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Last updated October 2001
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Please note the following abbreviations:
MP : 16mm film
VC : VHS videotape
VC 3/4 : 3/4" videotape
AFRICA SERIES
52 min. each 1984 RM Arts Prod.
1. DIFFERENT BUT EQUAL VC #1206 and #4494
Traces the early history of the continent noting that some of the
world's greatest prehistoric civilizations had their origins in
Africa.
2. MASTERING A CONTINENT VC #1207 and #4494
Examines how African farmers created a viable way of life in an
often hostile environment.
3. CARAVANS OF GOLD VC #1208 and #4495
Examines Africa's pivotal role in the medieval trade routes and
shows how the continent benefitted economically and culturally
from it.
4. KINGS AND CITIES VC #1209 and #4495
Explores the ways in which the early African kingdoms functioned.
5. THE BIBLE AND THE GUN VC #1210 and #4496
Looks at the impact of the slave trade on the continent and at
the influx of explorers and missionaries that followed it.
6. THIS MAGNIFICENT AFRICAN CAKE VC #1211 and #4496
Points out the different ways in which colonial control was
established in several African colonies, from the late 1800's to
the mid 1900's.
7. THE RISE OF NATIONALISM VC #1212 and #4497
Examines several major national issues ranging from struggles for
independence to attempts at creating an African Unity.
8. THE LEGACY VC #1213 and #4497
Explores the problems and successes of the African states in the
aftermath of colonial rule.
AFRICAN BRUSH STROKES
57 min. 1996 VC #4859
Villon Films
Three West Coast Canadian artists Claudine Pommier, Alberto Cerritos and
Thomas Anfield describes their encounters with West African artists and arts,
and the murals they create with local artists.
AIDS IN AFRICA
52 min. 1990 VC #2120
National Film Board of Canada
Investigates the spread of AIDS in Africa and the economic and
cultural obstacles that make the disease difficult to control.
ALL EYES ON AFRICA
60 min. 1993 VC #4245
Clem Marshall/Black Secretariat
Provides positive images of African art and culture with particular emphasis on the sculpture,
weaving and music.
BABOONA: AN AERIAL EPIC OVER AFRICA
73 min. 1935 VC Feature
Martin and Osa Johnson
Husband-and-wife explorers take an aerial safari in Africa, photographing the
large herds of zebra, giraffes, hippos, baboons and other wildlife they
encounter. They also record their encounters with various African peoples,
including the Masai and the Pygmies.
BINTU AND HER NEW AFRICAN RICE: A GENETIC BRIDGE TO FOOD SECURITY
27 min. 1998 VC #5250
AGCOM International
The West Africa Rice Development Association scientists have used genetic
technology to produce a new African rice, with the productivity of Asian and the
hardiness and pest resistance of African varieties. For farmers like Bintu
who were involved in the research, this has meant increased crops and earlier harvests.
BLACK ATHENA
52 min. 1991 VC #2619
Bandurs Ltd.
Shows how Professor Martin Bernal and the 19th century scholars
he criticizes, have both used archaeological evidence selectively
to advance their ideas.
BURDEN ON THE LAND
53 min. 1991 VC #2755
Roger Pyke
Looks at international development in Africa: what works, what
doesn't and why.
CAMERA D'AFRICA: TWENTY YEARS OF AFRICAN CINEMA
96 min. 1983 VC #3616
Ferid Boughedir
Tells the story of a few men and women who have shared the dream
that cinema be the voice of Africa.
DISTRESS SIGNALS: AN INVESTIGATION OF GLOBAL TELEVISION
55 min. 1990 VC #2146
National Film Board of Canada
Shows the problems of local broadcast industries in Africa and
Canada as they compete for audiences with cheap American
programming.
THE FACES OF AIDS
21 min. 1992 VC #5065
Media for Development International
Individuals infected with AIDS, together with their families and health care workers,
talk about how the disease effects on communities in Cameroon and Zimbabwe.
FEMMES AUX YEUX OUVERTES (WOMEN WITH OPEN EYES)
50 min. 1993 VC #3617
California Newsreel
Outlines the social and economic conditions in Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire,
Benin, Mali and Senegal that contribute to the subjection of women: female
circumcision, forced marriage and forced remarriage of widows, and the impact of
AIDS.
THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY
109 min. 1984 VC Feature
Jamie Uys
A discarded coke bottle falls amidst an isolated tribe of African bushmen
triggering a number of comic problems.
HISTORY BOOK SERIES:
16 min. each 1973 Film Front
2. AT DAWN, OVERCOMING ALL DIFFICULTIES MP #2013/VC #0402
On his second expedition to India, Vasco de Gama attempts to
secure a base on the African coast.
4. BLOODY SCHEMES MP #2034/VC #0404
John Hawkins begins the 1562 slave trade from Africa to America .
6. MAKESHIFT SOLUTIONS MP #2169/VC #0406
Capitalists develop Africa as colonies with cheap labour in
response to the power of European workers.
9. A NEW DAWN MP #2187/VC #0409
The Portuguese colony of Guinea Bisseau gains independence in
1973.
HYANES-HYENAS
113 min. 1992 VC FEATURE
Djibril Diop Mamety
An old woman who has become rich, returns to her African village
of birth to wreak revenge on the lover who betrayed her decades
earlier.
IN AND OUT OF AFRICA
59 min. 1992 VC #2921
U. of Southern California
Documents the multimillion dollar international trade in African
art that is largely controlled by Muslim merchants.
JAGUAR
93 min. 1955 MP #4151-4153
Jean Rouch
Portrays the exhilarating sense of opportunity that existed in
West Africa in the 1950's.
JERICHO
77 min. 1937 VC FEATURE
Thorton Freeland
Paul Robeson plays a man who is wrongfully convicted in France and escapes
for North Africa where he becomes a desert sheik.
JVC VIDEO ANTHOLOGY OF WORLD MUSIC AND DANCE SERIES:
17. MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA II: EGYPT, TUNISIA, MOROCCO,
MALI, CAMEROON, ZAIRE, TANZANIA
55 min. 1990 VC #2096
18. MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA III: CHAD, CAMEROON
40 min. 1990 VC #2097
19. MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA IV: IVORY COAST, BOTSWANA,
REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
43 min. 1990 VC #2098
KING SOLOMON'S MINES
80 min. 1937 VC Feature
Robert Stevenson
The search for King Solomon's mines leads a safari through the
treacherous terrain of the desert, fending off sandstorms, Zulus,
and a volcanic eruption.
