• Hannah Borenstein

When a young Ethiopian, Haile Gerima, made a film about the exploitative nature of American college sports and the role of Black athletes in society.

• Masauko Chipembere

A new documentary about China's colonization of Malawi reveals how one colonial hand opens the door for another.

• Julie MacArthur

Political activist and award winning photojournalist Boniface Mwangi wants to remake Kenyan politics. A new film charts his journey.

• Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed

A hierarchy exists against indigenous film industries in the Ghanaian film industry.

• Sam Broadway

The basic lesson from Halima Ouardiri’s short film, “Clebs,” about over 750 stray dogs living in a Moroccan sanctuary: We behave just like dogs.

• Safia Aidid

A new film set in Djibouti City presents a searing class critique of Somali girlhood.

• William Shoki

Rehad Desai's film celebrates the investigative journalists who expose the corruption of Zuma's regime in South Africa, comes with a depressing note: To date, no one has gone to jail.

• Liz Timbs

What can we learn from the 256 hours of audio recordings of the 1964 Rivonia Trial's proceedings?

• Jordan G. Teicher

The new documentary on the future of our planet, executive produced by Michael Moore, fails on a number of fronts. But believers in green growth could still learn from it.

• Tsogo Kupa

Queen Sono may be Netflix’s most popular series, but it may not be the right home for the new wave of African film and television.

• Bhakti Shringarpure

Because of the 1994 genocide, Rwanda occupies a complicated place in the world’s imagination. A new film, about the preceding 1973 pogrom, wants to demystify that view. Does it succeed?

• Serawit Bekele Debele

A documentary film reclaims precolonial histories and spiritualities between Nigeria and Venezuela.

• Duane Jethro

A post-colonial visual meditation on archive, memory, and colonial violence.

• Shahenda Suliman

Capturing the absurdity of everyday life in Sudan under, now ousted President, Omar al Bashir.

• Danê Jaheem Sosaba

Black Brazilians have to fight official and popular narratives hiding the country's brutal and violent legacy of slavery.

• Jordan T. McDonald

The film Uncut Gems, Black American identity politics, and the narrative appeal of Ethiopian beginnings.

• Matt Carotenuto

A new documentary film tells a tale of everyday class, religious, and educational contestations around land in Kenya.

• Anthony Comber-Badu

Black popular culture has gained two new heroes in Queen & Slim—a film about desperate violence.

• Tsogo Kupa

For this group, politics is often framed as a series of never-ending discussions about social justice: The experience from South Africa.

• Lissell Quiroz

New French film on decolonization in Africa and Asia incapable of avoiding the Eurocentrism the filmmakers wanted to steer clear of.