Signals - Where Is Africa

Overview of films

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  Questions à la terre natale

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  Samba Félix N’diaye | 52' | Senegal | None

  After years spent abroad, Samba Félix N’diaye returns to his native city Dakar, which arouses in him deep questions at the political, economic and his
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  Ramata

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  Léandre-Alain Baker | 84' | France | None

  The life of Ramata, married for 30 years to the Minister of Justice, radically changes when she meets, apparently coincidentally, a mysterious hustler
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  La rançon d’une alliance

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  Sébastien Kamba | 71' | Congo-Brazzaville | None

  For the first time in African cinema, the taboo subject of slavery amongst Africans in the pre-colonial period is dealt with in this story of…
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  Rastus in Zululand

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  Arthur Hotaling | 8' | USA | None

  Rastus, the ultimate lazy black, is surreally whisked by boat to Africa and has to make a big decision or be dinner for hungry Zulus.
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  The Rat Trap

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  Kimela Bila | 13' | Tanzania | None
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  Retirement Day

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  James Gayo | 13' | Tanzania | None
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  Le retour d’un aventurier

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  Moustapha Alassane | 34' | France | None

  In this pop art African-style Western, a man returns home to his village with western cowboy duds and forms a gang with his old buddies.
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  The Rose of Rhodesia

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  Harold M. Shaw | 71' | South Africa | None

  This recently recovered film involves the theft of a diamond from a Rhodesian mining concern, though its real interest is inter-racial relations.
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  Rwanda: Take Two

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  Pia Sawhney | 50' | Rwanda | World premiere

  An intriguing portrait of two young, ambitious Rwandan film makers who are followed on their road to success. The tragic events from their past mean…
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  Safari Obscura

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  Anton Kotze’ (Khotso) | 65' | South Africa | World premiere

  A trance-inducing kaleidoscopic journey through myriad secret African landscapes of every kind, informed by an all-embracing animism.
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  Samba, der Held des Urwalds

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  Pola Bauer-Adamara, August Brückner | 65' | Germany | None

  Intending to capture a true-life picture of African tribal peoples, two Germans contrived to create ‘the first African film made by Africans themselve
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  Sarah and Omelga

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  Tan Chui Mui | 30' | Malaysia | World premiere

  Tan Chui Mui shot a short science-fiction film in South Africa (see No Woman Born). In that way she got to know the film makers…