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Videotape no.4108.
African American cinema I, The [videorecording ] : Oscar
Micheaux's Within our gates.
[Washington, D.C.] : Library of Congress, c1993.
The earliest surviving feature directed by an African-American,
Within our gates tells the story of a young African-American
woman who seeks a northern white patron for a southern school
for black children. The scenes of lynching and attempted
white-on-black rape may be a response to D.W. Griffith's The
birth of a nation.
Feature films.
Silent films.
African Americans -- Drama.
Videotape no.4112.
African American cinema II, The [videorecording] : The scar of
shame (1923) and Sissle and Blake (1926)
[Washington, D.C.] : Library of Congress, 1993.
Sissle and Blake : a short filmed in Lee De Forest's New York
studio with his sound-on-film process in 1923, four years
before Hollywood began to experiment with sound. Pianist Eubie
Blake and Noble Sissle perform their jazz composition
"Affectionate Dan" and a jazzed-up spiritual.
Scar of shame: In no film was the racial theme more apparent than
in this story about an ill-matched marriage between a black
concert painist and a poor, lower class black woman. Secretly
ashamed of her, the young man keeps his wife hidden from his
socially-prominent middle-class mother. Despite the melodrama,
it is a strong statement on the issues of class and the color
caste system which existed within the African-American
community. This was the first film of the Colored Players Film
Corp. of Philadelphia.
Motion pictures -- History.
Silent films -- History.
Sound motion pictures -- History.
African Americans -- Drama.
African American motion picture producers and directors.
African American musicians -- History.
Ragtime music -- History.
Jazz -- 1921-1930.
Videotape no.6215.
Africa dreaming [videorecording]
San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel [distributor], 1997.
Sophia's homecoming / directed by Richard Pakleppa ; produced by
Bridget Pickering -- Sabriya / written and directed by
Abderrahmane Sissako ; produced by Dora Bouchoucha Fourati -So be it / written, directed and produced by Joseph Gai
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Ramaka -- The gaze of the stars / directed by Jo{228}ao Ribeiro ;
produced by Pedro Pimenta.
Short films.
Love -- Africa -- Drama.
Africa -- Social conditions -- 1960- -- Drama.
Videotape no.6236.
Afrique, je te plumerai [videorecording] = Africa, I'm going to
fleece you / une coproduction Les Films du Raphia (France) et
Raphia Films Production (Cameroun) avec la collaboration de la
ZDF (Kleines Fernschspiel) ... ; ecrit, produit, realise et
raconte par Jean-Marie Teno.
San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, [1992]
Examines how Cameroon's French colonizers have been replaced by a
dictatorial indigenous regime which still plunders the land and
silences the authentic expression of its people. A case study
of the devastation of traditional African societies by imposed
colonial cultures.
Cameroon -- History.
Cameroon -- Colonial influence.
Cameroon -- Politics and government.
Cameroon -- Social conditions -- 1960Documentary films.
French language -- Films for English speakers.
Videotape no.7933.
Ainsi meurent les anges [videorecording] / M. sa Productions et
L'INA presentent un film ecrit et realis par Moussa Sene
Absa ; producteur delegue, Moussa Sene Absa.
San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, c2001.
"Mory [is] a troubled Senegalese poet living outside Paris with
his French wife and their children. We watch his marriage fall
apart under cross-cultural pressures, specifically his father's
demand that he take a second wife in Senegal. Homeless in
winter, separated from his children, his poems scattered over a
Paris street, Mory returns to Senegal, penniless and with
uncertain prospects. At the same time, black-and-white
sequences reveal the psychological origins of Mory's present
malaise."--website.
Poets -- Senegal -- Drama.
Senegalese -- France -- Paris -- Drama.
Fathers and sons -- Senegal -- Drama.
Senegal -- Social conditions -- Drama.
Interethnic marriage -- Drama.
Abused children -- Drama.
Feature films -- Senegal.
Motion pictures -- Senegal.
Feature films.
Videotape no.6751.
Allah Tantou, (a la grace de Dieu) [videorecording] = Allah
Tantou, God's will be done / Archibald Films.
San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1991.
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Through home movies, old newsreels, letters and fictional
reconstruction of imprisonment, this film examines the life of
the filmmaker's father, a diplomat under the Sekou Toure
regime, who later disappeared into the Guinean gulag. Film
reevaluates the turbulent decade of African independence and
discusses its relevance to the new political order on the
continent.
