Jane Sloan Media Librarian jsloan@rci.rutgers.edu June 2006

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Feature Films Africa

This guide is a browsing aid to selected titles in the video/DVD collections at Rutgers Libraries. The most up-to-date, accurate, and complete information regarding the libraries' holdings is available only through IRIS, our online catalog.

Ahlam Hind wa Kamilah Dreams of Hind and Camilia 1989

Two young women struggle to survive between the harsh working conditions in Cairo slums and their abusive or worthless husbands and boyfriends.

1 videocassette (110 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3356

Ainsi meurent les anges "Mory [is] a troubled Senegalese poet living outside Paris with his French wife and their children. We watch his marriage fall apart under cross-cultural pressures, specifically his father's demand that he take a second wife in Senegal. Homeless in winter, separated from his children, his poems scattered over a Paris street, Mory returns to Senegal, penniless and with uncertain prospects. At the same time, black-and-white sequences reveal the psychological origins of Mory's present malaise."--http://www.newsreel.org.

1 videocassette (57 min.)

DANA 1988

Al-Nasir Salad al-Din Saladin 199

Saladin unites the Arab nation, liberates Jerusalem from its European captors, and defeats the venal and treacherous Crusaders. The love interest subplot finally sees the union of a female Crusader and Saladin's Christian Arab lieutenant.

1 videocassette [145 min.] :

MEDIA 2-5408

Angano- angano- nouvelles de Madagascar = Angano- angano- : tales from Madagascar 1989

1 videocassette (63 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in

DANA 407

Asfar al-sath Halfaouine : child of the terraces 1997

In this coming of age film Noura, an inquisitive thirteen-year-old Arab boy, begins to experience his own sexual desires when he visits the local Turkish bathhouse with his mother. But just as Noura is awakened to the pleasures of the opposite sex, he risks being wrestled from their tender, affectionate companionship and thrust into the callous and rigid company of men.

1 videocassette (98 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5547

Bab al-Sama' Maftuh A door on the sky 1995?

A young woman struggling between her Moroccan heritage and adopted French culture, returns from Paris to Fez to visit her dying father. At his funeral, she is overcome by the voice of Karina chanting the Koran. A powerful friendship develops between the two women as they decide to turn the father's palace into a shelter for Muslim women.

1 videocassette (107 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5664

Bab el-Hadid Cairo Station 199

A smoldering tale of life among the poor who live in Cairo's railroad station.

1 videocassette (74 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5665

Bab el-oued city 1994

Bab El-Oued is a working class district of Algiers. A young worker commits an act which puts the entire district in turmoil.

1 videocassette (93 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5599

Battle of Algiers 1988

Dramatization of the conflict between Algerian nationalists and French colonialists that culminated in Algeria's independence in 1962.

1 videocassette (125 min.) : DVD

DANA. MEDIA MEDIA 326 2-706 10-346

Bent familia 1997

Aida and Amina, two young Tunisian women now in their thirties, are reunited. It is an occasion for them to question their lives and relationships. The presence of Fatiha, an Algerian refugee in Tunisia creates a quest for the three women to overcome their respective societal limitations.

1 videocassette (105 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5604

Black girl / La Noire de . . 1965

Tells of a Senegalese woman who is eager to find a better life abroad, and how this hope turns to disillusionment and finally despair after taking a job as a servant for a Paris family.

1 videocassette (60 min.) :

MEDIA D-11

Bye bye Africa 1999

In this reflexive docu-drama about the difficulties of making films in Africa, an exiled film director returns to Chad after the death of his mother. There he discovers, as a result of wars, that motion picture theaters have been abandoned in favor of makeshift video theaters often in private homes. Haroun visits a producer who suggests that he make a film using a video camera and concludes that the important thing is to continue to produce films no matter what the circumstances.

1 videocassette (86 min.)

DANA 1989

Ça twiste à Poponguine Rocking Popenguine 1993

A comedy set during the last week before Christmas, 1964, in a remote beachside village, where the local teenagers are divided into rival cultural camps.

1 videocassette (90 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5269

Chocolat 2001

A young woman returns to Cameroon to trace her past in this enthralling depiction of a family's struggle during the final years of French colonialism in Africa that takes a profound look at the intricate nature of relationships in a racist society.

1 videodisc (106 min.) :

MEDIA 10-83

Chronicle of the smoldering years 1997

Epic look, beginning just before World War II, at Algeria's struggle for independence from France. Seen through the struggles of one family.

