia and a tip of Namibia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east. Zimbabwe has three...

Forbidden Fruit
Forbidden Fruit (2000 film)
Forbidden Fruit is a 2000 German/Zimbabwean short documentary film written and directed by Sue Maluwa-Bruce. Filmed in Zimbabwe, the film depicts the romantic relationship between two women, and the aftermath of the discovery of their relationship.-Plot:...

(2000)

External links

African film at the Internet Movie Database
Internet Movie Database
Internet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...
African Media Program Database, Michigan State University Comprehensive database of more than 14,000 African films and videos

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