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100 Days |
Rwanda |
Set in the breathtaking natural beauty
of the Rwanda countryside, this fist ever fiction film made about the Rwanda
civil war tells a powerful story of genocide and human survival with compassion
and integrity. |
$25.00 $14.99 |
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African Leaders |
Martinique/Algeria & Cape Verde |
Portrait of two leaders of the Pan-African Liberation Movement: Frantz Fanon and Amilcar Cabral. |
$29.95 $11.99 |
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Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death |
Belgium |
The Belgian government has denounced this documentary as a "tendentious diatribe" for depicting King Leopold II - still a heroic figure in Belgium - as the moral forebear of Adolf Hitler, responsible for the death of 10 million people in his rapacious exploitation of the Congo. |
$29.95 $13.99 |
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Great African Films - Vol. 2 |
USA |
GREAT AFRICAN FILMS, VOLUME 2: Tasuma / Sia, the
Dream of the Python -
The second installment in this series of award-winning
films from Africa includes Kollo Sanou's Tasuma, the Fighter (2003, 90 minutes, French
and Jula with English subtitles), a comic look at the impact of French colonialism
on Africa; Retired from the French army, Burkinabe soldier Sogo Sanou waits patiently
for his pension, which he plans to use to build a grain mill for the women of
his village - Next is Dani Kouyate's Sia, the Dream of the Python (2001,
96 minutes, Bambara with English subtitles), a modern adaptation of a seventh-century
African legend: A poor village decides it must make a human sacrifice to a mystical
snake god to guarantee a better future; Sia, the most beautiful woman in the
village, is chosen for the ritual, but she runs away in revolt - 186 minutes. |
$39.95 $12.99 |
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Jamaican Music & Soul |
Jamaica |
'Jamaican Music & Soul' is a dvd that contains 2 documentaries, firstly Jerome Lapperousaz's powerful 'Made in Jamaica'(2006) and 2nd, the classic rasta repatriation story by German film maker Fitz Baumann 'Journey Of The Lion'(1992), which is a beautiful film that has withstood the test of time and continues to be screened at film festivals each year. |
$29.95 $12.99 |
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Lumumba |
France |
Made in the tradition of such true-life
political thrillers as Malcolm X and JFK, Raoul Peck's award-winning Lumumba
is a gripping epic that dramatizes for the first time the rise and fall of legendary
African leader Patrice Lumumba. |
$29.95 $17.97 |
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Race and History in Brazil |
Brazil |
Race and its impact on the art and history of Brazil are highlighted in this two-disc set with Joel Zito Araujo's documentary Denying Brazil (A Negacao do Brasil, 92 mins) and Geraldo Santos Pereira's Aleijadinho: Passion, Glory and Torment (Aleijadinho: Paixao, Gloria e Suplicio, 100 mins. |
$29.95 $12.99 |
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Sankofa |
USA |
A stunning film with great reserves
of emotional power and intelligence, Sankofa tells
the story of Mona, a beautiful African-American model on a fashion shoot in
West Africa who becomes enmeshed with a mystical spot that forces her to recall
her racial past. |
$39.95 $18.97 |
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The Tracker |
Australia |
The year is 1922 and The Tracker (David Gulpilil, Walkabout,
Rabbit-Proof Fence) has the job of pursuing The Fugitive - an aborigine
who is suspected of murdering a white woman - as he leads three mounted policemen:
The Fanatic, The Follower and also The Veteran across the outback. |
$29.95 $11.99 |
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Voices from the New South Africa |
South Africa |
VOICES FROM THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA: NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH and HOMECOMING
VOICES FROM THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA: NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH and HOMECOMING
From the new South Africa comes this double feature focusing on the struggle of exiled Black Africans to find their place in their country after apartheid. |
$29.95 $18.99 |
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