A MATCH FOR LIFE
27 min. 1998 VC #5452
Match International
Match International works with women's groups to enable them to improve their
lives. Projects include a shelter for battered women in Lima, Peru, run by an
indigenous Peruvian woman; a campaign run by a woman's organization in Mali, to raise
awareness of female genital mutilation; a woman's group in Nepal aids
rural women to have clean water piped into their village; in Zimbabwe,
the strong women's movement works to help women speak out on their issues, and
last, women in Trinidad and Tobago campaign against domestic violence.
MATTER OF CHOICE
47 min. 1993 VC #2278
Antelope Prod.
Compares the quality of life in Morocco, where population growth
is controlled through family planning, with Ghana, where family
size remains at 6 to 7 people.
MILLENNIUM: TRIBAL WISDOM AND THE MODERN WORLD
5. THE ART OF LIVING
60 min. 1991 VC #2687
New Vision Media
Host David Maybury-Lewis visits the Wodaabe tribe of Niger and
the Dogon peoples of Mali to witness their expression of art in
their daily activities.
QUEEN VICTORIA'S EMPIRE, PART 2
120 min. 2001 VC #6128
History Channel
3. The Moral crusade - by 1861, Britain is the wealthiest and most powerful
nation on earth. David Livingston explores the African interior. Disraeli
and Gladstone battle for control of the British government. The purchase of
the Suez Canal solidifies British presence in the Middle East.
4. The scramble for Africa - the Suez Canal is threatened by a holy war in
the Sudan. Cecil Rhodes prospects diamond deposits in southern Africa and
asserts British control in the region. However, as Victoria celebrates her
Diamond Jubilee, the empire is on the verge of its darkest hours. The Boer
War leads to devastating losses and a reassessment of British purpose.
RICH MAN'S MEDICINE, POOR MAN'S MEDICINE
43 min. 1976 MP #4501
G. Troeller
Shows how western medicine and African healing practices are set
against one another, and suggests how they could be of mutual
benefit.
RITES
52 min. 1991 VC #2576
Channel Four
Explores the custom of female circumcision which has been
commonplace throughout history and the efforts by women to stop
the practice.
SANDERS OF THE RIVER
85 min. 1935 VC FEATURE
Zoltan Korda
Commissioner Sanders, representative of the British Crown, puts
down a rebellion and re-establishes harmony for the pro-British
people in West Africa.
SHIP OF SLAVES: THE MIDDLE PASSAGE
50 min. 1997 VC #5832
Christen Harty Schaefer
Details the trials and tribulations of the slaves on their voyage from Africa to the Americas
on slave ships. This transatlantic slave trade which lasted 300 years was known in history as
the black holocaust.
SONG OF FREEDOM
80 min. 1936 VC FEATURE
J.Elder Wills
Paul Robeson plays an English labourer who returns to Africa to recover his heritage.
STRANGERS ABROAD SERIES:
STRANGE BELIEFS
52 min. 1985 VC #1418
Central TV
Reviews the work of anthropologist Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard
(1902-1973) who studied the Azande and Nuer peoples.
TO BE A WOMAN
23 min. 1992
VC #4066
All Africa Conference of Churches
Assesses the impact on women of government efforts to manage their countries economies.
TOOLS OF CHANGE: INTRODUCTION TO APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY
30 min. 1978 MP #3684
Teldok
Explores the role of technology in development relating
appropriateness to development goals instead of to size.
TREES OF HOPE
18 min. 1985 MP #2434
International Development Research Centre
Documents rapid deforestation of Africa and analyzes various
solutions. Emphasizes the importance of reforestation using the
example of a village woodlot project in Niger. Shows people in
Maui, Senegal and Nigeria being taught to plant trees for
firewood and construction material.
WARRIOR MARKS
54 min. 1993 VC #3283
Pratibha Parmar
Looks at the cultural and political complexities surrounding about female
genital mutilation. Includes interviews with victims, activists against
female circumcision, and circumcizers.
WITH THESE HANDS: HOW WOMEN FEED AFRICA
33 min. 1986 VC #0473
New Internationalist Pub.
African women voice their concerns about the lack of assistance
given to rural African women who are responsible for 75% of food
production.
WOMEN AT RISK
56 min. 1991 VC #2964
Filmwest Assoc.
Profiles three female refugees to show the kinds of abuse they
encounter. Includes a 40 year old Mozambique woman alone with
four children in Zambia.
WONDERS OF THE AFRICAN WORLD SERIES:
60 min. each 1999 PBS VIDEO
1/2. THE BLACK KINGDOMS OF THE NILE/THE SWAHILI COAST VC #5684
1. Journeys through Egypt and the Sudan and through the desert to Meroe, in
search of ancient Nubia and the great civilization that once rivalled Egypt.
2. Travels along the coast of Kenya and Tanzania to the legendary island of
Zanzibar; investigates the historical puzzle Who are the Swahili people?
3/4. THE SLAVE KINGDOMS/THE HOLY LAND VC #5685
3. Travels through the old West African kingdoms of Asante and Dahomey in
modern Ghana and Benin to unravel the real story of the transatlantic slave trade.
4. For over 1600 years, Ethiopia was a Christian kingdom. Visits churches, mountain
monasteries and royal shrines and finally to Aksum.
5/6. THE ROAD TO TIMBUKTU/THE LOST CITIES OF THE SOUTH VC #5686
5. Sets out on a journey through modern Mali, following ancient trade routes from the
goldmines of the south to the legendary city of Timbuktu.
6. Traveling from South Africa to Zimbabwe, explores a 1000 year old African city,
and heads for the medieval stone citadel of Great Zimbabwe.
ALGERIA'S HIDDEN WAR 40 min. 1994 VC #1267 British Broadcasting Corporation Since the military cancelled the 1992 elections which the Islamic fundamentalists were poised to win, more than 20,000 people have died in Algeria as a result of an anti-terrorist crackdown. THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS 123 min. 1967 VC Feature Gillo Pontecorvo Dramatization of the conflict between Algerian nationalists and French colonialists that culminated in Algeria's independence in 1962. BEYOND BORDERS: ARAB FEMINISTS TALK ABOUT THEIR LIVES...EAST AND WEST 49 min. 1999 VC #6364 National Film Board of Canada Follows a delegation of Arab women activists, from Sudan, Algeria, Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan and the Palestinian territory, as they tour the United States, to sensitize North Americans to Arab feminism and the effects of American foreign policy. FRANTZ FANON: BLACK SKIN, WHITE MASK 50 min. 1995 VC #3863 California Newsreel Biography of Frantz Fanon, one of the influential theorists of the anti-colonial movements of the 20th century. Follows him from birth in Martinique through medical training in France to his work at a psychiatric hospital in Algeria, and his involvement in the struggle for Algerian liberation, during which time he wrote the influential "Wretched of the earth". LA MOTIE DU CIEL D'ALLAH (AKA WOMEN IN ALGERIA) 52 min. 1995 VC #4318 Djamila Sahraoui Women recount an ongoing fight for equality, despite their contribution to the country's war for independence. REMEMBERING MEMORY 53 min. 1998 VC #0272 National Film Board of Canada Born in Algeria in 1937, Helene Cixous has been called the greatest living French-language writer. This film, inspired by her autobiographical writings, explores her literary universe, tracing her family history--from the migrations of Moroccan, Algerian, German and Slovak Jews--through to her birth in Oran and immigration to France in 1955.
