New York Premiere. Q&A with filmmaker Kenneth Gyang at both screenings.

The fates of a group of strangers become intertwined over the course of 24 hours in a diverse Nigerian city, where a blackmail plot hatched by some opportunistic slackers inadvertently leads to their own downfall.

New York Premiere. Q&A with filmmaker Biyi Bandele and cast members. Introduction at 9:45pm screening.

Based on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s best-selling novel, Half of a Yellow Sun is set during the Nigerian-Biafran war in the 1960s and follows two middle-class Nigerian twins as their lives are torn apart by the conflict.

Based on historical accounts of Queen Sarraounia, who led the Azans into battle against the French colonialists at the turn of the century, Med Hondo’s sweeping epic rivals any that American cinema has produced.

Director Marguerite Abouet and actress Aïssa Maïga in person on May 11.

A popular comic-book series tracking the adventures of a young female aspiring doctor in a 1970s West African working-class suburb is brought to cinematic life through vivid drawings and a spectacular soundtrack.

U.S. Premiere. Q&A with filmmaker Deborah Perkin at both screenings.

A single mother fights to legalize her forced marriage and register her “illegitimate” daughter in this galvanizing documentary that offers an unprecedented look at the Moroccan justice system. Screening with Beleh (Eka Christa Assam, 30m).

New York Premiere

A young dancer with a bum leg sees his dreams dashed when his bad decisions catch up with him in this elegant character study from Cannes and Venice award-winning director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun. Screening with Columbite Tantalite (Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12m).

U.S. Premiere. Q&A with filmmaker Nick Reding on May 8.

The 2008 Kenyan political crisis is echoed in this story of a small community where what starts out as good-natured banter between friends takes a more serious turn when rumors arise and a sudden mistrust takes hold.

With unprecedented access to Zimbabwe’s longtime leader, reviled by many in the West, Agyemang’s film reveals a complicated man guiding a country still dealing with postcolonial fallout.

Q&A with filmmakers at both screenings.

A short film program that includes fiction and nonfiction portrayals of the African experience, including work by Baudouin Mouanda, Ekwa Msangi-Omari, Iquo B. Essien, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Akosua Adoma Owusu, and Frances Bodomo.

New York Premiere. Q&A with filmmaker Victor Viyouh on May 13.

A mother of three runs away from home when her abusive husband refuses to let her visit her seriously ill father, setting off a whirlwind of suspense and adventure that traverses the Cameroon landscape.

New York Premiere

This tribute to film noir explores how a man “of good report” can get away with anything, in this case a torrid affair with a 16-year-student, in an impoverished black community ignored by South African society.

U.S. Premiere

This hard-hitting political thriller set against the 2011 protests at Tahrir Square takes us on a journey into the lives of an activist, a journalist, and a state security officer, laying bare the police state of Hosni Mubarak’s Egypt. Screening with Wooden Hands (Kaouther Ben Hania, 23m).