Shot on location in Johannesburg, Cape Town, and
Mozambique, this political thriller is based on the
real-life story of Patrick Chamusso. The film takes
place in South Africa, spanning the 1980s to the
present day. Patrick (played by Derek Luke) is an
oil refinery employee who is brutalized by
government-sanctioned terror squads.

 After the end of Chad’s 40-year civil war (and a government amnesty for war criminals), a teenage boy is sent to the capital to avenge the death of the father he never knew.
He finds work with the killer, who turns out to be a stoic baker and
even something of a father figure. Haroun’s stark, distilled style ensures that the protagonist’s dilemma is a source of quiet suspense and considerable poignancy.

Young hoodlum’s rise from a small-time criminal to a powerful crime entrepreneur during the turbulent years before and after the fall of apartheid.

A film in Swahili. Patrick has made a big, unprotected mistake. He discovers that the best way to recover his peace of mind is to get tested for HIV, and he finds that the test really isnt as hard as he thought. Directed by Fanta Regina Nacro (Burkina Faso; based on an idea by Olivier Kaboré, aged 22 (Burkina Faso). A SCENARIOS FROM AFRICA film (www.globaldialogues.org)

Night of Truth (La nuit de la vérité, 2004) is the African director Fanta Régina Nacro’s first full length film.

Set in a fictional West-African country, this film tells the story of the night of reconciliation between two ethnic groups, the Nayak and the Bonandes. After ten years of war and much bloodshed, Theo, leader of the Bonandes, invites the Nayak president to come and make peace. However things don’t go as smoothly as planned.

Utterly singular, Les Saignantes is a futuristic, sci-fi, erotic, political thriller that traverses all of these genres while bringing a strong political sensibility to proceedings. Two sexy young women win the favors of the corrupt political elite, but when one of these leaders dies in the middle of a sexual act, the friends are left with a corpse to get rid of. Bekolo eviscerates the ruling elite but with the canny use of inter-titles also leaves the audience with something to ponder. The film won the Silver Stallion (second best African film) at Fespaco 2007 and the Best actress awards with the special mention of the jury.

SKIN is one of the most moving stories to emerge from apartheid South Africa: Sandra Laing is a black child born in the 1950s to white Afrikaners, unaware of their black ancestry. Her parents are rural shopkeepers serving the local black community, who lovingly bring her up as their ‘white’ little girl. But at the age of ten, Sandra is driven out of white society. The film follows Sandra’s thirty-year journey from rejection to acceptance, betrayal to reconciliation, as she struggles to define her place in a changing world – and triumphs against all odds.