Frances-Anne Solomon’s film tells the story of Ulric Cross, a West Indian lawyer who joined the Pan-African independence movements sweeping the world in the 1960s. HERO explores not only the life but also the dynamic and transformative times that Ulric was born into.

At the outbreak of the Second Congo War, the stoic Sergeant Xavier and the eager young recruit Private Faustin are accidentally left behind in the jungle. With only each other to rely on, the Rwandan soldiers embark on an odyssey through one of the most beautiful, yet treacherous forests on earth, faced with the depths of their own war-torn souls. Preceded by The Letter Carrier.

A young factory manager finds himself faced with an emotional and ethical awakening when he begins to see how his company mistreats its workers in the great Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cissé’s political drama.

When the slave boats carrying African people docked in America, Brazil, Cuba, and the Caribbean, hundreds of cultures, traditions, and religions landed with them. Today, only one remains prominent in the new world: the culture of the Yorubas.

Black Goddess is a classic Nigerian-Brazilian film from director Ola Balogun that journeys into the past and present of Africa.

An immigrant from Cameroon journeys first to Lebanon and then to Belgium, where she finds employment at a beauty salon, a place where undocumented immigrants can escape the daily difficulties and harsh realities of their lives. Preceded by Little Girl.

In 1964, following the death of her mother, 14-year-old Nana Banyina Horne becomes the mother figure to eight younger siblings. Years later, after living and teaching in America, Nana is chosen to be Queen Mother back in Ghana. This is an existential tale of departures, exile, loss, trauma, and the burdens of responsibility and sacrifice.

Brahim Nadhour is a Tunisian living in France who returns to his home country to bury his son, Marouane, who was killed in a motorcycle accident. While there, Brahim finds out that Marouane was active in a radical Islamist group.

Oga Bolaji centers on the simple, happy-go-lucky life of a retired, 40-year-old musician (Gold Ikponmosa) whose life changes forever when he crosses paths with a 7-year-old girl.

A family man and yoga instructor is ambushed by three masked strangers accusing him of sleeping with their wives. He pleads his innocence, though what he does reveal will change all of their lives forever. But will it be enough to save his?

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.

El Hadji, an Islamic faithful, returns from his holy pilgrimage to Mecca, and falls in love with his daughter’s friend Santou, who is already engaged to be married, in this classic film from Niger. Plus, a behind-the-scenes documentary about one of the greatest figures in all of African cinema. Preceded by Mambéty

It’s New Year’s Eve in the iconic township of Atteridgeville. Two boys try to pull off a huge deal, dodge a kingpin gangster and his violent gang members, get the girl, and, finally, save their own lives.

Featuring Showtime by Shawn Antoine II, Suicide by Sunlightby Nikyatu, No Traveler Returns by Ellie Foumbi, Sign Up by Abeer Yehia, Wrong Con by Charles Obi Emere, and Hello, Rain by C.J. “Fiery” Obasi

Born in Porto-Novo, Benin, and raised in Senegal, Paulin Soumanou Vieyra (1925-1987) was a filmmaker and a historian, and one of the most important figures in all of African cinema.

This master class with renowned Cameroonian documentarian Jean-Marie Teno will focus on the issue of entertainment and education within the context of African cinema and feature a discussion about how filmmakers and stakeholders can accompany and trigger change through the transformative power of cinema. How can African cinema reconnect to African reality today in the transformative spirit that inspired the pioneering generation of African filmmakers in the 1960s and 1970s?

For four decades, filmmaker Mohamed two photographic essays, featuring selections of photographs from their collection, explore issues of cultural identity within an international vocabulary of contemporary media art practice, chronicling the intersection of Africa and her diaspora, charting personal memory across landscapes of history and heritage.