THE SOVIETS AT THE CROSSROADS SERIES A.K.A. END OF AN EMPIRE ANGOLA 54 min. 1990 VC #1738 Stornoway Prod. Interviews with Portuguese, American, Cuban and UNITA participants tell the complex story of Angola's prolonged civil war. MOPIOPIO 54 min. 1992 VC #3698 Zeze Gamboa Tours the streets, dance halls and the concerts of Luanda, capital of Angola, and reveals the range of Angolan popular music. Musicians talk about their lives and their musical roots. ROSTOV-LUANDA 60 min. 1997 VC Feature Abderrahmane Sissako Sissako spent a year in Rostov on the Don where he became friends with a young man from Angola. He encounters present-day Angola and traces the lines of Africa's recent history as he searches for a friend of the past.
DIVINE CARCASSE(DIVINE BODY) 60 min. 1998 VC #5040 Dominique Loreau A second-hand car, passed on by a European teacher, is refashioned by a local artist into a statue of the god Agbo who is thought to protect villagers from harm.
THE FAMILY OF MAN 4. WEDDINGS 45 min. 1970 MP #4340 British Broadcasting Corporation Compares wedding celebrations in Esher and Coine in England, in New Guinea, in Botswana and in a Himalayan village. THE HUNTERS 73 min. 1958 MP #4138-4139 Harvard U. Documents the hunting practices of the Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert as they track a giraffe. LIONS OF DARKNESS 72 min. 1994 VC #3875 National Geographic Story of a growing lion pride in Botswana that begins as three outsiders -young and agressive-invade the pride's territory and depose its aged leader. REFLECTIONS ON ELEPHANTS 1994 60min VC #3871 National Geographic Captures the drama of Africa's largest free-roaming elephant herds on their journey across the bush country of northern Botswana.
WEND KUUNI: LE DON DE DIEU 68 min. 1982 VC FEATURE Gaston Kabore/Direction du Cinema Uses African oral storytelling to tell the story of a child, who is found by a pedler under a tree and is adopted by the village. ZAN BOKO 91 min. 1988 VC FEATURE Gaston Kabore/Direction du Cinema Tells the story of a village swallowed up by one of Africa's sprawling cities.
GITO THE UNGRATEFUL 90 min. 1992 VC FEATURE Leonce Ngabo A student from Burundi studying in Paris returns home with illusions of quick success in a government job.
AFRIQUE, JE TE PLUMERAI(AFRICA, I'M GOING TO FLEECE YOU) 88 min. 1992 VC Feature Jean-Marie Teno Sardonic essay on the history of colonialism in Cameroon, and by extension, on the African continent. Focuses on historical as well as contemporary European cultural domination, particularly in the publishing and media industry. CHEF! (CHIEF) and LA TETE DANS LES NUAGES(HEAD IN THE CLOUDS) 96 min. 1999 VC Feature Jean-Marie Teno Chef!: Teno locates the roots of Africa's authoritarian regimes in the patriarchal family, reinforced by traditional kingship and the colonial experience. La tete dans les nuages: Teno investigates the ties between unaccountable government and an unproductive economy. CLANDO(CLANDSTINE) 96 min. 1996 VC Feature Jean-Marie Teno A drama of political intrigue and betrayal. Antoine, having aided young activists during an election, finds himself imprisoned. On his release, he discovers his colleague has betrayed him. He then becomes involved as a witness to the revenge on one of the police who tortured prisoners. QUARTIER MOZART 80 min. 1992 VC FEATURE Jean-Pierre Bekolo/Kola Case In this sex farce, women's wisdom and "witchcraft" help to temporarily regain the balance of power in a sexist world. SANGO MALO 95 min. 1991 VC FEATURE Bassek Ba Kobhio/Films Terre Africain Conflict arises in a rural village high school when the headmaster and a new teacher disagree over the introduction of sex education and vocational training into the curriculum.
NAPUMOCENO'S WILL(O TESTAMENTO DO SENHOR NAPUMOCENO) 110min. 1998 VC Feature Francisco Manso Napumoceno, a successful if ruthless businessman in Cape Verde, reveals, in his will, his more human side, and sets the lives of his illegitimate daughter and his nephew on new courses. SONGS OF THE BADIUS 35 min. 1986 MP #4508 Gei Zantzinger Presents music of the Kriolu people of the Cape Verde Islands who descended from Portuguese colonists and African slaves.
CHILD BRIDES
51 min. 1998 VC #5619
Films for the Humanities
Travels to the most rural and poverty-stricken regions of Ethiopia to expose
the common practice of child brides and the consequences for the young girls who
often give birth before they are out of childhood.
DELUGE(YAWANEZE MICEBALE)
61 min. 1995 VC #4745
Salem Mekuri
Through interviews, letters, photographs, and film footage, Salem Mekuria
looks at her family's history and the history of Ethiopia from the late
1960s to the early 1990s.
CONSUMING HUNGER, PART I: GETTING THE STORY
30 min. 1987 VC #1784
Maryknoll Productions
Investigates North American television coverage of the Ethiopian
famine and concludes that broadcasters ignored the event until it
reached tragic proportions.
CONSUMING HUNGER, PART II: SHAPING THE IMAGE
30 min. 1987 VC #1785
Maryknoll Productions
Questions the usefulness of media events like the Live Aid
Concert for Ethiopian famine relief.
IN SEARCH OF COOL GROUND
Granada TV
1. THE MURSI
52 min. 1985 VC #2787
Documents the changes for the Mursi tribe as drought and famine
drive them into contact with the outside world.
2. THE KWEGU
52 min. 1985 VC #2786
Documents the changes for the Kwegu tribe as drought and famine
drive them into contact with the outside world.
3. THE MIGRANTS
52 min. 1985 VC #2793
Documents the changes for the Mursi and Kwegu tribes as drought
and famine drive them into contact with the outside world.