Guinea -- Politics and government -- Drama.
Prisoners -- Guinea -- Drama.
Videotape no.2265.
Angano ... Angano [videorecording] : = tales from Madagascar /
Marie-Clemence Blanc-Paes and Cesar Paes.
San Francisco, CA. : California Newsreel (distributor), 1989.
"Venerable but unmistakably contemporary storytellers recount for
the camera and their listeners the founding myths of Malagasy
culture, the creation of man and woman, the origin of rice
cultivation, the reason for animal sacrifice." -- Container.
Documentary television programs.
Foreign films.
Madagascar -- Social life and customs.
Videotape no.7413.
Bye bye Africa [videorecording] / un film de Mahamat Saleh Haroun
; [presentent] les productions de la lanterne.
San Francisco, Calif. : California Newsreel 1999.
In this reflexive docu-drama about the difficulties of making
films in Africa, an exiled film director returns to Chad after
the death of his mother. There he discovers, as a result of
wars, that motion picture theaters have been abandoned in favor
of makeshift video theaters often in private homes. Haroun
visits a producer who suggests that he make a film using a
video camera and concludes that the important thing is to
continue to produce films no matter what the circumstances.
Chad -- Description and travel.
Motion pictures -- Chad.
Motion picture industry -- Chad.
Video recordings -- Chad.
Haroun, Mahamet Saleh.
Videotape no.6268.
Ca twiste a Poponguine [videorecording] = Rocking Poponguine /
une coproduction Cameras Continentales, France 2, RTS ; un film
de Moussa Sene Absa.
San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1993.
A comedy set during the last week before Christmas, 1964, in a
remote beachside village, where the local teenagers are divided
into rival cultural camps.
Motion pictures -- Senegal.
Foreign films.
Feature films.
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Videotape no.4583.
Chocolat [videorecording] / un film de Clair Denis.
[New York] : Orion Home Video, [1990], c1988.
A young woman returns to Cameroon to trace her past. Soon the
sights, sounds and smells sweep her back to her childhood and
memories of the people who populated her youth.
Africa -- In motion pictures.
Feature films.
Motion pictures, French.
Videotape no.6733.
Clando [videorecording] = Clandestine / Les Films du Raphia ; un
film de Jean-Marie Teno.
San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, [1996]
Sobgui, a former computer programmer, drives a "clando" cab in
Douala, Cameroon's streets. He is clandestine, not just because
his cab is unlicensed, but because he is hiding from his past.
When a radical political group involves him a revenge slaying
of an informer, Sobgui knows that it is time to get out of
Douala. He gets his chance when he is asked to find a wealthy
villager's son in Germany. The film represents a dilemma facing
educated Africans: whether to work to change the autocratic
regimes at home or seek their fortunes abroad.
Feature films.
Foreign films.
Cameroon -- Politics and government -- Drama.
DVD 1409.
Coming to America [videorecording]
Hollywood, CA : Paramount, 1999, c1988.
Comedy about a wealthy, pampered African prince who comes to
America in search of a bride. Accompanied by his closest
companion, the prince quickly finds a new job, new friends and
lots of trouble.
Princes -- Africa -- Drama.
America -- Drama.
Africa -- Social life and customs -- Drama.
Comedy films.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
DVD 421.
Coup de torchon [videorecording] / Janus Films ; Studio Canal ;
Aldolphe Viezzi et Henri Lassa presentent un film de Bertrand
Tavernier ; ecrit par Jean Aurenche et Bernard Tavernier ; une
coproduction Les films de la tour, Film A2, Little Bear ;
producteur delegue Adolphe Viezzi ; mise en scene Bernard
Tavernier.
Dual layer ed.
[Irvington, NY?] : The Criterion Collection, c2001.
After Lucien Cordier, the only police officer in a small African
village is ridiculed by the local pimp, cheated on by his wife,
and suffers his mistresses being beaten, he begins to get rid
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of the evil ones in his life.
Thompson, Jim, 1906-1977 -- Film and video adaptations.
France -- Colonies -- Africa -- Drama.
Colonial administrators -- Africa -- Drama.
Murder -- Drama.
