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Abouna (2002)
(Chad)
Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Starring: Hamza Moctar Aguid, Ahidjo Mahamat Moussa
After two young Chadian boys discover their father has abandoned them, they embark on a desperate quest to bring him home.
[DVD]

      
Bamako (2006)
Director: Abderrahmane Sissako
Starring: Aïssa Maïa, Tiécoura Traoré
The marriage of a bar singer and her husband is breaking up against a backdrop of a trial of the IMF and World Bank.
[DVD]

      
Cape of Good Hope (2005)
(South Africa)
Director: Mark Bamford
Starring: Debbie Brown, Eriq Ebouaney
This romantic comedy connects stories that revolve around a Cape Town animal rescue shelter.
[DVD]

      
Moolaadé (2004)
Director: Ousmane Sembene
Starring: Fatoumata Coulibaly, Maïmouna Hélène Diarra
When a woman shelters a group of girls from suffering female circumcision, she starts a conflict that tears her village apart.
[DVD]

      
Tsotsi (2005)
(South Africa)
Director: Gavin Hood
Starring: Presley Chweneyagae, Terry Pheto
A young man running with a Johannesburg gang is unaffected by his violent life, until he discovers an infant in a car he has stolen.
[DVD]

      
Yesterday (2004)
(South Africa)
Director: Darrell Roodt
Starring: Kenneth Khambula, Leleti Khumalo
Yesterday, who is HIV positive, has one goal: to live long enough to see her child go to school.
[DVD]



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