Populär Vun Uganda

Tanzanian Predator

The Democratic Republic of Congo could feed almost 1 in 2 people on Earth. Yet one in six Congolese people suffer from hunger. Yet one in two Congolese suffers from moderate acute malnutrition. Yet agriculture accounts for 70% of the population there. Faced with this paradox, the peasants regroup in agricultural cooperatives. A handful of them share their daily lives with us, that of all those they represent. Even if they don't know each other, live thousands of hundreds of kilometers from each other, participate in different agricultural sectors, their voices resonate in this powerful, sensitive and sincere documentary.

People who seek wealth and success through local beliefs - A documentary on the hunting of people with albinism in Tanzania, where the hunter and the prey speak.

In a rural Maasai village in Tanzania, a primary school girl is suddenly confronted by an arranged marriage.

In this documentary, filmmaker Bram Van Paesschen takes us to Katanga province, in the south of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Back in the days of Belgian colonial rule, Katanga was a prosperous mining area. It is now a devastated ruin; its vast industrial ghost sites and rusting machinery are now nothing more than a lasting reminder of its glory days... glorious for the whites.

After successfully pulling off a heist, six university students live a life on the run as jealously and greed put their friendships to the test.

Since his father is ill, young Fari must help his brother Danford on the fishing boat, although he’s afraid of the deep. Far out on the open sea, neither wants to admit that they might not be up to the task.

Six Congolese women refugees in Kenya and Uganda struggle to overcome the physical and emotional scars caused by the violence they have suffered in their home country.

A hearty film in Kamba about two gentlemen and a pan of food.

PEPO KALI follows Wairimu, a woman in her 50s, as she learns to ride a motorcycle after her daughter's fatal accident. As she grapples with grief, mastering her daughter's passion becomes both a solace and a struggle.

She is in prison, waiting. But he has a long way to travel and arrives too late. He wanders through the strange city, lost, until he meets a woman who is willing to help him with some gentle magic.

In a struggle to get himself and his family out of debt and poverty, Baraka quits school and decides to enter a professional boxing competition to get the money he desperately need. Will he succeed?

Homesickness drives Neema Ngelime to the district of Matonge in Brussels, which is home to a large African community. The busy shopping streets evoke memories of her life in Tanzania. She wants to record the similarities with her native land for her grandmother, but that is easier said than done. As in Tanzania, most people on the street prefer not to be filmed. Yet, Ngelime gradually gets closer to the shopkeepers and customers of Chaussée de Wavre, and shares her observations with the viewer.

A man listens to music on a cassette. It seems to have been composed by an amateur. Then, on stage, he is now the conductor of an orchestra and this time, it’s he who is playing this music.

Mureithi started this project after the 2007/8 post-election violence in Kenya left more than 1,200 people dead and 500,000 displaced in his home country. His goal: To understand how to confront unresolved trauma and heal — before the March 2013 elections. He has released an early version of the 60-minute documentary in advance of the upcoming elections in an effort to stave off another round of violence. Film critic Roger Ebert called the work "an urgent documentary by a filmmaker I admire."

Suffering from a serious illness, Mariamu and those around her find themselves in conflict with their traditional values.

A young man living in Dar es Salaam meets an old man who takes him in as his son and eventually sends him off to Nigeria to look for his three children. The only link to finding them is a set of negative films and an address. The story is about his adventures in a foreign land and how he finally meets them and reunites them with their father.

A day in the life of Mozambican women refugees working in a quarry outside Dar es Salaam.