Adultery -- Drama.
Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
Motion pictures -- France.
Feature films -- France.
Feature films.
Videotape no.5443.
Dakan [videorecording]
Guinea : Les Films dueme et La Sept Cinema; [San Francisco :
distributed by California Newsreel], c1997.
Dakan is the first feature film on homosexuality from sub-Saharan
Africa. It also is a contemporary African reinterpretation of
the age-old Romeo and Juliet conflict between love and social
convention.
Feature films.
Homosexuality, Male -- Africa -- Drama.
Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Social life and conditions -- Drama.
Videotape no.7710.
Daresalam [videorecording] / La Sept ARTE presente ; une
production Pierre Javaux Productions ; d'apres un scenario de
Issa Serge Clo et Ismael Ben-Cherif ; adaptation et
dialogues, Issa Serge Clo et Pierre Erwan Guillaume ; realise
par Issa Serge Clo.
San Francisco, Calif. : California Newsreel 2000.
This feature film focuses on two young men caught up in the Civil
War in Chad. It begins in the 1970s with the story of Koni and
Djimi as the central government invades their village and
insists on buying the farmer's millet at below market and then
browbeats the villagers into paying taxes to help fight the
war. When they resist the government burns the village and
massacres the inhabitants. Djimi, wounded, remains behind with
the hard-liners, while Koni joins a faction which supports
compromise with the government.
Chad -- History -- Civil War, 1965- -- Drama.
Chad -- Social conditions -- Drama.
Young men -- Chad -- Drama.
Feature films -- Chad.
Motion pictures -- Chad.
Feature films.
Videotape no.6769.
Divine carcasse [videorecording] / Underworld Films ; produced
and directed by Dominique Loreau.
San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, c1998.
"Divine Carcasse is an unusual hybrid, a half fictional, half
ethnographic film. It is a study in cultural contrast, between
a desacralized, materialistic European view of reality and an
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animist, pre-industrial African one. Belgian director
Dominique Loreau has described her film as an encounter with
another culture, another way of relating to the world, objects
and death, one that challenges our own relationships to the
world"--From the California Newsreel Web site.
Benin -- Social life and customs.
Culture conflict -- Benin.
Feature films.
Villages -- Africa -- Benin -- Drama.
Foreign films.
Videotape no.7476.
Dole [videorecording] / Jean-Jacques Hubert et Charles Mensah
presentent ; Direct & Differe ; Ce. Na. Ci. ; un film de Imunga
Ivanga.
San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 2001.
"The action takes place in Libreville, the capital of Gabon. This
is where Mougler and his friends Baby Lee, Joker, Akson and
Bezingo, four fifteen-year-old boys, live. These boys have to
fend for themselves, except for Mougler who lives with Maradou,
his mother. The gang is tired of thieving and is full of dreams
of more ambitious jobs. The opportunity is given to them with
the extremely popular betting kiosks in Dole. The temptation is
great, and so are the risks."
Juvenile delinquents -- Gabon -- Drama.
Teenage boys -- Gabon -- Drama.
Male friendship -- Gabon -- Drama.
Gabon -- Social conditions -- Drama.
Libreville (Gabon) -- Drama.
Robbery -- Drama.
Feature films -- Gabon.
Motion pictures -- Gabon.
Feature films.
Videotape no.6774.
Everyone's child [videorecording] / a Media for Development Trust
production ; screenplay by John Riber, Andrew Whaley, and
Tsitsi Dangarembga ; produced by Jonny Persey, John Riber, Ben
Zulu ; directed by Tsitsi Dangarembga.
San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, c1996.
In a rural village in Zimbabwe, Tamari, Itai, Norah and Nhamo are
devastated when both their parents die of AIDS. For the four
children this is a time of fear and survival as family and
neighbors turn their heads away because of the stigma of AIDS.
The city is just as hostile as is the village. In the end it is
only tragedy that can bridge the gulf of denial and make the
community realize that these are everyone's children.
Feature films.
AIDS phobia -- Drama.
Orphans -- Zimbabwe -- Drama.
Children -- Zimbabwe -- Drama.
Foreign films.
Motion pictures, Zimbabwean.
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Videotape no.7400.
