Upanga Kingdom

At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed missionary to go down river and face-off a German warship.

Runtime

1h 45m

Director

John Huston

Cast

Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley

Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.

Runtime

1h 52m

Director

John Guillermin

Cast

Richard Roundtree, Frank Finlay, Vonetta McGee

Thibaut, 40, raises his 7-year-old son, Gabriel, whom he adopted in Africa, alone. Faced with the crisis his son is going through, he decides to return with him to Senegal in search of the biological mother, Yawa, whom he once knew.

Runtime

1h 29m

Director

Pierre Linhart

Cast

Jean Le Peltier, Ladi Emeruwa, Tyron Bayineni

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film is based on her 1937 autobiographical novel.

Runtime

2h 41m

Director

Sydney Pollack

Cast

Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Klaus Maria Brandauer

On the one hand, there’s the desert eating away at the land. The endless dry season, the lack of water. On the other there’s the threat of war. The village well has run dry. The livestock is dying. Trusting their instinct, most of the villagers leave and head south. Rahne, the only literate one, decides to head east with his three chil...

Runtime

1h 36m

Director

Marion Hänsel

Cast

Issaka Sawadogo, Carole Karemera, Asma Nouman Aden