THE SOVIETS AT THE CROSSROADS SERIES A.K.A. END OF AN EMPIRE
3. THE HORN OF AFRICA
54 min. 1990 VC #1739
Stornoway Productions
Focuses on the superpower role of the Soviet Union and the use of
humanitarian aid for famine relief in Africa as a political
weapon.
LE GRAND BLANC DE LAMBARENE(THE GREAT WHITE MAN OF LAMBARENE) 93 min. 1995 VC #4390 Bassek Ba Kobhi Shot on the site of Albert Schweitzer's hospital in Gabon the filmmaker provides a revisionist perspective of the Nobel Peace Prize winner and secular saint of the colonial era.
MUSIC OF THE MANDE, PART III: GAMBIAN TANTANGO DRUMMING 37 min. 1995 VC #5924 Roderic Knight The Mandinka people play drums for a variety of occasions. The drum troupe consists of three players, a leader playing the long and slender savaro, and two supporting players on the kutiribaa and kutirindingo, large and small conical drums. Presents a cross-section of typical drumming events. REPERCUSSIONS: A CELEBRATION OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSIC SERIES: 1. BORN MUSICIANS: TRADITIONAL MUSIC FROM THE GAMBIA 60 min. 1984 VC #1578 Third Eye Productions Focuses on the professional musicians of the West African Savannah and in particular on the Mandinka music of Gambia. THE TOURIST TRADE 18 min. 1991 VC #2550 Coronet Films Examines the contributions of tourism to economic development in Gambia and Sierra Leone and its threat to traditional culture.
THE ASHANTI KINGDOM
14 min. 1992 VC #0753
Films for the Humanities
Explanations of the strict hierarchical organization of the
village, importance if the kente garment, traditonal values,
festivals, naming of the children, religious beliefs and the
protocol of surrounding the paramount chief of the Ashanti.
ATUMPAN
42 min. 1969 MP #4018
U. of California
The story and sounds of the talking master drum of the Ashanti,
revealing its role in Ghanian society.
BONO MEDICINES
58 min. 1983 MP #3075-3076
White Pine Films
Documents the cooperative efforts of western doctors and Bono
herbalists and priests to improve health care in Ghana.
A GREAT TREE HAS FALLEN
23 min. 1972 MP #3584
Robert Lang
Documents the funeral for King Osei Agyeman Premph II in Kumasi,
Ghana when thousands came to pay their respects to the old King
and to welcome the new.
LES MAITRES FOUS
29 min. 1953 MP #3405
Jean Rouch
Documents an annual ceremony accompanied by spirit possession
among the Hauka tribe in Ghana.
THE MONEY LENDERS: THE WORLD BANK AND INTERNATIONAL
MONETARY FUND
85 min. 1992 VC #2392
Robert Richter
Focuses on the questionable role of the World Bank and the
International Monetary Fund in Bolivia, Ghana, Brazil, Thailand
and the Philippines.
NO SPARE PARTS
22 min. 1990 VC #2721
Asterisk Prod.
Shows the ingenuity of Ghanaians who make good use of scrap
metal, such as car parts, to manufacture basic metal products.
REPERCUSSIONS: A CELEBRATION OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSIC SERIES:
Third Eye Productions
5. THE DRUMS OF DAGBON
60 min. 1984 VC #1582
The Dagbamba drummers in northern Ghana play crucial integrative
social and political roles in their courtly society.
7. AFRICA COME BACK: THE POPULAR MUSIC OF WEST AFRICA
60 min. 1984 VC #1584
Looks at the development of the popular music industry in Ghana.
ALLAH TANTOU, A LA GRACE DE DIEU 1991 62min VC Feature David Achkar Uses home movies, old newsreels, letters and fictional reconstruction of imprisonment to examine the life of the filmmaker's father, a diplomat under the Sekou Toure regime, who later disappeared into the Guinean gulag. DAKAN 86 min. 1997 VC Feature Mohamed Camara The harsh reaction of their parents to the revelation of the love between two boys, Sori and Manga, causes both to fall ill. Manga is sent to a traditional healer but memory is strong and he finds Sori, who is married and farming his family's lands. DONKA: X-RAY OF AN AFRICAN HOSPITAL 1996 59min VC #4766 Zeaux Productions/Doctors without Borders Follows daily life in the country's largest public hospital in Conakry.
MORTU NEGA (THOSE WHOM DEATH REFUSED) 1987 83min VC Feature Flora Gomes In 1973, five centuries of Portuguese colonization and a decade of armed struggle ended. Portrays this critical period through the story of Diminga, whose husband is fighting on the front lines. The camera captures Cabral's assassination, the ending of hostilities, and reconstruction of the economically and spiritually devastated country. UDJU AZUL DI YONTA(THE BLUE EYES OF YONTA) 90 min. 1994 VC FEATURE Angela Cerveira, Ana Costa 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 province.
A TALE OF TWO CITIZENS 18 min. 1991 VC #2549 Coronet Films Two young entrepreneurs illustrate different ways of surviving in the tough environment of Abidjan, the capital of the Ivory Coast. WOUBI CHER 62 min. 1998 VC #5036 Philip Brooks/Laurent Bocahut Often funny, sometimes ribald, this documentary introduces gender pioneers demanding their right to construct a distinct African homosexuality.
AFRICA'S CHILDREN 58 min. 2000 VC #6093 Inca Productions Chronicles the stories of four East African girls: their hopes, dreams and the harsh realities. In a society rich with tradition but surrounded by the opportunities and temptations of the modern world, this film explores the dilemma regarding whether women can develop a new role for themselves without destroying the society that nurtured them. AFRICAN MARKET WOMEN 71 min. 1990 VC #0424 National Film Board of Canada Documents the measures designed by East African women to get the credit they need, becoming significant participants in their local economies. BABOON TALES 52 min 1998 VC #5128 Cine Fete Incorporates 26 years of accumulated field work undertaken by anthropologist/primatologist Dr. Shirley Strum. Follows five infant olive baboons from birth through the first year of life in the almost decade-long journey to baboon adulthood. CHRONICLE OF A SAVANNA MARRIAGE 56 min. 1998 VC #4832 Filmakers Library Starting in 1979, the filmmaker follows the life of Nayiani, a Masai on the savanna of southern Kenya, who at the age of fourteen is promised in marriage to the son of her father's good friend. FROM THE SHORE 16 min. 1990 MP #NFB 05C002 National Film Board of Canada For centuries the men of the village of Shimoni, Kenya have gone fishing; the women have made handicrafts. Now all that has changed. A small group of women in this Muslim village bought a boat and now employ the men in a thriving fish business. GROWING UP IN THE WORLD NEXT DOOR 58 min. 1988 VC #0381 National Film Board of Canada Profiles three third world teenagers who have benefited from their communities' involvement in international development projects. Includes Michael from Kenya RICHARD LEAKEY: THE MAN WHO SAVED THE ANIMALS 50 min. 1995 VC #4360 Yorkshire TV Depicts the life and work of the world-famous crusader for African wildlife.