1 videocassette (175 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5600

Cry freedom 1988

The story of the friendship between Steve Biko, a black South African activist, and Donald Woods, a white newspaper editor who escapes South Africa after Biko's death to publicize the truth about Biko and about apartheid.

1 videocassette (157 min.) :

MEDIA 2-623

Cry, the beloved country 1995?

The story of two fathers living in South Africa, a black minister and a white farmer, whose lives are bound together by mutual tragedy.

1 videocassette (106 min.) :

DANA 1032

Dakan Destiny 1997

Dakan is the first feature film on homosexuality from sub-Saharan Africa. It also is a contemporary African reinterpretation of the age-old Romeo and Juliet conflict between love and social convention.

1 videocassette (87 min.) :

DANA. MEDIA 1294 2-3730

Daresalam 2000

This feature film focuses on two young men caught up in the Civil War in Chad. It begins in the 1970s with the story of Koni and Djimi as the central government invades their village and insistes on buying the farmer's millet at below market and then browbeats the villagers into paying taxes to help fight the war. When they resist the government burns the village and massacres the inhabitants. Djimi, wounded, remains behind with the hard-liners, while Koni joins a faction which supports compromise with the government.

1 videocassette (100 min.)

DANA 1984

Le destin Destiny 1999

When a disciple of 12th-century philosopher Averroes is burned at the stake for heresy, his young son Joseph journeys to Andalusia to study with his father's mentor. There he joins Averroes' disciples uniting against an evil sheik intent upon destroying the philosopher's work.

1 videocassette (135 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5541

Emitai 1971?

Dramatically depicts the confrontation and resistance that ensued between the French colonial goverment and the Diola people in Senegal. The colonial goverment's conscription of young Diola men to fight for France in World War II and their demand for food from the women and old men set the stage for the clash between the Diola and the French.

1 videocassette (105 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2220

Everyone's child 1996

In a rural village in Zimbabwe, Tamari and Itai are devastated following the tragic death from AIDS of both their parents. For the children this is a time of fear and survival as family and neighbors turn their heads. The social climate in the city is just as hostile as it is in the village. In the end it is only tragedy that can bridge the gulf of denial between their two worlds and make the community realize that these are everyone's children.

1 videocassette (83 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3617

Faat Kine 2000

The deceptively light domestic drama of Faat Kine, a gas station operator, and unwed mother of two, who climbs the ladder of success in a male dominated field.

1 videcassette (121 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5725

Faraw! une mere des sables 1997

With three difficult children, a crippled, mentally unbalanced husband and no steady income, Zamiatou is the poorest woman in an impoverished desert village in Mali. She could have plenty of money to survive if she would sell her daughter as a prostitute to nearby French settlers, but she refuses to do so. Unfortunately, her family situation continues to spiral downward and she is finally forced to seek outside help.

1 videocassette (90 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5259

The father Surrender ; A barber's wisdom 2000

Each of these three films offers a critical look at the relationships between fathers and their children in contemporary Africa. Surrender shows the traditional face of paternal tyranny, a father controlling his son's life. A Barber's Wisdom shows a modern father who compromises his children in his relentless pursuit of money. In The Father, the patriarch in question is ultimately the military dictatorship which terrorized Ethiopia in the 70s and 80s.

1 videocassette (87 min.)

DANA 1992

Fatma 2004?

"A poor nurse falls in love with the son of one of her wealthy patients. Abandoned by her husband while pregnant, she must fight her husband's wealthy and powerful family in court"--Container.

1 videodisc (ca. 126 min.)

MEDIA 10-324

Fi baytina rajul A man in our house 2003

Set prior to the 1952 revolution, a member of an underground resistance group seeks refuge from the political police with a civil servant and his family.

1 videodisc

MEDIA 10-325

Fintar o destino 1998

"Fintar o destino is the Library of African Cinema's first sports film -- but a sports film with a distinctly African twist. It is the story of the aging sport hero who holds onto his past so strongly he destroys his present. At the same time, this film explores a much broader tension, personal and political, between remaining true to one's dreams or making the best of the limited opportunities around us.".

1 videocassette (77 min.) :

DANA. MEDIA 1387 2-5155

Finzan 1990

Tells the story of two Mali women steadfastly resisting the oppression of tradition and their subsequent rebellion. Nanyuma, a young widow, refuses her brother-in-law, the village fool, when he asserts his traditional right to "inherit" her. Fili, a young girl sent from the city by her conservative father, is brutally circumcised by the village women who are scandalized that she resists the age-old custom.