Faat Kine [videorecording] / Filmi Doom Reew Dakar-Senegal
presente ; film de Sembene Ousmane ; directeur de production
Wongue Mbengue ; scenario, dialogues, realisation, Sembene
Ousmane.
San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, [2000]
"The deceptively light domestic drama of Faat Kine, a gas station
operator born, significantly, the same year as Senegalese
independence, 1960."-Women service industries workers -- Senegal -- Drama.
Single mothers -- Senegal -- Drama.
Service stations -- Senegal -- Drama.
Women -- Senegal -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Drama.
Senegal -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Drama.
Man-woman relationships -- Senegal -- Drama.
Patriarchy -- Senegal -- Drama.
Feature films -- Senegal.
Motion pictures -- Senegal.
Feature films.
Videotape no.6773.
Femmes aux yeux ouverts [videorecording] = Women with open
un film de Anne Laure Folly ; produit par Amanou Production.
San Francisco : California Newsreel, [1994], c1993.
Surveys social conditions faced by women in Burkina Faso, Mali,
Senegal and Benin, including circumcision, forced marriage,
AIDS, and economic repression. Examines grass-roots efforts
toward education and improvement as Africa opens to democracy.
Documentary films.
Women -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Economic conditions.
Women -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Social conditions.
Female circumcision.
Marriage customs and rites -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
AIDS (Disease) -- African, Sub-Saharan.
Women -- Diseases -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Women -- Africa, West -- Social conditions.
Feminism -- Africa, West.
Women -- Burkina Faso.
Women -- Mali.
Women -- Senegal.
Women -- Benin.
Sexually transmitted diseases -- Africa, West.
Clitoridectomy -- Africa, West.
Infibulation -- Africa, West.
Businesswomen -- Africa, West.
Africa, West -- Social conditions.
Videotape no.6777.
Fintar o destino [videorecording] : [Dribbling fate] / um filme
de Fernando Vendrell.
San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1998.
Fintar o destino is the Library of African Cinema's first sports
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film -- but a sports film with a distinctly African twist. It
is the story of the aging sport hero who holds onto his past so
strongly he destroys his present. At the same time, this film
explores a much broader tension, personal and political,
between remaining true to one's dreams or making the best of
the limited opportunities around us.
Feature films.
Videotape no.2264.
Finzan [videorecording] / une co-production Kora Films, ZDF, CNPC
; scenario et realisation, Cheick Oumar Sissoku.
San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, c1990.
Tells the story of two women's rebellion. Nanyuma, a young
widow, refuses her brother-in-law, the village fool, when he
asserts his traditional right to "inherit" her. Fili, a young
girl sent from the city by her conservative father, is brutally
circumcised by the village women who are scandalized that she
resists the age-old custom.
Bambara (African people) -- Marriage customs and rites -- Drama.
Bambara (African people) -- Social life and customs -- Drama.
Feature films.
Videotape no.5444.
Flame [videorecording]
[Zimbabwe ; San Francisco : distributed by Resolution, Inc./
California Newsreel, 1996.]
Feature film depicting the role of women fighters in the
Zimbabwean liberation struggle.
Feature films.
Women -- Zimbabwe -- Drama.
National liberation movements -- Zimbabwe -- Drama.
Videotape no.7072.
Grass is singing, The [videorecording] / Chibote Limited and the
Swedish Film Institute ; written and directed by Michael
Raeburn.
Vancouver, Canada : Villon Films, [1997?]
The story of a desperately independent city-bred woman who gives
up the comfort of her cosmopolitan life she's accustomed to for
the sake of her man and eventual husband. Joining her husband
in the African countryside where he is trying to make his way,
but is unprepared to deal with the reality of country living.
Gradually farm life begins to unnverve her, and in a grippling
series of events she loses her self-control and becomes
sexually involved with another man.
Africa -- Drama.
Africa -- Race relation -- Drama.
Feature films.
Videotape no.4764.
Guimba : [videorecording] un tyran, une epoque / Idrissa
Ouedraogo presente une production Kora-Films.
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San Francisco, Calif. : [distributed by] California Newsreel,
1995.
This epic in the legendary past of Mali (West Africa) provides an
allegory of present-day African politics. This is the story of
the downfall of Guimba the tyrant.
Africa, West -- History -- Fiction.
African language films.
Videotape no.5446.