SONGS OF THE ADVENTURERS 48 min. 1987 MP #4507 Gei Zantzinger Presents difela of Lesotho's miners, poetic songs which are a blend of African history, traditions and personal autobiography.
ANGANO....ANGANO TALES FROM MADAGASCAR 64 min. 1989 VC #2293 Laterit Prod. Recounts the founding myths of Malagasy culture, the creation of Man and Woman, the origin of rice cultivation and the reason for animal sacrifice. QUAND LES ETOILES RECONTRENT LA MER 77 min. 1996 VC Feature Raymond Rajaonarivelo A boy born during a lunar eclipse survives abandonment and inherits magical powers.
MALAWI: THE WOMEN 20 min. 1971 MP #2170 Churchill Films Women at work in a village, a city and the suburbs of a city, exemplify the contrasting cultures of a society in transition.
FINZAN 113 min. 1990 VC FEATURE Cheik Oumar Sissoko A drama about two Malian women, Nanyuma who refuses her brother-in-law when he asserts his traditional right to inherit her, and Fili, who is circumcised by the village women. LA GENESE(GENESIS) 103 min. 1999 VC Feature Cheick Oumar Sissoko An interpretation of the Biblical story of the estrangement between Jacob and Esau as seen through the eyes of Mali culture. GUIMBA THE TYRANT 93 min. 1995 VC Feature Cheick Oumar Sissoko The legendary story of the downfall of Guimba the tyrant provides an allegory of present-day African politics. KEITA!:L'HERITAGE DU GRIOT(KEITA!:THE HERITAGE OF THE GRIOT) 94 min. 1994 VC Feature Dani Kouyatâe Based on the Sundjata epic. When a djeliba, a master griot or bard, arrives mysteriously at the home of Mabo Kèita to teach him "the meaning of his name," the boy and griot are inevitably brought into conflict with his Westernized mother and schoolteacher. The griot reveals to Mabo the story of his distant ancestor, Sundjata Keita, the 13th century founder of the great Malian trading empire. KEY TO FREEDOM: WOMEN AND LITERACY 27 min. 1990 VC #2553 United Nations Features literacy projects in Mali, Thailand, Costa Rica and New York that are making a difference. LIFE ON EARTH(VIE SUR TERRE) 61 min. 1998 VC Feature Adderahmane [sic] Sissako Asked to imagine the last day of the 20th century in his own country, the filmmaker produced a "fictional documentary" of daily life in Sokolo, his father's village. Leisurely paced, vignettes of people's lives are interwoven with readings from the poet Aimâe Câesaire and the songs of Malian tenor Salif Keita. THE LION HUNTERS 68 min. 1965 MP $4180-81 and VC #5182 Jean Rouch An ethnographical study of the Fulani herdsmen, nomads who live on the boundaries of Niger and Mali. The study describes a lion hunt by the Goa people, the lion hunters, asked by the Fulani to kill lions which have attacked their herds. TA DONA 100 min. 1993? VC FEATURE Adama Drabe Ta Dona is the story of the quest for secret knowledge by a young Bambara man. TAAFE FANGA(SKIRT POWER) 95 min. 1997 VC Feature Adama Drabo In an eighteenth century Dogon village, the women terrorize the men into assuming traditional women's roles. YEELEN (BRIGHTNESS) 105 min. 1987 VC FEATURE Soulemane Cisse An adaptation of a Bambara oral epic which tells the story of a young warrior who is destined to destroy a corrupt older society.
MOROCCO1995 18 min. VC #4152 Steve Montgomery Production Captures the sights and sounds of Marrakech's historic square at the crossroad of Arab and Berber culture.
CHOPI MUSIC OF MOZAMBIQUE28 min. 1987 MP #3585 Hallis Media Prod. A portrait of the Chopi's musical tradition which points out the impact of the country's prolongedcivil war on the people's culture. THE CHOPI TIMBILA DANCE 40 min. 1980 VC #1883 Gei Zantzinger African music specialist Andrew Tracey identifies and explains basic elements of Chopi Xylophone orchestral music. A LUTA CONTINUA 32 min. 1971 VC #5176 Robert Van Lierop Documents the struggle waged by the Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) against the Portuguese authorities. NDANDO YAWUSIWANA (SONG OF SADNESS) 18 min. 1981 VC #1878 Gei Zantzinger The relationship between performance of song (ndando) and the larger social world of the Chopi Mozambique is indicated by a performance in which the ballad-like text of the composer alludes to a brutal family murder. THESE HANDS 45 min. 1992 VC #3216 Flora M'mbugu-Schelling Centres on the lives of women in Mozambique and Tanzania who work as stone crushers.
N!AI, THE STORY OF A !KUNG WOMAN58 min. 1980 MP #3470-3471 and VC #4109 John Marshall Focuses on the changes in the lives of the !Kung people of Namibia from 1951 through 1978 as seen through the eyes of one woman, N!ai.
FEMMES DU NIGER: ENTRE INTEGRISME ET DEMOCRATIE (WOMEN OF NIGER: BETWEEN FONDAMENTALISMAND DEMOCRACY) 24 min. 1993 VC #1994 Office de Radio Television du Niger Niger women discuss their struggles and achievements in gaining democratic rights, opportunities in literacy, education and employment, protection from abuse and adequate child care. HERSDMEN OF THE SUN 52 min. 1988 VC #5899 Werner Herzog Filming the Woodabe in the drought stricken Sahara, Herzog focuses on one tribal ritual. Once a year in what amounts to a beauty pageant, the young men dress up and parade in front of the women. Each woman must then chose and spend the next few nights with the man she finds most beautiful. JEAN ROUCH AND HIS CAMERA IN THE HEART OF AFRICA 74 min. 1978 VC #4063 Philo Bregstein/Dutch Television Reviews the methods of the anthropological filmmaker both from his own perspective and from that of his associates from Niger. THE LION HUNTERS 68 min. 1965 MP #4180- 81 and VC #5182 Jean Rouch An ethnographical study of the Fulani herdsmen, nomads who live on the boundaries of Niger and Mali. The study describes a lion hunt by the Goa people, the lion hunters, asked by the Fulani to kill lions which have attacked their herds. ROUCH IN REVERSE 51 min. 1995 VC #4389 Manthia Diawara French ethnologist/filmmaker, Jean Rouch discusses his work with Manthia Diawara.
