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- This story deals with aspects of the European Colonization of the African continent in a very simple but unique way. The story also suggests that, both the Black Man and the White Man worship the same Almighty God but through different mediums.
- For ten years two best friends Kristin and Val shared a small apartment in Hamburg, Germany. In these ten years they grew up, became independent women and inseparable friends. Now their individual paths lead them into different directions and soon they will be living on different continents. Before this happens, they decide to go on a big adventure together to focus on their friendship. A four week long hike through the Himalayan Mountains in Nepal, allows them to share thoughts and challenge their deep connection. Together Free is a heartfelt ode to friendship and the importance of friendship.
- After the murder and rape of his sister, the only surviving member of his family. Rev. Frank loses his faith and undergoes a personal transformation.
- A girl falls in love with a married man she gets pregnant and she gets dumped. She then decides to leave her young baby near a clinic. Sibiya adopts the child, later on Mr. Sibiya falls in love with the biological mother of the child without knowing. After Mr. Sibaya passes away, Connie decides to make the child a prostitute without knowing its the child she dumped years ago.
- Newly Married couple devised a baleful means to make each other conform to what is acceptable in a home as their differences truncated their expectation.
- A man dies and willed all his properties to his son but he can't inherit them unless he goes back to his father's hometown to fight and bring back the Staff of Okomfo Anokye. Okomfo Anokye is a legendary African priest who lived in Ancient times. What is the connection between the Man and OKOMFO ANOKYE and what is the connection between The Past and The Present?
- After celebrating Sasha's birthday with bottles of beers and whiskies, her three friends, Johnn, Tom, and Sam decide to take her to a nearby town for more celebrations but on their way, their car hits and kills a passerby on a lonesome road. They decide to hide the crime as Johnny, the governor's son argues that it will negatively influence his father's political career. However, on their way to bury the corpse, their car is stopped by a police officer and as the officer discovers the corpse, he is shot dead by Johnny but unfortunately during the clash, the officers shoots at Sam. To cover up this new crime three other people will die.
- Imagine that your parents are white but your skin colour is dark and they tell you that 's pure coincidence. This is what happened to a girl in East Berlin in the 1960s. Years before, a group of African men came to study in a village nearby. Here the East German woman Sigrid falls in love with Lucien from Togo and gets pregnant. But she is already married to Armin. The child is filmmaker Ines Johnson-Spain. Meeting her stepfather Armin and others from her childhood years, she tracks the astonishing strategies of denial her parents and the surroundings had developed. In an intimate portrayal but also critical exploration she brings together painful and confusing childhood memories with matter-of-fact accounts that testify a culture of rejection and tight-lipped denial. Yet, the movingly warm encounters with her Togolese family develop Becoming Black also into a reflection on themes such as identity, social norms and family ties, seen from a very personal perspective.
- A young, rich girl falls victim to the ramifications of a dysfunctional family. Her father sends her sick mother packing on her way to do national service.
- Chief Donald intends to spend the rest of his life in perfect celibacy. But his adventurous past eventually catches up with him, when he suddenly discovers he fathered many children with several women during the days of his youth.
- Literally translated; the word YENTI-GYAI means: 'WE CANNOT HEAR STOP." YENTI-GYAI: TALES FROM THE BLUE BUS is an anthology of short stories set in Ghana cataloguing the misadventures of seven ill-fated strangers from different walks of life travelling on an old blue bus that has fallen under the curse of a vengeful infant deity. The series was written and developed by the Freshcraft Collective - a team of fifteen student filmmakers from Germany, Ghana, and East Africa - under the guidance, facilitation, and collaboration of three institutions: Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin - DFFB (Germany), National Film and Television Institute - NAFTI (Ghana), and Maisha Film Lab (East Africa)
- Helen going through rough life, her mind stigmatized of crime which happened to her when she met a random (Caesar) on social media whom she is looking for revenge, Caesar sent her a friend request and they started chatting, their friendship went deeper and she trusted him and when they agreed to meet one day, Caesar raped her and 3 months later Helen discovered she is pregnant, while is suffering with the stigma of rape, she dropped out of school due to the unwanted pregnancy later she gave birth to a baby boy and she had no choice but to care of a child of the rapist, she is going through a lot of psychological torture and stigma.
- The first time we met was when we both looked at an apartment in Berlin. It was love at first sight, but back then both of us lived in steady relationships. It remained an affair. Ten years later, fortuity led us back together. On the spur of the moment, we got married. Lukas lives and works in Austria, I live and work in Berlin. Who is my husband? How and where do we want to live? I record moments from our relationship with the camera because I want to solve the mystery of love, that is suddenly confronted with the reality of life.