Hyenas [videorecording] / produit par Pierre-Alain Meier et Alain
Rozanes.
San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, [1993?]
An old woman returns to her native village after she becomes rich
and seeks revenge against the lover of her youth. Eventually
she turns the village into a notorious black market, catering
to the pleasure of the consumer society. The film represents a
pessimistic look of the filmmaker Djibril Diop Mambety at the
fate of his continent, Africa.
Feature films.
Videotape no.6264-6266.
In a time of violence [videorecording] / an Afravision production
in association with International Broadcasting Trust for
Channel Four Television.
San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1994.
A story concerning changing values, violent cultural and
political clashes and conflict among black families in
Johannesburg, South Africa.
Johannesburg (South Africa) -- Drama.
South Africa -- Drama.
Violence -- South Africa -- Johannesburg -- Drama.
Family -- South Africa -- Johannesburg -- Drama.
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Videotape no.6765.
La Genese [videorecording] = Genesis / une coproduction Kora
Films, Balazan, CNPC, Cinema Public Films ; un film de Cheick
Oumar Sissoko.
San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1999.
Genesis is given a new spin which recasts a famous story by
relocating it in the nation of Mali and using a cast of African
actors. Covering Chapters 23-37, it recounts the story of Esau
whose birthright is stolen by his brother Jacob in exchange for
a plate of beans. This allegorical tale combines an accurate
interpretation of the Biblical story with relevant allusions to
African history and culture.
Jacob (Biblical patriarch) -- Drama.
Esau (Biblical figure) -- Drama.
Bible. O.T. Genesis -- Drama.
Motion pictures, African.
Mali -- In motion pictures.
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Videotape no.6763.
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La petite vendeuse de Soleil [videorecording] = The little girl
who sold The sun / productrice executive et deleguee, Silvia
Voser ; ecrit et realise, Djibril Diop Mambety ; production
Waka Films SA (Suisse), Cepheide Productions (France), Maag
Daan (Senegal)
San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel [distributor], 1999.
Parable uses the struggles of a young crippled girl in Dakar
trying to earn her living in the market place selling
newspapers to mirror Africa's role in the international
marketplace.
Feature films -- Senegal.
Videotape no.6269.
Language you cry in, The [videorecording] : the story of a Mende
song.
San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1998.
" ... traces the history of this song, a burial hymm of the Mende
people brought by slaves to the rice plantations of the Southeast
coast more than two hundred years ago"
Folk songs, Mende.
Africa -- Civilization.
African Americans -- Music.
Videotape no.6750.
Le Grand blanc de Lambarene [videorecording] = The great white
man of Lambarene / L.N. Production ... [et al.]
San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1995.
Schweitzer, Albert, 1875-1965 -- Drama.
Missionaries, Medical -- Gabon -- Lambarene (Moyen-Ogooue) –
Drama.
Gabon in motion pictures.
Feature films.
Videotape no.4012.
Lumumba, la mort du prophete [videorecording] = Lumumba, the
death of the prophet / une production Velvet Film GmbH, Berlin,
Cinemamma GmbH, Zurich en association avec La SEPT ; un film
de
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Raoul Peck.
San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, [1992], c1991.
Reexamines the independence struggle in the Belgian Congo and its
leader, Patrice Lumumba. This multi-award-winning film recounts
Lumumba's tragic 200 day rule culminating with his assassination.
Combines archival documentary footage of Lumumba with the memories
of journalists who reported from the Congo.
Lumumba, Patrice, 1925-1961.
Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Politics and government.
Videotape no.2266.
Mapantsula [videorecording] / a Max Montocchio production ;
[presented by] Haverbeam and David Hannay ; an Oliver Schmitz
and Thomas Mogotlane film.
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San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1988.
Panic is a mapantsula, a Zulu term for a petty crook. In South
Africa, he is imprisoned with Anti-apartheid activists. There
he is transformed into a man willing to become involved with
social change.
Anti-apartheid movements -- South Africa -- Drama.
Feature films.
South Africa -- Race relations -- Drama.
Videotape no.6323.
Mirror lied, The [videorecording] / directed by Jennifer HaskinO'Reggio.
New York, NY : Filmakers Library, [199-?]
