Africa

Guinea-Bissau, a small West African country with the closest coastline to Latin America, has become the continent's gateway to drug trafficking par excellence. "Bissau Way" follows the trail of the cocaine criminal network from Sinaloa to the paradisiacal islands of Bijagós. A quest to understand how the large networks of the drug business have settled along this passage and whose merchandise will end up in...

With only a 5th grade education, Jabulile Ndaba, a tall black woman with a contagious sense of humor, never thought of herself as a manager. Now she is a leader-in-training at a women’s project near Johannesburg. The project, Kopanang, enables women to earn money through embroidery -- and enables Jabulile to learn management skills. Jabulile is the sole provider for her large family. Her husband drinks away his earnings at the local bar. When Jabulile discovers that their teenage son has...

A unique look inside the South African prison Drakenstein Correctional Center and the impressive work of Dutch boxing coach Sharita van der Hulst in the rehabilitation program for prisoners that are serving heavy...

Bolingo. The Forest of Love tells the story of the journey madeby several women from the heart of Africa to North Morocco looking for the “european...

“It was visionary, the awakening of a new era”, says Amha Eshete, the Ethiopian musical producer in the days of Swingin’Addis, the golden age. Recordings made between the 50s and the 80s, the Ethiopian music publications that crossed borders; while the contemporary musical scene of Addis Ababa remains practically unknown to the world. Music in Addis Ababa expresses everyday life and the processes of transformation in the city. This documentary explores this musical vitality as it observes...

Somewhere in Africa, a pregnant woman and her son see something in the distance that appears to be a...

In 1994, in the East African nation of Rwanda, one million ethnic Tutsi people were slaughtered, in a genocide committed by their Hutu countrymen. But the scars left by these murderous militiamen go well beyond the numbers of the dead: they live on, in the lives of the women they held captive, raped - and left...