BECOMING A WOMAN IN OKRIKA 27 min. 1990 VC #2272 Kamel Films Five young Nigerian women undergo a rite of passage that used to be a necessary prelude to marriage. DELTA FORCE 56 min. 1995 VC #5093 Essential Action Looks at the environmental and social effects of oil drilling by Shell International in the 1990's, on the Ogoni people of the Niger Delta. Also includes commentary and interviews with Ken Saro-Wiwa. DUMINEA: A FESTIVAL FOR THE WATER SPIRITS 20 min. 1966 MP #3190 U. of Ife Highlights of the annual ritual for Duminea, the water spirit, in the village of Soku, in the Eastern Niger Delta, in Nigeria. ECONOMIC ACTIVITY IN IBADAN 25 min. 1972 MP #3193 BBC/Open University Demonstrates that complex financial transactions are not limited to western countries through a look at the Ibadan marketplace. HE IS A MADMAN 30 min. 1963 MP #3289 U. of Ife Deals with the treatment of mental disorders among the Yoruba in the village of Aro, outside of Abeokuta, Western Region, Nigeria. HOME AWAY FROM HOME 11 min. 1994 VC #3667 Maureen Blackwood Miriam, a Nigerian woman in suburban Britain, dreams of her African childhood. JUJU MUSIC 51 min. 1991 VC #3855 A performance documentary featuring the urban popular tribal music of Nigeria. KEN SARO-WIWA 23 min. 1996 VC #4174 Millennium Movies The writer and political activist was hanged in 1995 for campaigning against the country's military dictatorship and foreign exploitation of the Ogoni people's natural resources. MONDAY'S GIRLS 49 min. 1994 VC #3606 Ngozi Onwurah A woman who has lived in a large city agrees to return to her native village for traditional pre-marital ceremonies. Her refusal to fully particpiate sparks a crisis underlining the conflict between traditional and modern African lifestyles. NIGERIAN ARTS 60 min. 1990 VC #1026 PBS Video Looks a Nigerian artists who have been inspired by their continent's cultural and historical legacy to create art unique to their region and experience. OBA KOSO, NIGERIAN MUSIC AND DANCE DRAMA 28 min. 1996 VC #5544 Creative Arts Television Excerpts from the famous Yoruba folklore drama about a wicked man who tries to overthrow the king. Commentary by Margaret Croyden ; performance by the National Theater of Nigeria. OLIVER JONES IN AFRICA 53 min. 1990 VC #2149 National Film Board of Canada Three Canadian jazz musicians visit their ancestral African villages and search for common cultural roots. SORO 25 min. 1969 MP #3640 H.K. Davis & Assoc. Describes Soro, a beating game practiced in Fulani, North West Nigeria, in which young men attempt to prove their manliness. SWAMPDWELLERS 52 min. 1973 VC #5634 Phoenix Film and Video Based on the play by Wole Soyinka. A young African returns to his village from the city and discovers that he has grown too sophisticated to accept his parents' beliefs.
FORSAKEN CRIES 35 min. 1997 VC #5455 Amnesty International Examines the 1994 genocide in Rwanda as a case study in the human rights challenges of the 21st century. GORILLAS IN THE MIST: THE STORY OF DIAN FOSSEY 129 min. 1988 VC Feature Michael Apted Home use - no classroom rights Based on the true story of young anthropologist Dian Fossey who travels to the African mountains to study the rare gorillas. THE RWANDA SERIES. VOLUME 1: SITTING ON A VOLANCO 55 min. 1996 VC #4362 National Film Board of Canada Criticizes the international community which allowed genocide to take place in Rwanda and then housed the killers in refugee camps and refused to acknowledge the human rights violations they had committed. RWANDA SERIES. VOLUME 2: HAND OF GOD, HAND OF THE DEVIL 51 min. 1996 VC #4603 National Film Board of Canada Explores Canada's role in the development of the genocidal ideology that took root in Rwanda, which was considered the "jewel" of Canadian aid in Africa. Focuses on the murder of two Canadian missionaries, Brother Franðcois Cardinal and Father Claude Simard, killed for protesting against corruption and human rights violations. THE RWANDA SERIES. VOLUME 3, CHRONCILE OF A GENOCIDE FORETOLD 164 min. 1996 VC #4492-93 National Film Board of Canada Pt.1. Focuses on the regions of Kibuye and the Bugesera. Survivors of the genocide return to the sites of massacres and tell harrowing stories of the lead-up to the killings. (63 min.)Pt. 2. Concentrates on the largest massacre in Kigali. Looks at how and why the international community abandoned the Tutsis of Rwanda to their killers. (44 min.)Pt. 3. Looks at what happened in Rwanda after the genocide. Members of the Hutu majority faced human rights abuses at the hands of a new government largely comprised of Tutsi extremists. (57 min). TRIUMPH OF EVIL 60 min. 1999 VC #5558 WGBH Examines the role of Britain, France, the U.S. and the U.N. as they ignored warnings and evidence of the impending massacre of 800,000 Tutsis, slaughtered by the Hutu majority in Rwanda.
CA TWISTE A POPONGUINE(ROCKING POPONGUINE) 90 min. 1993 VC Feature Moussa Sene Absa A comedy set during the last week before Christmas, 1964, in a remote beachside village in where the local teenagers are divided into rival cultural camps. MAKING DO 49 min. 1990 VC #0586 German Gutierrez Shows the resourcefulness of the rural poor in Nepal, Peru and Senegal. THE MONEY ORDER 92 min. 1968 VC Feature Ousmane Sembene A story about a man who receives a money order that threatens to destroy the traditional fabric of his life is used to point out the problems of modern Africa as a civilization struggling to recapture its own rich heritage after colonial corruption. REASSEMBLAGE: FROM THE FIRELIGHT TO THE SCREEN 40 min. 1982 VC #2874 Women Make Movies A documentation of the daily activities of Senegalese village women in 1981. SAARABA (UTOPIA) 81 min. 1988 VC FEATURE Amadou Saalum Seck/Azanie Films Metaphors are used to express African disillusionment with life in post-colonial Senegal. SELBE 30 min. 1982 MP #3813 Safi Faye Films Examines the economic and social roles of rural African women by focusing on the situation of one village woman. With English commentary. TABLEAU FERRAILLE 88 min. 1997 VC Feature Moussa Sene Absa 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, Kinâe. TAUW 27 min. 1971 MP #3667 Ousmane Sembene Tauw is a young man living with his Muslim family in Dakar who is at odds with his father and he cannot find work. THREE TALES FROM SENEGAL 82 min. 1994 VC #3900 Djibril Diop Mambety/Mansour Sora Wade Le franc is a parable about the plight of everyday Africans buffeted by the changing winds of the international monetary system. Picc mi is a story of two destitute boys who escape the predatory demands of adults to spend one day of freedom together. Fary l'anesse is a tale of a man led into folly by his pursuit of the perfect woman. TOUKI-BOUKI 85 min. 1993 VC FEATURE Djibril Diop Mambety/Cinegrit A young couple caught up in the glamour of Western consumerism use any means they can to exchange their shantytown life in Dakar for Paris. YOU AFRICA, YOUSSOU N'DOUR AND ETOILE 43 min 1994 VC #3903 Ndiouga Moctar Ba Documentary of the 1994 tour of nine West African nations by legendary Senegalese performing artist, Youssou N'Dour and his band and back-up dancers, Super Etoile.