How does a young African American woman deal with the ideals of
feminine beauty imposed by a white society? This film shows the
struggle of the filmmaker's fifteen-year-old sister, Jantre, to
accept her appearance. Though she spends an hour each day
trying to tame her unruly hair, she never feels attractive. In
a bold move to challenge her classmate's standards, Jantre goes
to school with her hair in its natural fullness.
African American teenage girls -- Psychology.
African American youth -- Psychology.
African American women -- Psychology.
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
Beauty, Personal -- Psychological aspects.
Body image in women.
Self-perception.
DVD 351.
Mister Johnson [videorecording]
Quebec, Canada : Direct Source Special Products Inc., c1999.
Funny and sometimes poignant look at the struggle between men of
the British Empire and African villagers.
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa -- Drama.
Ethnic relations -- Drama.
Assimilation (Sociology) -- Drama.
Africa -- Social life and customs -- Drama.
Feature films.
Videotape no.6776.
Monday's girls [videorecording] / BBC TV ; director, Ngozi
Onwurah ; producer, Lloyd Gardner.
San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, [1994]
A tribal chieftain's daughter who has lived in a large city for
some time agrees to return to her native village for
traditional pre-marital ceremonies involving body painting,
public breast examination and five-weeks' confinement to
"fattening rooms." Her refusal to fully participate in the
ritual sparks a crisis underlining the conflict between
traditional and modern African lifestyles.
Documentary films.
Initiation rites -- Nigeria -- Ogoloma.
Marriage customs and rites -- Nigeria -- Ogoloma.
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Women -- Nigeria -- Social life and customs.
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Mortu nega [videorecording] = Those whom death refused / um
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de Flora Gomes.
San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, [1998?]
"In 1973, independence was proclaimed [in Guinea Bissau], ending
five centuries of Portuguese colonization and a decade of armed
struggle. [This film], Gomes' first feature-length film,
portrays this critical period in history through the story of
one woman, Diminga, whose husband is fighting on the front
lines. The camera captures Cabral's assassination, the ending
of hostilities, and the reconstruction of the economically and
spiritually devastated country struggling with drought and
famine. The term "Mortu Nega" means those that death did not
want, and Gomes films a ceremony using 3000 extras, in which
survivors call upon the dead, asking them how they can go on
living in such terrible conditions.”
Motion pictures, African.
Droughts -- Guinea-Bissau -- Drama.
Famines -- Guinea-Bissau -- Drama.
Guinea-Bissau -- History -- Revolution, 1963-1974 -- Drama.
Guinea-Bissau -- Social conditions -- Drama.
Guinea-Bissau -- In motion pictures.
Africa -- In motion pictures.
Feature films.
Foreign films.
Videotape no.6263.
Pieces d'identites [videorecording] : = id / un film ecrit,
realise et produit par Mweze Ngangura.
San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1998.
1 videocassette (93 min.) : sd., col., b&w ; 1/2 in.
A Congolese king searches for his daughter in Brussels where for
a time he loses his royal fetishes, his identity, but finds a
friend, a local cabdriver with a secret identity. With his
help and a chain of coincidence (it must be destined), Mani
Kongo is reunited with his daughter and his regalia and returns
to Africa with a circle of friends.
Feature films.
Videotape no.6071.
Proud valley, The [videorecording] / CAPAD ; directed by Pen
Tennyson. Jericho / Max Schach presents a Buckingham film ;
directed by Thornton Freeland.
New York, NY : Bel Canto Society, c1995.
The proud valley: A sailor comes to a Welsh coal mining town and
helps reopen the mine at the cost of his life. Jericho: A
soldier flees from an unjust criminal conviction and is chased
across Africa.
Feature films.
Musical films.
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Adventure films.
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Videotape no.6735.
Quand les etoiles rencontrent la mer [videorecording] /
adaptation et dialogues, Raymond Rajaonarivelo et Santiago
Amigorena ; produit par Jacques Le Glou ; un film de Raymond
Rajaonarivelo.
San Francisco, Calif. : California Newsreel, c1996.
A boy born during a lunar eclipse survives abandonment and
inherits magical powers.
Feature films -- Madagascar.
Fantasy films -- Madagascar.
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Videotape no.6267.
Rostov-Luanda [videorecording] / un film de/ein Film von
Abderrahmane Sissako ; une production de/eine Produktion von
Movimento en coproduction avec/in Ko-Produktion ZDF, RTBF &
Morgane Films.
