Shooting on 16mm film in Mozambique, director Ico Costa explores the textures of human behaviour as he follows young men who wonder what lies beyond...
Searching Nafta
Die Bauern von Mahembe
A teacher newly released from prison renegotiates the confines of the physical world while forced to face his nightmare in the flesh.
Shimoni
In this drama that morphs into documentary, the lives of 3 men in Mombasa intertwine as one of them falls victim to radicalization.
Watatu
MoMo is a Somali urban refugee living in Nairobi where he runs the community radio station Wazi? FM with his Kenyan friend Kevo. Their partnership...
Wazi? FM
Mozizi, a female anthropomorphic character (half Anopheles mosquito, half human) is on a quest to find a new ‘home’ after her breeding...
Mozizi
When Kev, a super talented footballer's dream come crushing down, he is left with no choice but to join the criminal world. In the process of trying...
Click Click Bang
To save their real estate agency, an ambitious businesswoman and her entitled boss must convince an investor they're married -- despite hating each...
Married to Work
Anam, a professional mourner, takes on the task of guiding a wealthy family through a funeral ritual for its recently deceased patriarch but she soon...
Anam's Wake
To save her daughter’s failing heart, a coastal mother bets everything on music and moral compromise, until one concert and one assault change...
Tides
Between the Rains is a coming-of-age story of Kolei, a shepherd boy whose name translates to “living amongst the goats.” Unfolding over...
Between the Rains
A story about a young African man living with his beautiful childhood love interest in a bedroom shack, struggling to find work. He then gets a once...
Peponi: The Paradise of Crooks
Arif journeys between Zanzibar and Oslo, exploring his roots and personal identity. Guided by the spiral of a seashell — a symbol of past,...
Arif at Munch
In the search of a livelihood, Juliana, a young mother, holds on to sanity by a thread, as her world is turned upside down.
Act of Love
A six-year-old boy living in the outskirts of Nairobi uses an unusual ability to escape a harsh reality, in this wildly imaginative and emotionally...
Baba
In Old Moshi, Tanzania, a head is missing : the skull of Chief Meli, who fought the German colonial occupation of his territory and was executed in...
Mangi Meli Remains
In fabricating a fictional institute and its archive, the artists explore and imagine vernacular technological practices operating across the African...
Dzata: The Institute of Technological Consciousness
Evokes the personal trajectory of a Tanzanian Massai woman refusing genital mutilation. Directed by two NGO volunteers from Luxemburg working on a...
Mila Tu. Becoming a Massaï woman without mutilation
Set in a post-apocalyptic Nairobi, when the government has shut down the internet, books and the written word have become exponentially valuable and...
Monsoons Over the Moon
Journeying beyond the global headlines around 'Sudan,' the last male northern white rhino in existence, and explore the painful emptiness of...
Kifaru