1 videocassette (107 min.) :

DANA. MEDIA 842 2-3377

Flame 1996

One of the most controversial films ever produced in Africa (seized by the police during editing), this feature film not only exposes past abuses but continuing divisions within Zimbabwean society, especially against women and peasants. It is the story of two close friends, Florence and Nyasha as they train and fight as soldiers in the Zimbabwean liberation struggle, but after liberation find their lives little changed.

1 videorecording (85 min.) :

DANA. MEDIA 1295 2-3299

Friends 1994

The close friendship between three young South African women (a white political activist, a Black schoolteacher, and an Afrikaner archeologist) is tested when the activist sets off an airport bomb during the late '80's fight against apartheid and two innocent people are killed.

1 videocassette (105 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3414

Gallipoli 1982

Two young men who meet as rivals in a cross-country running race become friends and join the Australian army during World War I. They journey through Egypt together and face German-allied Turkish forces at the ill-fated battle of Gallipoli.

1 videocassette (111 min.)

MEDIA 2-2337

The grass is singing 1997?

The story of a successful career woman who gives up the comfort of her cosmopolitan life when she falls in love with a bush farmer. She tries to assimilate herself to her forbidding new environment. Gradually farm life begins to unnerve her, and in a gripping series of events she loses her self-control and becomes sexually involved with another man.

1 videocassette (102 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5210

Guelwaar 1996?

When Guelwaar, a political activist and a Christian, is mistakenly buried in a Muslim cemetary, family members, political and religious leaders become embroiled in the dispute.

1 videocassette (115 min.) :

DANA 1219

Haramuya 1995

Through Fousseini, a Muslim firmly attached to his faith and traditions, this film draws a picture of Ouagadougou in the traps of modernism and traditionalism. Foussei tries to take care of his family according to the old precepts and the code of honor inherited from his ancestors. One of his sons is a cinema projectionist and supports all the family against the will of his wife, while the other son idles around all day, looking for girlfriends.

1 videocassette (87 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5260

Heart of darkness 1994

In turn-of-the-century Africa, colonial traders driven by greed brave forbidding dangers to exploit the continent's vast treasures. One of these is sea captain Marlow, who penetrates the Congo's jungles in pursuit of the mysterious Mr. Kurtz, deranged chief of a remote trading station.

1 videodisc (105 min.) :

MEDIA 7-65

Hotel Rwanda 2005

A true story of Paul Rusesabagnia, a hotel manager who housed over a thousand Tutsis refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda.

1 videodisc (122 min.)

DANA 265

Hyènes Hyenas 1993?

Adapted from the play, Der Besuch der alten Dame, by Friedrich Dürrenmatt. The Swiss dramatist's celebrated parable of human greed is adapted into a biting satire of today's Africa--betraying the hopes of independence for the false promises of Western maleviolence. A woman who amasses a fortune returns to her hometown upon which she will bestow a great deal of money if someone there will murder her former lover who betrayed her, forcing her out of the village and into a life of prostitution.

1 videocassette (107 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3376

Iskandariyah lih? Alexandrie pourquoi? 199

Amid poverty, death and suffering caused by World War II, 18-year-old Yehia dreams of studying filmmaking in America. After falling in love and discovering the lies of European occupation, he reevaluated his identity and allegiances.

1 videocassette (125 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5407

Jericho 1997

A soldier flees from an unjust criminal conviction and is chased across Africa.

1 videocassette (75 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3445

Karmen Gei 2002

Karmen escapes prison through her lesbian relationship with the warden. She then wrecks the marriage and career of a police corporal by making him her lover and co-conspirator in a smuggling ring. She abandons the corporal who, in a fit of jealous rage, stabs her. Contains much singing and dancing.

1 videocassette (83 min.)

DANA. MEDIA 1976 2-6434

Kippur 2001

Film takes place in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War in which Egypt and Syria launched attacks in Sinai and the Golan Heights. We are led on a day that begins with quiet city streets, but ends with death, destruction and devastation of both body and mind.

1 videodisc (123 min.) :

MEDIA 10-88

Lumumba 2000

Dramatizes the life of Congolese revolutionary, Patrice Lumumba, who lead his country to independence from Belgium in 1960. He served, for less than a year, as the first elected prime minister until he was brutally assassinated.