San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, c1997.
Sissako spent a year in Rostov on the Don and there became
friends with a young man from Angola. This film chronicles the
director' s search for a friend of the past. In this personal
retrospective, Sissako encounters present-day Angola and traces
the great lines of Africa's recent history.
Sissako, Abderrahmane.
Luanda (Angola) -- History.
Luanda (Angola) -- Social conditions.
Angola -- History -- Civil War, 1975- -- Personal narratives.
Rostov-na-Donu (Russia)
Videotape no.4897.
Rouch in reverse [videorecording] / a film by Manthia Diawara ; a
Formation Films production for ZDF/ARTE ; written and directed
by Manthia Diawara ; producer, Parminder Vir.
San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, c1995.
French ethnologist/filmmaker, Jean Rouch discusses his work with
Manthia Diawara.
Rouch, Jean.
Ethnologists -- France.
Ethnologists -- Niger.
Cinematographers -- France.
Motion pictures in ethnology.
Documentary films -- Production and direction.
Videotape no.2267.
Saaraba [videorecording] / eine film von Amadou Saalum Seck.
San Francisco, Calif. : California Newsreel, 1988.
A young man returns to his homeland after spending many years in
Europe. He and his homeland have changed in the interval and he
is caught between his simple upbringing, the Western influence
he was exposed to, and the corruption existing around him.
Foreign films -- Senegal.
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Senegal -- Social life and customs.
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Videotape no.8115.
Sallah [videorecording] / produced by Sallah, Ltd. ; producer
Menahem Golan ; directed and written by Ephraim Kishon.
[New York : Jewish Media Fund, 1997]
A satirical comedy showing the problems an immigrant family from
North Africa encounters in adjusting to life in Israel.
Comedy films.
Immigrants -- Israel -- Drama.
Jews, Moroccan -- Israel -- Drama.
Israel -- Emigration and immigration -- Drama.
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Videotape no.6753.
Sango Malo [videorecording]
San Francisco, Calif. : California Newsreel [distributor],
1991?]
A foreign film (Cameroon)
Cameroon fiction (French)
Videotape no.6754.
Tableau ferraille [videorecording]
San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1997.
Tells the story of an idealistic young politician's rise and
fall. Daam, a well-intentioned but vacillating Europeantrained politician, must choose between two social paradigms
exemplified by his two wives. The film offers a view of how
modernization, as practiced in today's Africa, corrodes
traditional communities and retards grassroots development.
Feature films.
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Videotape no.6764.
Ta Dona [videorecording] / Kora Film et le C.N.P.C.-Mali ;
direction de production, Mamadou Kaba ; ecrit et realise par
Adama Drabo.
San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel [distributor], c1991.
Tells the story of the quest for secret knowledge by a young
Bambara man. While working in a peasant village, the hero,
Sidy, searches for the seventh "canari", a forgotten, secret
Bambara herbal remedy used in childbirth. Faced with a
scorching drought and a corrupt government, Sidy manages to
save the village and rediscover the seventh "canari"
Feature films -- Mali.
Bambara (African people) -- Social life and customs -- Drama.
Political corruption -- Mali -- Drama.
Foreign films.
Motion pictures, Malian.
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Videotape no.5447.
Taafe fanga [videorecording] = Pouvoir de pagne = Skirt power /
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un film de Adama Drabo ; une coproduction Taare Films.
San Francisco, Calif. : California Newsreel, c1997.
In an eighteenth century Dogon village, the women terrorize the
men into assuming traditional women's roles.
Feature films -- Mali.
Man-woman relationships -- Mali -- Drama.
Videotape no.6754.
Tableau ferraille [videorecording]
San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1997.
Tells the story of an idealistic young politician's rise and
fall. Daam, a well-intentioned but vacillating Europeantrained politician, must choose between two social paradigms
exemplified by his two wives. The film offers a view of how
modernization, as practiced in today's Africa, corrodes
traditional communities and retards grassroots development.
Feature films.
Videotape no.6775.
These hands [videorecording] / Full Frame, Toronto.
San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1992.
Surveys a typical workday in the lives of impoverished women in
Tanzania who manually mine gravel used for making concrete for
urban building projects.
Tanzania -- Social conditions.
