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- The Mirror Boy is a mystical journey through Africa, seen through the eyes of a 12 year old boy, Tijan. After a London street fight, in which a local boy is hurt, Tijan's mother decides to take him back to their roots, to Gambia. On their arrival in Banjul, Tijan encounters a strange apparition, a boy smiling at him in a mirror and vanishing. Seeing the same boy in a crowded street market the next day sets in motion a chain of events, with Tijan finding himself lost. While Tijan's panic-stricken mother struggles to find her son, Tijan is left alone in the company of the enigmatic Mirror Boy, seemingly only visible to him. After a bruising spiritual rite of passage, The Mirror Boy takes Tijan on a mystical journey, but not all is what it seems.
- Mike has invented a machine to get into movies currently running on his video tape recorder.
- A film crew follows the well-known banjo player Bela Fleck on his travels to Africa, where he learns about the instrument's origins.
- Crime, drugs, HIV/AIDS, poor education, inferiority complex, low expectation, poverty, corruption, poor health, and underdevelopment plagues people of African descent globally - Why? 500 years later from the onset of Slavery and subsequent Colonialism, Africans are still struggling for basic freedom-Why? Filmed in five continents, and over twenty countries, 500 Years Later engages the authentic retrospective voice, told from the African vantage-point of those whom history has sought to silence by examining the collective atrocities that uprooted Africans from their culture and homeland. 500 Years Later is a timeless compelling journey, infused with the spirit and music of liberation that chronicles the struggle of a people who have fought and continue to fight for the most essential human right - freedom.
- Kandia, an African women in her fifties who has lived in Sweden for 30 years, decides to move back to Gambia. Her son Ibbe, who dreams of a career in hip hop and is about to make a breakthrough, goes with her. Their encounter with their homeland, however, doesn't turn out the way they imagined. A warm, broad drama comedy about a universal theme: identity.
- Our documentary, It Takes a Village draws its name from the old African saying "it takes a village to raise a child". It is a wonderful story of people from different backgrounds, ignoring social and religious boundaries for the betterment of others. After the loss of their daughter Angela, British couple Hilary and Keith Walker, split their life in two so they could create a nursery to help educate Gambian children out of poverty. Between 2001 and 2013, living six months in the UK and the rest in the Gambia, Keith and Hilary created a unique charity project called Wonder Years Centre of Excellence (WYCE). That project is now coming of age, as in 2020, WYCE officially becomes a self-sustaining organisation. Starting from a single shared dream, Hilary and Keith Walker used every avenue to feed the growth of their education project - including selling their home in the UK. Robbed of their initial investment by a (failed project) in Tanji, the couple started again in the village of Madina Salam (The village of peace). For the next 13 years, the couple accompanied by their Gambian ally E.K. Sarr, survived opposition on two continents. In the Gambia, opposition from tribal leaders, death threats and a run in with President Jammeh's Secret Service (NIA) and in the UK constant power struggles over policies and money, with the charities trustees. Despite this their 'child' Wonder Years Centre of Excellence was built, and grew to be a school, clinic and village project which is known throughout the region. But the years of fighting on two fronts, living apart and the death of E.K. Sarr, led unsurprisingly to the couple's reluctant retirement in 2013. Keith's heart-attack and Hilary's nervous exhaustion meant they were unable to travel long distance, and so the couple knew they would never see their 'child' grow up, or visit their friends, again. However, a chance meeting in the Autumn of 2018 re-ignited their imagination and encouraged Hilary and Keith (now in their 70's) to risk traveling to Madina Salam to seek some emotional closure. That wish became the impulse for the making of the film. Despite the efforts of the charity to prevent their return, their welcome back in Madina Salam was something extraordinary to behold.
- When Lena and Ulli start the engine of their old Land Rover, Lady Terés, they have a plan: to drive from Hamburg to South Africa in six months. What they don't know yet is that they won't ever get there. Two totally different characters, jammed together in two square meters of space for almost two years, they experience what it really means to travel: leaving your comfort zone for good. Starting in Morocco, they quickly dive into the life of locals they meet on the road: Jamal, a Moroccan Berber who lives with his dromedaries in the Sahara, Ziza, a Mauritanian musician who fights against suppression from the government, Mame Sy, a mother who set up a private school for the poorest of the poor in Mauritania - and many more. Their journey leads them through the vibrant green canyons of Guinea, the scorching heat of Mali, and the amazing surf of Sierra Leone and Liberia. Everywhere they are, the two Germans make contact with the locals and demonstrate that real travelling is about more than plain sightseeing. But their long journey doesn't spare them the dark side of travelling: they are also confronted by corruption, sickness and even death. Setting out to discover a continent, their trip leads them down a very different road. One they did not expect: the journey to their true inner selves.
- A timely examination of human values and the health issues that affect us all, !Salud! looks at the curious case of Cuba, a cash-strapped country with what the BBC calls 'one of the world's best health systems.' From the shores of Africa to the Americas, !Salud! hits the road with some of the 28,000 Cuban health professionals serving in 68 countries, and explores the hearts and minds of international medical students in Cuba -- now numbering 30,000, including nearly 100 from the USA. Their stories plus testimony from experts around the world bring home the competing agendas that mark the battle for global health-and the complex realities confronting the movement to make health care everyone's birth right.
- Eve's apple is a documentary film reporting the barbarity of Female Genital Mutilation, showing how international agencies and private and public entities fight and look for alternative measures to end this reprehensible practice.
- ShortIn 1945, a young Gambian woman treks across her country to translate a letter written in English, one that tells the fate of her fiancé fighting for the British thousands of miles away.