1 videocassette (115 min.) :

MEDIA. MEDIA 2-5699 2-5699

Mama Africa 2001

Uno's world / written and directed by Bridget Pickering ; co-produced by Onland Productions and Namibian Broadcasting Corporation ; a Zimmedia & Ice Media Production -- Hangtime / written and directed by Ngozi Onwurah ; produced by Simon Onwurah ; produced in association with YLE/TVI Co-Productions ; a Zimmedia & Non-Aligned Production -- Raya / directed by Zulfah Otto-Sallies ; produced by Steven Markowitz & Platon Trakoshis ; written by Zulfan Otto-Sallies, Henrietta Rose-Innes and Brian Tilley ; produced in association with VLE/TVI Co-Productions ; Canal Horizon ; a Big World Cinema Production for ZimmediaUno's world: Young girl learns that dressing up in fancy clothes does not make her a woman. Hangtime: Young boy tries to have it all through basketball. Raya: A young woman learns to leave her past behind, change her life and do it right.

1 videocassette (87 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5750

Mapantsula 1990?

Panic is a petty criminal imprisoned with South African Anti-Apartheid activists who feel contempt toward his lifestyle. While in jail, Panic is transformed into a man willing to become involved with social change.

1 videocassette (104 min.) :

DANA 373

Master Harold ... and the boys 1986

A young white man's frustration with the return home of his alcoholic, handicapped father turns into racist viciousness against the two black men who work for the family.

1 videocassette (90 min.) :

DANA. MEDIA 17 2-1332

Moolaadé 2004

To escape the ritual of "purification" organized every seven years, four young girls flee their village and find protection with Collé, but their flight sends the local population into turmoil.

1 videocassette (124 min.)

MEDIA 2-7181

Mortu nega Those whom death refused 1988

"In 1973, independence was proclaimed [in Guinea Bissau], ending five centuries of Portuguese colonization and a decade of armed struggle. [This film], Gomes' first feature-length film, made in 1987, ... portrays this critical period in history through the story of one woman, Diminga, whose husband is fighting on the front lines. The camera captures Cabral's assassination, the ending of hostilities, and the reconstruction of the economically and spiritually devastated country. The term "Mortu Nega" means those that death did not want, and Gomes films a ceremony using 3000 extras, in which survivors call upon the dead, asking them how they can go on living in such terrible conditions"--From the Le Monde Cannes '96 Supplement, May 10.

1 videocassette (93 min.) :

DANA. MEDIA 1386 2-5164

Muriel ou, Le temps d'un retour 1991

Hélene, a widow of about forty, lives with her stepson Bernard who is haunted by the memory of Muriel, a girl tortured to death in Algeria. Hélene meets her lover of 22 years earlier, who arrives with his mistress, but neither she nor Bernard can exorcise the ghosts of the past.

1 videocassette (115 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1733

Nagstappie A walk in the night 1998?

Recounts a single terrible night in South Africa when the fragile world of Mikey Adonis, a young coloured steel worker, disintegrates; illustrates how a decent man can be driven to an act of brutality by a racist society which humiliates him at every turn.

1 videocassette (79 min.) :

DANA 1300

Neria 1992

Patrick and Neria, through shared hard work and resourcefulness, built a comfortable home, a good life and family in the city. But when their loving and equal partnership suddenly ends with the tragic death of Patrick, Neria's nightmare begins.

1 videocassette (103 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3819

The nightingale's prayer 2004?

"This compelling tale of love and betrayal, set in the upper Egyptian countryside, follows the story of Amna as she plots her revenge on the engineer who destoryed her family's honor. [The Nightingale's Prayer is] a gripping portrait of a courageous young woman's rebellion against tradition and poverty"--Container.

1 videdisc (126 min.)

MEDIA 10-323

Les noms n'habitent nulle part Names live nowhere 1994

Experiences of Senegalese living in Brussels, with commentary on African expatriates by a griot.

1 videocassette (76 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5279

The "nouba" of the women of Mount Chenoua 1995?

Story of an Algerian woman engineer who returns to Algeria after a long Western exile.

1 videocassette (115 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5399

O herói The hero 2005

The story of Vitorio a war hero, and the people he encounters, who are attempting to rebuild their lives at the same time Angola, a nation torn apart by forty years of uninterrupted war, is trying imperfectly but courageously to piece itself back together.

1 videocassette (97 min.)

MEDIA 2-7260

O testamento do Senhor. Napumoceno Napumoceno's will 1998

The film is an epic farce from one of the world's least known but most culturally complex societies - Cape Verde. This classic tale of the hollowness at the core of provincial bourgeois life introduces English speaking audiences to Germano Almeida, one of the outstanding writers in Portuguesee today. With its novelistic breadth, the film offers a bildungsroman of a man and a society so caught up in the pursuit of conventional success and prestige it overlooks its true self almost until it is too late.