Women -- Tanzania -- Economic conditions.
Women -- Tanzania -- Social conditions.
Miners -- Tanzania -- Social conditions.
Videotape no.6734.
Three tales from Senegal [videorecording]
San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel [distributor], [1994]
Three Senegalese short films that adapt the ancient African art
of storytelling to the modern medium of film. Le franc is a
parable about the plight of everyday Africans buffeted by the
changing winds of the international monetary system. Picc mi is
a story of two destitute boys who escape the predatory demands
of adults to spend one day of freedom together. Fary l'anesse
is a tale of a man led into folly by his pursuit of the perfect
woman; when he thinks he has finally found her, she turns out
to be a donkey.
Folk literature, Wolof -- Film and video adaptations.
Wolof (African people) -- Folklore -- Film and video adaptations.
Short films -- Senegal.
Motion pictures, Senegalese.
Foreign films.
Feature films.
Videotape no.5445.
Udju azul di Yonta [videorecording] = The blue eyes of Yonta / um
filme de Flora Gomes ; direccao de producao, Angela Cerveira,
Ana Costa ; guiao e dialogos, Flora Gomes ... [et al.]
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San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1994.
Udju Azul di Yonta offers a portrait of the disillusionment of
the revolutionary generation in Guinea-Bissau and the vibrant,
if unintended society which developed after independence in
1973. It tells the story of three people so in love with their
dreams that they miss the real opportunities which life offers.
Feature films.
Guinea-Bissau -- Social conditions -- Drama.
Videotape no.2268.
Vie est belle [videorecording] : = life is rosy / Ngangura Mweze
and Bernard Lamy.
San Francisco, CA. : California Newsreel, 1987.
"La Vie est Belle tells the rags to riches story of a poor rural
musician from Zaire who realizes that to succeed in today's
music world he must go to the city and break into radio and
television."
Feature films.
Foreign films.
Zaire -- Drama.
Videotape no.6770.
Walk in the night, A [videorecording] / South African Braodcasting
Corporation ; produced by Mickey Madoda Dube and Mandla Langa
;
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writers, Mickey Madoda Dube, Mandla Langa, Molefi Moleli ;
directed by Mickey Madoda Dube.
San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, [1999?]
Recounts a single terrible night when the fragile world of Mikey
Adonis, a young coloured steel worker, disintegrates;
illustrates how a decent man can be driven to an act of
brutality by a racist society which humiliates him at every
turn.
Feature films.
Africa, South -- Race relations -- Drama.
Africa, South -- Social conditions -- Drama.
La Guma, Alex -- Video and film adaptations.
Videotape no.6771.
Woubi cheri [videorecording] / La Sept ARTE & Dominant 7
presentent ; un film de Philip Brooks & Laurent Bocahut.
San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1998.
"Woubi Cheri is the first film to give African homosexuals a
chance to describe their world in their own words. Often funny,
sometimes ribald, but always real, this documentary introduces
us to gender pioneers demanding their right to construct a
distinct African homosexuality"--California Newsreel Web site.
Gays -- Cote d'Ivoire -- Abidjan -- Social life and customs.
Gay men -- Cote d'Ivoire -- Abidjan -- Social life and customs.
Transvestites -- Cote d'Ivoire -- Abidjan.
Abidjan (Cote d'Ivoire) -- Social life and customs.
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Yeelen [videorecording] / Filimu SISE = Brightness / Cisse Films.
San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel [distributor], c1987.
Shows the destructive conflict between a father and son who vie
with each other for knowledge of the secrets of nature.
Bambara (African people) -- Drama.
Bambara (African people) -- Rites and ceremonies.
Videotape no.6752.
You, Africa! [videorecording] : Youssou N'Dour and Super Etoile :
the African tour / Kus Productions le CCF de Dakar ; directed
by Ndiouga Moctar Ba ; producers, Ndiouga Moctar Ba, Francois
Belorgey.
San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1994.
Documentary of the 1994 tour of nine West African nations by
Senegalese performing artist, Youssou N'Dour and his band and
back-up dancers, Super Etoile. In brief, private moments,
between concert performances, Youssou discusses the serious
political and spiritual purposes behind his music.
N'Dour, Youssou.
Musicians -- Senegal.
Musical groups -- Senegal.