
The War Story We Need Right Now
The book, 'Guantanamo Diary' is an exception about America's 'War on Terror': an account of torture and terror by one its victims.
The book, 'Guantanamo Diary' is an exception about America's 'War on Terror': an account of torture and terror by one its victims.
Cultural spaces and historic patrimony have not fared well during Angola's post-war reconstruction and development.
An interview with director Tala Hadid and producer Danny Glover of "A Narrow Frame of Midnight," set amidst political turmoil in Morocco.
The film 'Red Leaves’ is a timely depiction of the Ethiopian-Israeli struggle.
Namibian filmmaker, Perivi John Katjavivi: The black voice in cinema occurs on the margins and is filtered, distorted, watered-down, negotiated, corrupted.
Ten films we can recommend at the 2015 New York African Film Festival. The theme coincides with that of the United Nations and highlights women filmmakers.
Afripedia is a visual guide to contemporary urban culture on the continent.
African writers produce in literary prose — a language and cultural ethos in which they do not live.
An interview with the director of the first-ever feature-length film in Quechua, spoken by many of the indigenous people of the South American Andes.
A review of a documentary film about the life of Albie Sachs, a noted antiapartheid activist and later Supreme Court Judge in postapartheid South Africa.
'Virunga' is an important film, even if it lacks perspectives from local stakeholders.
White Shadow, a feature film directed by Noaz Deshe and executive produced by the actor Ryan
What we learn from the film “Concerning Violence,” about Franz Fanon’s writings and ideas
"Manos Sucias," produced by Spike Lee, is set in Buenaventura, Colombia’s biggest city on the Pacific Ocean and also the country’s biggest port. The city is 90% black.
Kudzanai Chiurai, the Zimbabwean-born South African artist known for his ironic commentaries on postcolonial politics, is the subject of a documentary film by BLK JKS guitarist Mpumelelo Mcata.
Guinea Bissau’s Sana Na N’Hada is one of Africa’s most important filmmakers today.
The Congolese cites the crime film, 'Carlito's Way,' starring Al Paciono, as a project he wished he had made. You can see the inspiration in "Viva Riva," his breakout film.
The selective memory of 'Plot for Peace,' documentary film about South Africa's transition.
A new documentary film offers a dignified and moving counterweight to how we in the West think - in static, sometimes pathologizing images - of kids elsewhere.
What do you when your 70 year old South African father wants to meet Robert Mugabe for his birthday. Make a film about it.