FAMILY ACROSS THE SEA 56 min. 1991 VC #2722 South Carolina ETV Demonstrates how African American people kept their ties to their homeland despite centuries of oppression. THE LANGUAGE YOU CRY IN 53 min. 1999 VC #5041 Alvaro Toepke and Angel Serrano Tells a scholarly detective story reaching across hundreds of years from Sierra Leone to the Gullah people of present-day Georgia. Recounts the remarkable saga of how African Americans retained links with their African past. THE TOURIST TRADE 18 min. 1991 VC #2550 Coronet Films Examines the contributions of tourism to economic development in Gambia and Sierra Leone and its threat to traditional culture.
A SOLDIER'S PEACE 96 min. 1994 VC #4100-01 Screenlife Inc Retired Canadian Major General Lewis MacKenzie travels to Bosnia, Somalia, Croatia, Cyprus, Macedonia - to examine the U.N.'s military missions, and the problems faced by the forces in the field. He looks at the history and role of the U.N. and its policy of peacekeeping. THE SOVIETS AT THE CROSSROADS SERIES A.K.A. END OF AN EMPIRE 3. HORN OF AFRICA 54 min. 1990 VC #1739 Stornoway Prod. Focuses on the superpower role of the Soviet Union and the use of humanitarian aid for famine relief in Africa as a political weapon.
AFRICAN JIM 58 min. 1949 VC Feature Villon Films Made on the eve of apartheid's inception, this is the first full length feature film made in South Africa with an all native African cast. Features top African singers and music of the 1950's. APARTHEID 60 min. 1987 VC #1552 PBS Video Follows eight days of meetings in July 1987, between dissident white Africaners and black leaders from the outlawed African National Congress (ANC). CRY FREEDOM 157 min. 1987 VC Feature Richard Attenborough Home use - no classroom rights Story of Black acivist Stephen Biko (Denzel Washington) and a liberal white newspaper editor (Kevin Kline) who risks his own life to bring Biko's message to the world. FREEDOM 60 min. 1998 VC #5314 Madacy Entertainment Framed by quotations from the UN's Universal Declaration of Human rights, the film surveys the movements that have brought freedom to people in this century, which has seen the end of colonialism, communism, apartheid in South Africa, discrimination in the United States, and has brought about the women's movement and the associations of indigenous peoples who seek to gain civil rights and to protect their cultures. GENERATIONS OF RESISTANCE 54 min. 1979 MP #3259-3260 and VC #2872 Peter Davis Reviews the causes and the development of black nationalism in the Union of South Africa. GIRS APART 40 min. 1987 MP #4575 New Internationalist Shows the very separate lives of two 16 year old South African girls, one black, living in Soweto, the other white, living in suburban Johannesburg. IN A TIME OF VIOLENCE 151 min. 1993 VC FEATURE Brian Tilley A story concerning changing values, violent cultural and political clashes and conflict among black families in Johannesburg, South Africa. IN DARKEST HOLLYWOOD: CINEMA AND APARTHEID 2 X 56 min. 1993 VC #3597-98 Peter Davis and Daniel Riesenfeld Films generally supported the ethos of racial domination, it was only after Africans insisted on being heard that they began to be portrayed on-screen as more than mere adjunts of whites. THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SARA BAARTMAN: THE HOTTENTOT VENUS 53 min. 1998 VC #5324 First Run Icarus A Khoi Khoi woman was taken from South Africa in 1810 and exhibited as a freak across Britain. A court battle waged by abolitionists to free her from her exhibitors failed. In 1814, a year before her death, she was taken to France and became the object of scientific research that formed the bedrock of European ideas about black female sexuality. MAIDS AND MADAMS 53 min. 1985 VC #0105 Mira Hamermesh Examines the issues of apartheid from the perspective of black women, who work as servants for white South African women. MAPANTSULA (HUSTLER) 102 min. 1988 VC FEATURE Thomas Mogotlane/Max Montocchio Prod. Follows the transformation of a petty crook and rebellious underworld figure from an irresponsible individual to an anti-apartheid activist. MASTER HAROLD AND THE BOYS 90 min. 1984 VC Feature Michael Lindsay-Hogg Home use - no classroom rights Presents the relationship between a landowner and two of his black workers. Based on the play by Athol Fugard. REMEMBER MANDELA 31 min. 1988 VC #2110 Peter Davis Interviews family and colleagues about Nelson Mandela, jailed in South Africa because of his involvement with the African National Congress. SANGOMA 55 min. 1996 VC #4659 Villon Films Traditional healers have always been regarded with suspicion by practitioners of Western medicine. New efforts to integrate traditional healers into primary health care, nutritional education, and AIDS work holds some promise for a public health system under siege. SONGOLOLO: VOICES OF CHANGE 54 min. 1990 VC #1737 MSK Product. Writer Geina Mhlophe and poet Mzwakhe Mbuli share the mood of black South Africans trying to overcome poverty and oppression. SPEAR OF THE NATION: THE STORY OF THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 52 min. 1986 VC #2216 Thames TV The African National Congress President and Military Chiefs discuss the organization's history and its anti-apartheid political and military strategies in South Africa. THE TRIBAL MIND 52 min. 1994 VC #3507 National Film Board of Canada South Africa may provide a model for the world where the tribal politics of narrow self-interest continues to be destructive. Against a background of violence, some South Africans are rising above old tribal reflexes as they struggle towards democracy. A WALK IN THE NIGHT 79 min. 1998 VC Feature Mickey Madoda Dube Recounts a single terrible night 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. WHERE TRUTH LIES 31 min. 1999 VC #5910 Ubuntu Film & TV Productions Looks at one of the cases to come before the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Twenty-two year old student leader Siphiwo Mtimkulu and his friend Topsy Madaka, were shot and burned in 1982 by the Security Police under the apartheid government. WOZA ALBERT! 55 min. 1982 VC #1833 BBC Two black South African music hall performers recreate scenes from their political satire, Woza Albert. YOU HAVE STRUCK A ROCK 28 min. 1981 VC #2876 Deborah May/United Nations Describes the political oppression of South-African black women. ZANDILE: IN THE LIGHT OF UBUNTU 88 min. 1997 VC #4737 National Film Board of Canada Zandile is a South African woman whose reliance on the ancestral belief of Ubuntu enables her to deal with the aftermath of apartheid.