- SAMIRA, a street child with her siblings has experienced the hard times living without a home and in hunger. She believes going to school can bring her out of her situation but unfortunately the society around her gives no consolation to her and her siblings. As she struggles to help herself and her siblings, her vulnerability explains her fate as a child.
- Mr. Mojela finds himself unable to cope with the stress of raising his teenage daughter (Matshwenyego) after the death of his wife. To add salt to the wound, the daughter falls pregnant and the boy responsible for the pregnancy wants nothing to do with her. Mr. Mojela couldn't stand the shame and decided to chase the daughter out of the house. Matshwenyego went to stay at her frend's house where she was welcomed with both hands by the mother. Mojela sorted things with her daughter and she was back at the house. The problem started again when Matshwenyego couldn't stand her father's ways of changing women in the house. She was driven out of the house again when her father confronted her for insulting his girlfriend. Matshwenyego went to stay in the streets and she was nowhere to be found. The boyfriend (Thabo) then made it his business to go look for her and finds her at the spot where they used to meet. Mojela stopped changing women and wanted to stay with his daughter peacefully in the house.
- Uwem is a small town business man who has hit hard times as he has not made sales because he lives in a town where everyone is exercising, quitting smoking and generally trying to live healthier lifestyles. This isn't good for his business as sales are seriously reduced. His problems are compounded when his wife leaves him and he is left with their daughter Nse who is suspended from school for refusing to take off her superhero costume. Uwem has to also contend with the aggressive takeover of his new neighbor HD Yaw who owns KPAI Assassination Limited and covets his small business. Everything comes to a head when he meets Ogun Lesley who is dying and has a list of odd things he wants to do before he goes...and this becomes Uwem's most important coffin sale.
- Two sisters, Martha and Helene, stand in focus of Dennis Todorovic's second feature film «Schwester Weiß». As mother superior of a Franciscan convent, Martha leads a deeply religious life of strict rules and high morals, Helene is an atheist and was always the wild one in the family. But a car accident changes everything. Helene loses both her daughter Maja and her husband Theo, but also all memories of them and her past. Martha tries her best to take care of Helene, but Helenes amnesia seems to last.When Martha finds out that Helene's mother in law, Dolores, is planning for an atheistic forest funeral for Maja, it is just too much for her to bear. She puts all her efforts into stopping this "heathen" funeral from happening.
- A young hunter Ubadu lived in his 'Deadland', Kukro. Nothing he did in that land succeeded. One day, while he was hunting, he had an encounter with the gods which turned his life around. However, he broke the laws of the gods and he was going to die for his sin. He then pleaded that the gods spare his life and make his descendants pay for his sins. Many hundred years have gone by and from each of the generations that came after him, the gods picked one person to bear the mark of the curse.
- The story revolves around a Narcotics Investigative Unit (NIU) agent (Adjetey Anang) trained regularly by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) of the United States. On returning from one of such trainings, he is met with a case of a lady arrested for drug trafficking. With his past experience with drugs and how it once led his brother to an untimely death, he is motivated to hunt and bring to justice all persons involved in the importation/exportation and distribution of illegal drugs and to prevent the recurrence of what happened to his brother from happening to more people especially the youth.
- Saint Music is a documentary exploring Ethiopian music, its brief history and the challenges it faces. The film comprises of interviews of the country's music elite including Mr. Yilma Gebre Ab, Mr. Dawit Yifu, Betty G. and others as well as a brief overview of the prominent music school; Yared Music School named after Yared who is considered to be the father of Ethiopian music.
- "Waithira" explores a woman's intimate background and its intersections with forgotten Kenyan history, pop culture and the diaspora.
- A grade six boy Langcer Divine (Frubi Rollins) is caught in a web of abuse and neglect by his school teachers and peers because of his dullness.
- In an arbitrary country where men have more access to power is a woman called SILA APISEH. She sees the sufferings of her people and decides to run for presidential elections to challenge an autocratic regime which has been working against the plight of AFROKONITES. Though supported by the young AFRONITES as the bearer of change, her ascension to power is tested by the incumbent regime before she finally accesses power.
