Almacita, Soul of Desolato

Set in turn-of-the-century Curaçao, Almacita: Soul of Desolato follows priestess Solem as she guards her village from the shape-shifting Alma Sola—embodiment of colonial evil—while her vow of celibacy and longing for love test the balance between creative and destructive forces.

Amal

Brussels teacher Amal encourages students' passion for reading and freedom of expression, despite risks. Her daring approach leaves a mark on pupils and families.

Desiree

Felix de Rooy’s Desirée, set in Brooklyn and inspired by a 1980 news story, follows a woman scarred by childhood trauma whose toxic ties—to a racist employer, insecure lover, and rigid preacher—drive her toward a desperate, delusional act against her own child.

Finding Ordera

"Finding Odera" is a transcultural romantic drama about a devoted Nigerian man, Olisa Obi, whose journey from Lagos to Toronto to find his lost love, Odera, transforms into an unexpected quest for self-discovery and belonging with the help of a Canadian filmmaker, Aria McDonald.

Foreign Body

Director Raja Amari's powerful film about a young, undocumented Tunisian woman's search for survival and desire in France in a web of sexual and emotional tension was banned from being listed or sold on Amazon in the USA.

Nome

Guinea-Bissau, 1969. A violent war between the Portuguese colonial army and the guerrillas of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea.

Sins of the Flesh

This erotic and psychological drama by controversial Egyptian filmmaker Khaled El Hagar is set against the 2011 revolution was banned from being listed or sold on Amazon in the USA.

The Wall Street Boy

With his life in jeopardy and jail almost a certainty, one question remains, how could a farm boy bring down the global financial system and how far is the international world order willing to go to silence his story?

Drama

Ava & Gabriel: A Love Story

Set in late-1940s Curaçao, a Surinamese painter chooses Black teacher Ava as his model for the Virgin Mary, igniting racial, colonial, and moral tensions that engulf the community—and ultimately himself.

Frantz Fanon: His Life, His Struggle, His Work

The documentary traces the short but explosive life of Martinican psychiatrist and revolutionary thinker Frantz Fanon, whose groundbreaking works, Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth, profoundly influenced decolonization movements across Africa and the global Pan-African consciousness.

Mother Suriname – Mama Sranan

In Mother Suriname – Mama Sranan, filmmaker Tessa Leuwsha uses a stream of fascinating colorized archival footage to illustrate the lives of Surinamese women like her grandmother, who was a washerwoman.

Walter Rodney: What They Don’t Want You to Know

A 72-minute documentary probing the assassination of Guyanese scholar-activist Walter Rodney, weaving Cold War intrigue, Black Power, and today’s surveillance practices with first-time personal testimony from his widow and voices including Angela Davis and Donald Ramotar.

Caribbean

As Far as I Can Walk

Strahinja and his wife Ababuo left Ghana with a dream of a better life in Europe. Instead of reaching the western part of the continent, they were deported back to Serbia.

Selling a Colonial War

"Selling a Colonial War" is a documentary that exposes media–political complicity in colonial propaganda and the deliberate control of information, revealing—and itself confronting—the mechanisms of state and media censorship used to justify war.

The Story of Lovers Rock

Set in 1970s and 1980s Britain, this film celebrates how Black youth transformed struggle into joy through Lovers Rock—a soulful reggae movement that redefined music, identity, and empowerment.

Europe

Romance

Breaking Boundaries

Black Californian teenager, Nastasya Generalova, was raised by her single white Russian mother, Olga who enrolled Nastasya in rhythmic gymnastics when she was four years old as a way for her to connect to Olga's homeland.

LOIMATA, The Sweetest Tears

Director Anna Marbrook honours the last voyage of the great waka maker, sailor and mentor Ema Siope, whose journeys between Aotearoa and Sāmoa in search of healing, and her family’s reckoning with systemic abuse, are powerfully documented.

Music Pictures: New Orleans

Music Pictures gives us four legacy portraits of New Orleans music figures Irma Thomas, Little Freddie King, Ellis Marsalis, and The Tremé Brass Band. Now in their 80s, these local masters continue their practice, for the love of the music, in the city that made them who they are.

Documentary

Music and Dance

Kirikou and the Sorceress

Drawn from elements of West African folk tales, it depicts how a newborn boy, Kirikou, saves his village from the evil witch Karaba.

Minga and the Broken Spoon

Minga is an orphaned girl living with her stepmother Mami Kaba and her stepsister Abena. One day, when she was washing dishes in the river, she accidentally broke a spoon. A furious Mami Kaba then chased her away from the house, asking her to find the only identical spoon hidden by her late mother

Africa

Francophone

Animation

Cinema and Censorship

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