- 'SARATA' is about love and betrayal faced by young women as they seek to better their lives. She is an orphan, beautiful, well brought-up in the village. She's in love with Abdou and wants to marry him but will not have sex before marriage
- Former Big Brother 3 housemate Spencer Smith presents his own fishing show from locations as diverse as Canada, Poland, Norway and The Gambia.
- Our story our voice engages the diverse voices of the dis-empowered in a multi-cultural world that has no multi-culture voice. Beyond the mainstream media and politics of newspapers Our Story Our Voice offers a rare unbridled look into the voices of those who more often than not get marginalized. From nuclear weapons proliferation to the hypocrisy of western foreign policy, failure of plurality and democracy to the crisis in Darfur.
- A visual documentary that shows, in fragmented observations, the gaze of a filmmaker who travels the world. A reflection on tourism, loneliness, inequality and our relationship with animals and our planet.
- A look at The Gambia in Africa, a former British colony. Follow Paul Wheeldon as he travels the length of the River Gambia exploring the history, wildlife, locals and charity workers out there.
- A documentary that captures the daily struggles of 15 youngsters moving within the informal economy of the Gambian tourism industry of sun, safari and sex. With the lure of a better future just around the corner, do they try their luck abroad or find their peace at home?
- Documentary about female genital mutilation in Africa. Includes interviews with victims, activists against female circumcision, and circumcisers.
- The ten-piece afro-helvetic band "King Kora" starts a tour through Gambia, the home country of its kora player and singer Lamin Jobarteh. The band travels for nine days on a boat on the river "Gambia", stopping by at eight villages and cities along the shore to perform, and finally giving three large concerts at the coast. But what they find in this country does not always meet their expectations...
- Human rights education in Senegal triggers a re-examination of Koranic law and traditions like forced early marriage and female circumcision, causing a historic movement towards positive social change.
- Documentary interviewing two women in the Czech Republic who were involved in the World Women Project. Finding out why they took part and what the World Women Project meant to them personally.
- A documentary detailing the state visit (aka "Royal Tour") paid by Great Britain's Queen Elizabeth II to the recently independent West African countries of Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and The Gambia in1961. Narrated by Sir Anthony Quayle.
- They were born in the West Indies but for almost fifty years their home has been Nottingham, England. Now Cecil and Janette Watley want to confront their slave heritage and rediscover their African roots.
- The film tells the story of Samba, a young man who loves the beautiful Fatu and is forced to confront a formidable rival. A tribal war is unleashed, but soon the young hero defeats his enemy, weds his lady-love and sure enough becomes head of his tribe.
- JuJu is a short form documentary in which we follow a young man back to his roots; to explore the world of JuJu, in a country where it's practice in common place.
- Lalo, short for Latin Lover, the ultimate Latin lover, is an American guy from Los Angeles with this Latino accent. Lalo is a very special guy. He's got kinda a bipolar personality, and it'll take him less than a second to go from extremely nice to crazily mad for no reason. Lalo is a wealthy guy. He has anger problems. For this reason his doctor recommends him to keep busy and do something for others, help people somehow. That's why he decides to start a channel on Youtube to teach people how to be the perfect Latin lover. He's totally obsessed with a couple of things: women, the hate he feels towards his doctor and with his 2 sacred idols, Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek. His opinions are extreme but he will really try to be more open minded about what's different. He'll take you from teaching you how to be the best friend ever to how to be a British Prince who parties too much with booze and girls and not get caught. From Gambia (Africa) to Paris, from Madrid to Los Angeles. You just can't miss Lalo.
- An exciting journey into the Canarias Lamin School, located in a town of the smallest country in mainland Africa.
- Following a charity called Disability Africa, this documentary follows the lives of disabled children in The Gambia and how they are viewed within society.
- Graham Hoskins and Danny John-Jules undertake another motorcycle travel adventure in just two weeks, this time exploring the iconic Dakar rally route through west Africa.
- This is a film about friends lost and friends found. A single mothers mission to teach her mixed-race sons about their West African roots. A story 30 years in the making, spanning 3 generations, 4,000 miles from home, and brought back to life by a very special song.
- An engaging journey through Gambia, Finland, and Italy, following the story of Essa, a former UN soldier and refugee, and his struggle to achieve well-being for himself and his African village.
- Hightech is a TV Show which focuses on technology through creation and edutainment. The show seeks to raise digital literacy, feature underdog talents and help people solve their everyday tech problems.
- Docu-fiction drama follow up to Paris 60, following the love story of a man and a woman, as well as the stories in between.
- Josh and team search The Gambia for two creatures at once: The Ninki Nanka, a large dragon-like lizard, and the Kikiyaon, a large owl-like creature.
- Journey of the Weiße Lady: Gambia. Bernd and Manuela: Sokuta Project. Andreas and David: Kachikally Crocodile. Marina and Conny: Mama Africa Art Center. Lena moves to the restaurant. Africa Gala Dinner. Robert and Julian: wrestling.
- Zita is looking for her biological father from Gambia.
- 1968–7.6 (15)TV EpisodeA 12-story beachfront condominium collapses; resistance fighters risk their lives to save Jewish artifacts during and after the Holocaust; Sona Jobarteh, the first female virtuoso player of a centuries-old West African instrument called the kora.
- A young economic migrant (Momodou) returns to the home country that he was illegally smuggled out of 2 years ago, following his deportation from the U.K. Battling with feelings of shame and acceptance, Momodou must come to terms with the stark reality of the sacrifice his family made in risking everything they had to fund his journey and the consequences of his return home.