1 videocassette (110 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5163

Out of Africa 1986

The story of Karen Blixen, her philandering husband, her struggles with a coffee plantation in Kenya, and her ill-fated love for a mysterious white hunter.

1 videocassette (161 min.) :

MEDIA 2-630

Outremer Overseas 1992

For three beautiful sisters, the lush and privileged life of French colonial Algeria creates an oasis in the center of a harsh desert when revolution and dramatic social change erupts around them.

1 videocassette (96 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2667

La petite vendeuse de Soleil The little girl who sold The sun 1999

Parable uses the struggles of a young crippled girl in Dakar trying to earn her living in the market place selling newspapers to mirror Africa's role in the international marketplace.

1 videocassette (44 min.)

DANA 1990

Pièces d'identités ID 1998

A Congolese king searches for his daughter in Brussels where for a time he loses his royal fetishes, his identity, but finds a friend, a local cabdriver with a secret identity. With his help and a chain of coincidence (it must be destined), Mani Kongo is reunited with his daughter and his regalia and returns to Africa with a circle of friends.

1 videocassette (94 min.)

DANA. MEDIA 1974 2-6432

Princess Tam Tam 1989

An exotic Pygmalion-like musical comedy about a French author who goes to North Africa to write a novel but becomes distracted--then entranced--by a native girl whom he transforms into a "princess.".

1 videocassette (80 min.) :

DANA. MEDIA 305 2-1293

Le prix du pardon Ndeysaan = the price of forgiveness 2001

A Lébou fishing village on the south coast of Senegal is covered in a mysterious persistent fog. Neither prayer not sacrifices can break the curse. Mbanik, the son of the dying witch doctor, dares defy the spirits and return the sun to the village. He can then declare his love for Maxoy. Yatma, his best friend and rival, is driven to murder by jealousy. For Yatma, a new curse is about to begin.

1 videocassette (91 min.)

DANA 1972

Quartier Mozart 1992

Uses traditional Cameroonian folk beliefs to explore the sexual politics of an urban neighborhood. Queen of the Hood is a proud young girl who doesn't want to be taken advantage of by men. She befriends a local sorcercess who helps her enter the body of a young stud, My Guy.

1 videocassette (81 min.) :

DANA. MEDIA 860 2-3618

Saaraba 1991

A young man returns to his homeland after spending many years in Europe. He and his homeland have changed in the interval and he is caught between his simple upbringing, the Western influence he was exposed to, and the corruption existing around him.

1 videocassette (81 min.)

MEDIA 2-6943

Samt al-qusur The silences of the palace = Les silences du palais 1996

Set in Tunisia in the 1950's in the last years of the Bey monarchy. Alia, the young servant-girl is misused by her masters and wooed by the rebel, while growing up in the palace.

1 videocassette (127 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3344

Sanders of the river 199

Commissioner Sanders, representative of the British Crown, puts down a bloody rebellion and re-establishes harmony for the pro-British river people in this tale of adventure in West Africa.

1 videocassette (85 min.) :

DANA 816

Sanders of the river 1984

Commissioner Sanders, an English colonial officer in the Nigerian River country, thwarts the warlike plans of the old chief Mofalaba with the help of Chief Bosambo.

1 videocassette (85 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1234

Sango Malo 1991

A young teacher, Sango Malo, comes to a rural village with ideas of promoting rural development through practical education; he clashes with the established headmaster, who insists on a traditional French-style education. Malo alienates many of his supporters through his impatience and is arrested by the army on the behalf of the village chief, storeowner and priest. But he has taught well and the the villagers carry on his ideas without him.

1 videocassette (94 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5270

Sankofa 1993

"Sankofa, an Akan word meaning 'one must return to the past in order to move forward,' is the story about the transformation of Mona, a self-possessed African-American woman sent on a spiritual journey in time to experience the pain of slavery and the discovery of her African identity"--Container.

1 videocassette (125 min.) :

DANA. MEDIA 586 2-2598

Sizwe Bansi is dead 1978

Discusses stylization, avant-gardism, black theatre, and realism using Athol Fugard's play Sizwe Bansi is dead.

1 videocassette (60 min.) :

DANA. MEDIA 558 2-1762

Song of freedom 1936

Paul Robeson plays a stevedore-turned-concert singer who journeys to Africa in search of his roots.