- Joe Evans, aka Paa Joe had been left with a huge responsibility by his late Boss and Mentor, Tom Williamson, who died in a terrible road traffic accident, five years ago, within two years of his wife's death. Peter was the only child of this ever so wealthy family, they had money on both sides, Tom although a very successful farmer and Estate Owner in his own rights, inherited a cattle ranch and Processing Factory from his father. Martha was left a hefty trust fund by her parents. She also inherited her father's Tea Plantation when he died. Her husband was able to turn it into a very successful venture. Joe was treated as an equal by Tom and his lovely wife Martha, they always referred to him as the brother Tom didn't have. They trusted him explicitly. Now that they are both dead, Joe was made Trustee of all that wealth, awaiting Peter's completion of university. This should not have been a problem for Pa Joe as he is affectionately called, loves Peter with a passion, and Peter was very happy with his father's decision, and loves Pa Joe, and only wanted to finish his degree in Agricultural Science and come home to join forces with his beloved Pa Joe. However Peter comes home with a wife, Angela, whom he married without anyone's knowledge nor signed a pre-nuptial agreement, and she is pregnant, thus PA Joe's head throbs and his left knee screams with pain, yet Peter's love for his wife blinds him to her faults. Angela, however finds out that Pa Joe, is only supposed to release Peter's fortune to him, when he Pa Joe is happy about all situations, as stated in Clause 23 of the will. This has not gone down very well Angela, who is very pregnant with twins and wants some form of security for her children before her husband finds out the twins are not his, thus determined to go to any length to get to Peters millions. She is prepared to kill and kidnap when necessary, but Pa Joe and Martha are prepared to protect Peter and his wealth at all cost. Meanwhile Scott, her former boyfriend and the real father of her twins, is not so generous. He hopes to make her pay, can he?
- Awudu Tijani has been directing traffic voluntarily in Ghana's capital, Accra, for two decades. Homeless, affected by substance abuse, and relying solely on the benevolence of motorists, it's his childhood longing of becoming a police officer that drives him back to the road every day. Will his dream ever come true?
- Black Sheep follows the story of Yolanda (Rabby bray). a beautiful woman with a history of sociopathic behaviour. She finds herself in a happy marriage with a husband (Adjetey Anang) and family who have no idea of her violent delusional past until her otherwise calm life is rocked by an unexpected discovery. She is triggered by betrayal and ends up revealing that dark side her family never imagined existed.
- Papa Wemba is dead. Possessed by the fear of the future, his dancer Bénédicte who worked for him for 15 years, embarks on the perilous mission of remixing his hit song ZERO.
- A love triangle between a musician, a president and a queen dancer, leading to the brutal death of the musician at the hands of Idi Amin's State Research Bureau henchmen.
- Rhuveneko returns to her family's village to claim her inheritance. Her father, the former chief. died during the liberation war. Confronting the new chief, her greedy and corrupt uncle, Rhuveneko learns of her father's true nature.
- Danso returns home from Agege with two friends of his where their expectations were not met. Back home, Danso and his friends engage in all forms of acts to survive. Danso however chances on vital information that changes his life and sets the viewers of the movie THE CURSED TREASURE (Made In Agege) on a roller-coaster.
- Sebastian going through rough times with his girlfriend Ellie who cheats on him with his friends Tom. Sebastian's dad is sick with stroke in Cologne Hospital and later his dad reveals to him. His mother is still alive and living in Africa, Sebastian cuts short his trip to Paris and goes to Africa to look for his mother without his dad permission after discovering his mother is alive. He falls in trouble by loving a woman of a tough village son of a chief which is prohibited to fall in love for a woman with having performed Imbalu 'circumcision' cultural practiced which is a passage from being a boy to become a man every man who has never done Imbalu still remains a boy who's never given privilege of marrying and decision making. And went against the cultural values when he refused to be circumcised.
- It is the story of father and son fighting their way through the wild of Eastafrica accompanied by the Massai- Nomads, following their ambitious and challenging dream to climb the top of the Kilimanjaro.
- Leaking Womb is a story of Yaya and Pete (siblings) who lost their child Hilda into a barren society that is in dire need of a child after being cursed by their father who termed their relationship as a taboo.
- Bih, a 17 year old girl from Kum, a village in the NW region of Cameroon loses her parents to the shameful hands of death. Her desire to continue school is shadowed with poverty and the wicked mind of her uncle BOBE NGONG who uses her as a tool to settle his debt. BOBE NGONG forces BIH into marriage with an old man BOBE TOHSAM who uses her as a sex tool, BIH fights her way out of this with the help of her cousin NGAM, but it is rather unfortunate as BIH's only strength (NGAM) is poisoned to death leaving her to fight her course alone. BIH is left with no choice but to take her life. She blames her death on her parents for laying her on a BED OF THORNS.
- Mabeste is about two orphans who live together in a house left to them by their parents who died in a road accident. The older orphan Flash D quits his employment in order to venture into music full time but his dreams of making it big are put in jeopardy when he involves himself with a dishonest music producer called Joy Mapenzi, who takes advantage of his naivete. His younger sister Mishi, a university student, and whom he is a guardian to has a rebellious streak and does not make life any easier for him.