Yembi 2018
Kossi and Yembi, a young couple get happily married and swear to always love each other. Ten years later a lot have changed. They spend less time together & argue a lot. Their marriage seems to be falling apart
Kossi and Yembi, a young couple get happily married and swear to always love each other. Ten years later a lot have changed. They spend less time together & argue a lot. Their marriage seems to be falling apart
A young Ugandan-American girl gains a new understanding of her family and her place in the world as she travels with her mother and brother from New York to Oklahoma, in this richly textured drama by Crystal Kayiza.
Mbambu is a sixteen-year-old girl who lives at the foot of the Rwenzori Mountains in Uganda. She is also an actress, an aspiring mountain guide and hopes to be the first in her family to complete secondary school. These are significant ambitions for anyone; in Uganda, they are nearly unheard of for a young girl. If Mbambu becomes a guide in the Rwenzoris - an impressive accomplishment in its own right because the mountains reach to nearly 17,000 feet - she would break all sorts of cultural and societal barriers for women in West Uganda. As this film tells the story of a hopeful Bakonzo girl, it also examines a culture transitioning from harmful poaching practices into more sustainable livelihoods.
A successful married big city pharmacist returns to the village for her sisters wedding only to discover that her first love still pines for her with dire consequences.
An African fable of sisterhood, envy and ancient evil. The story of Ala and Coa from the Leopards tribe. When her sister outshines her once again, Coa meets a mysterious entity, the morning star and the bestower of gifts, that can grant her wish...
After apocalypse, a chief aims to seek for a cure for a virus which killed plenty of people so as to take over by capturing and use them for testing, one of the captives' daughter takes a quest to look for and rescue her father from hands of the brutal gang led by a warrior who is promised wealth and marriage with chief's niece.
Tanzanian Predator
After being released from jail, Jitu decides to change his bad behavior and become a good person.
Coming from another country, there is a quest for belonging and an (im)possibility to completely feel at home.
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.
Samaki wa Dar es Salaam/Fishers of Dar is an ethnographic film about the fishermen and women of downtown Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. It explores the continuity and integrity of traditional fishing practices in new, contemporary settings
A virgin in a coastal East African town becomes mysteriously pregnant weeks before her wedding, forcing her family to confront faith, tradition, and her right to choose.
Following the everyday life of 21-year-old Samira from Zanzibar for 7 years, NDOTO YA SAMIRA depicts the quiet victories of a determined young woman.
In a rural village, an orphaned girl named Star races against time to prove her family lineage and claim her land deed, facing obstacles from hostile neighbors and shady organizations while unexpectedly finding romance along the way.
What does it mean to be of a place? Of the sun and soil and bees, of the water and black ants and cowpeas. To be so entangled with an ecosystem, generation after generation, that nature and culture become one? Clans living in Tharaka, Kenya, have been subjected to colonialism and all that follows. Their indigeneity unthreaded by a powerful few pulling the world apart for profit. But Atharaka – ‘those of Tharaka’ – are remembering the power in their identity. Beside the Kithino River, they are reviving customs and enabling nature to regenerate: rethreading a complex biocultural system that brings balance, autonomy, and joy.
Tanzania's first feature-length film.
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.
An affluent guy goes to visit his girlfriend home in the ghetto where all kinds of drama ensues. Kiumeni is a Swahili comedy/love story that brings two distinct worlds together; when an affluent guy goes to visit his less privileged girlfriend at her home in the ghetto. Their young love is suddenly overcome with challenges, near-death experiences and hilarious comebacks that put their union to the test
Otis Janam, a lazy fisherman, wins a boat racing championship and the hand in marriage of the wealthiest man's daughter. Can a good woman save a fool from his destiny?
A young woman forced to clean up a murder discovers a deadly secret that puts her in a fight for survival.