BEYOND BORDERS: ARAB FEMINISTS TALK ABOUT THEIR LIVES...EAST AND WEST 49 min. 1999 VC #6364 National Film Board of Canada Follows a delegation of Arab women activists, from Sudan, Algeria, Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan and the Palestinian territory, as they tour the United States, to sensitize North Americans to Arab feminism and the effects of American foreign policy. THE NUER 75 min. 1971 MP #4233-34 and VC #0866 Hary Harris & Robert Gardner Presents major events in the lives of the Nuer, Nilotic people in Sudan and on the Ethiopian border. THE POLITICS OF FOOD, PART I 52 min. 1987 VC #1639 Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Describes the extent of hunger and poverty in the world. Sudan, once considered the bread-basket of the Arab world, is on the brink of famine. THE SOVIETS AT THE CROSSROADS SERIES A.K.A. END OF AN EMPIRE 3. THE HORN OF AFRICA 54 min. 1990 VC #1739 Stornoway Prod. Focuses on the superpower role of the Soviet Union and the use of humanitarian aid for famine relief in Africa as a political weapon. WAITING 33 min. 1996 VC #4364 National Film Board of Canada For the last forty years an intermittent state of civil war has divided the country of Sudan in two. The population of Alek needs food but to prevent rioting distribution is delayed until the arrival of reinforcements. During this week of waiting we witness the face of hunger.
MASAI WOMEN 52 min. 1974 VC #2792 Granada TV Focuses on the preparation of young Masai girls for marriage and life in their society. TANZANIA, THORN TREE COUNTRY 60 min. 1997 VC #5115 National Geographic A thorn tree village is witness to the daily struggle for survival waged by plants, animals and insects for food, shelter, and protection from predators. TASTE FOR TRADE: COFFEE 22 min. 1991 VC #2741 Image Works Shows how underpaid coffee farmers in Tanzania are turning to Alternative Trading Organizations for assistance. THESE HANDS 45 min. 1992 VC #3216 Flora M'mbugu-Schelling Centres on the lives of women in Tanzania and Mozambique who work as stone crushers.
LUMUMBA, DEATH OF A PROPHET 72 min. 1992 VC #2942 Raoul Peck/Velvet Film Recounts Patrice Lumuba's 200 day rule and why his democratic movement succumbed to the military. MOBUTU, KING OF ZAIRE, PART 1: QUEST FOR POWER 51 min. 1999 VC #0159 Thierry Michel Documents Mobutu's journey from cook's son, to military journalist, to Secretary of State, and then President. Shows Mobutu meeting Patrice Lumumba during negotiations for the Congo's independence in 1960. Includes footage of Mobutu's coup in 1965, of Lumumba in captivity with Mobutu looking on, and of the ensuing four-year civil war. MOBUTU, KING OF ZAIRE, PART 2: THE UPPER HAND 51 min. 1999 VC #0160 Thierry Michel By 1970 Mobutu was the undisputed ruler of Zaire, controlling its riches, property and people, and brutally repressing any resistance. This period brought an economic crisis, and saw the government confiscating businesses and properties, which Mobutu took as his own, or handed out to his cronies. MOBUTU, KING OF ZAIRE, PART 3: THE END OF A REIGN 58 min. 1999 VC #0161 Thierry Michel Covers the years 1988 to 1997. Includes footage of Mobutu partying on the Mediterranean Coast with French and Belgian officials, prominent Americans and other dignitaries. Documents the emergence of an opposition movement in Kinshasha led by Etienne Tshisekedi, the development of the National Conference from 1990 to 1992, and the rebellion led by Kabila in 1996. In May, 1997 Kabila, Mobutu and South African President Nelson Mandela met in Kinshasha, within weeks Kabila took the city, Mobutu fled and died in exile in September of that year. PIECES D'IDENTITIES 94 min. 1998 VC Feature Mweze Ngangura A Congolese king searches for his daughter in Brussels where for a time he loses his royal identity, but finds a friend, a local cabdriver with a secret identity. With his help Mani Kongo is reunited with his daughter and his regalia and returns to Africa with a circle of friends. TANGO YA BA WENDO 52 min. 1993 VC #3614 Mambu Zinga Kwami and Mirko Popowitch A portrait of one of Africa's most influential musicians. LA VIE EST BELLE (LIFE IS ROSY) 85 min. 1987 VC FEATURE Lamy Films Tells the "rags to riches" story of a poor rural musician who realizes that he can succeed only by breaking into the radio and television world of Kinshasha, Zaire's capital city.
MWE BANA BANDI 30 min. 1988 VC #0532 Villon Films Songs and dances are shown to be an integral part of work and play for the children of Wapamesa, Zambia.
AFTER THE HUNGER AND DROUGHT 58 min. 1988 VC #3615 Olley Marima Discusses the role of writers in preserving the past and shaping the future of Zimbabwe. Includes interviews with some of Zimbabwe's foremost authors. EVERYONE'S CHILD 90 min. 1996 VC Feature Tsitsi Dangarembga In a rural village, family and neighbors turn their heads when Tamari and Itai's parents die. The climate in the city is just as hostile. 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. FLAME 85 min. 1996 VC Feature Ingrid Sinclair Depicts the role of women fighters in the Zimbabwean liberation struggle who have been left behind in the post-revolutionary period. NERIA 103 min. 1992 VC FEATURE After her dead husband's brother takes her children and her possessions, Neria learns that law and tradition can both be on her side if she fights intelligently for her rights. POWER TO THE PEOPLE 52 min. 1992 VC #3394 Filmakers Library Focuses on energy policies in the developing world, especially India and Zimbabwe. SIDE BY SIDE: WOMEN AGAINST AIDS IN ZIMBABWE 47 min. 1993 VC #3960 Villon Films Follows a social worker and a theater director/magazine editor as each uses her skills to overcome the effects of AIDS.
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