1 videocassette (80 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1303

Taafe fanga Pouvoir de pagne = Skirt power 1997

A boy born during a lunar eclipse survives abandonment and inherits magical powers. This proleptic tale of a comic revolution in which, in part, was inspired by the role women played in Mali's 1991 revolution.

1 videocassette (99 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3380

Tableau ferraille 1997

Daam, a well-intentioned but weak young European-trained politician, must choose in both his public and private life between the traditional values of his first wife, the barren Gagnesiri, and the modern, individualistic values of his second wife, Kiné.

1 videocassette (88 min.)

MEDIA 2-6913

Three tales from Senegal histories de petites gens 1994

Le franc / un film de Djibril Diop Mambety (45 min.) -- Picc mi / un film de Mansour Sora Wade (20 min.) -- Fary l'anesse / un film de Mansour Sora Wade (17 min.)Le franc is a parable about the plight of everyday Africans buffeted by the changing winds of the international monetary system. Picc mi (Little bird) is a story of two destitute boys who escape the predatory demands of adults to spend one day of freedom together. Fary l'anesse (Fary, the donkey) is a tale of a man led into folly by his pursuit of the perfect woman. When he thinks he has finally found her, she turns out to be a donkey.

1 videocassette (82 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2992

Tilaï 1995

Saga returns to his village to find that his fiancée Nogma is now his father's second wife. Saga can do nothing about the marriage within the law of the tribe. Saga and Nogma still love each other. The village views their relationship as incest. The couple leave the village to live outside the law.

1 videocassette (81 min.) :

DANA. MEDIA 857 2-6114

Udju azul di Yonta The blue eyes of Yonta 1994

Uses the device of a young woman's search for the author of a love letter to explore the political and social environment in the former Portuguese overseas province of Portuguese Guinea, now the independent country of Guinea-Bissau.

1 videocassette (92 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3625

La Vie est belle 1991

Tells the rags to riches story of Kourou, a poor rural musician who realizes that to succeed in today's music world he must go to the city and break into radio and television. In Kinshasa he uses his wit and talent to win a beautiful wife, trick his greedy boss and succeed in singing his "theme song" on national television. Although the film is primarily entertainment, it reveals much about class divisions, male-female relations, the desires of the urban poor, and the economic and social problems confronting rural immigrants to the cities of Zaire.

1 videocassette (83 min.) :

DANA. MEDIA 859 2-3615

La vie sur terre Life on earth 2000

A fictional documentary by the filmmaker which points out the significance of the start of the 21st century and our so-called Information Age while the people in Sokolo, his father's village in Mali, are still struggling to enter the 20th century.

1 videocassette (60 min.)

DANA 1986

Wênd K uuni Le don de Dieu 1982

A mute, memoryless child is raised in an African village by a weaver and his family. In gratitude they rename him Wênd K uuni, or "God's gift." In a series of flashbacks, we learn how bigotry and cruelty ironically drove Wênd K uuni to discover the compassion of his adopted village.

1 videocassette (70 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5326

White mischief 1988

The year is 1940. War is raging in England, but that doesn't faze the wealthy colonists in Kenya. The "Happy Valley" set is far less interested in world affairs than sexual affairs. Not to mention polo, champagne and cross-dressing.

1 videocassette (108 min.) :

MEDIA 2-665

Wild gunman 1998?

Wild gunman (20 min.)--Rocketkitkongokit (30 min.)Wild gunman--From the opening loop of repeated exhortations to "shoot" and continuing through a frentic montage of clips from feature films, commercials, documentaries and newsreels the emphasis is on society's eventual self- destruction. Rocketkitkongokit--Stylistic portrayal of the history of the newly established country of Zaire (Congo Democratic Republic). The narrative follows the rise of dictator Joseph Mobutu, the establishment of the German rocket program and internal rebellions with external influences. Ends with a fictional climax.

1 videocassette (50 min.) :

MEDIA 2-3931

Xala 198

A savage satire on the impotence of young African nations over-dependent on European technology and white bureaucratic structures.

1 videocassette (123 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1788

Yaaba 1989

An old woman pariah is befriended by a young boy. During a brawl, the boy's friend is cut by a rusty knife and she contracts a fever. The local witch doctor claims the old woman's evil spirit has entered the girl. The old woman seeks the assistance of an old medicine man who provides a cure.

1 videocassette (90 min.) :

DANA 1218

Yeelen The light 1987

Shows the destructive conflict between a father and son who vie with each other for knowledge of the secrets of nature.

1 videocassette (105 min.)

DANA 357