List of African films

The following is a list of African films. It is arranged alphabetically by country of origin.

Algeria

Main article: List of Algerian films

Angola

Main article: List of Angolan films

Benin

Main article: List of Beninese films

Botswana

Year	Title	Director	Genre	Notes
1980	The Gods Must Be Crazy	Jamie Uys	comedy	the first of The Gods Must Be Crazy film series
1989	The Gods Must Be Crazy II	Jamie Uys	comedy	part of The Gods Must Be Crazy film series

Burkina Faso

Main article: List of Burkinabé films

Burundi

Year	Title	Director	Genre	Notes
1992	Gito l'ingrat	Léonce Ngabo

Cameroon

Main article: List of Cameroonian films

Cape Verde

Year	Title	Director	Genre	Notes
2000	Amílcar Cabral	Ana Ramos Lisoba	documentary
2024	Hanami	Denise Fernandes	Drama

Central African Republic

Main article: List of Central African films

Chad

Main article: List of Chadian films

Congo, Democratic Republic of

Main article: Cinema of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Congo, Republic

Main article: List of Republic of Congo films

Djibouti

Year	Title	Director	Genre	Notes
2011	Laan = girls, friends = Les copines	Lula Ali Ismail	drama	[1]

Egypt

Main article: List of Egyptian films

Equatorial Guinea

Year	Title	Director	Genre	Notes
2015	Aricó caliente	Raimundo Bernabé Nnandong	drama	[2]
2016	Desamparad@s	Raimundo Bernabé Nnandong	drama	[3]

Eritrea

Year	Title	Director	Genre	Notes
2001	White Hotel	Dianne Griffin, Tobi Solvang	documentary

Ethiopia

Main article: List of Ethiopian films

Gabon

Main article: List of Gabonese films

Gambia

• Welcome to the Smiling Coast: Living in the Gambian Ghetto
• Jaha's Promise

Ghana

Year	Title	Director	Genre	Notes
1952	The Boy Kumasenu	Sean Graham
1980	Love Brewed in the African Pot	Kwaw Ansah
1987	Zinabu	William Akuffo and Richard Quartey
1993	Sankofa	Haile Gerima	drama	This film is Burkinabé,[ clarification needed ] but shot in Ghana.
2005	Emmanuel's Gift	Lisa Lax and Nancy Stern	documentary
2006	Run Baby Run	Emmanuel Apea	action
2006	A Goat's Tail	Julius Amedume
2007	Princess Tyra	Frank Rajah Arase	drama
2009	A Sting in a Tale	Shirley Frimpong-Manso	thriller
2010	Coz Ov Moni	King Luu	musical
2010	Sinking Sands	Leila Djansi	drama
2011	An African Election	Jarreth and Kevin Merz	documentary
2011	Ties That Bind	Leila Djansi	drama
2012	Contract	Shirley Frimpong-Manso
2013	Coz Ov Moni 2 (FOKN Revenge)	King Luu	musical
2015	Heaven	Abu Idi - Haus of Euphorium	thriller
2021	Borga  [ de ]	York-Fabian Raabe  [ de ]	drama	German-Ghanaian co-production

Guinea

Main article: List of Guinean films

Guinea-Bissau

Year	Title	Director	Genre	Notes
1988	Mortu Nega	Flora Gomes	historical drama

Ivory Coast

Main article: List of Ivorian films

Kenya

Main article: List of Kenyan films

Lesotho

• Goldwidows: Women in Lesotho 1991

Libya

Year	Title	Director	Genre	Notes
1972	When Fate Hardens (also known as Destiny is Very Hard)	Abdella Zarok	feature film	[4]
1974	The Road	Mohamed Shaaban	feature film	[4]
1976	Mohammad, Messenger of God (also known as The Message)	Moustapha Akkad	biographical adventure drama
1977	Les Ambassadeurs	Naceur Ktar	drama
1977	The Green Light (al-Daw’ al-Akhdar)	Abedalla Mushbahi		[4]
1981	Lion of the Desert	Moustapha Akkad	biographical war drama
1983	Battle of Tagrift (Ma’rakat Taqraft)	Mushafa Kashem and Mohamed Ayad Driza	war drama	[4]
1985	The Bomb Shell (al-Shaziya) (also known as The Splinter)	Mohamed Ferjani		[4]
1986	Love in Narrow Alleys (Hub fi al-aziqa al-dayiqa)	Muhamad Abd al-Jalil Qanidi		[5]
1993/4	Symphony of Rain (Ma’azufatu al-matar)	Abdella Zarok		[4]

Madagascar

Year	Title	Director	Genre	Notes
1988	Tabataba	Raymond Rajaonarivelo
2004	Souli	Alexander Abela	drama

Malawi

Year	Title	Director	Genre	Notes
2003	Lifecycles: A Story of AIDS in Malawi	Sierra Bellows, Doug Karr	documentary

Mali

Main article: List of Malian films

Mauritania

Main article: List of Mauritanian films

Mauritius

Main article: List of Mauritian films

Morocco

Main article: List of Moroccan films

• Tes Cheveux Noirs Ihsan (2006)

Mozambique

Main article: List of Mozambican films

Namibia

Year	Title	Director	Genre	Notes
1989	Red Scorpion	Joseph Zito	action adventure
2007	Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation	Charles Burnett	drama
2009	Rider without a Horse	Tim Huebschle	short film
2011	Looking for Iilonga	Tim Huebschle	short film
2015	Katutura	Florian Schott	drama
2019	Hairareb	Oshoveli Shipoh	drama
2019	#LANDoftheBRAVEfilm	Tim Huebschle	thriller
2020	Walking Forward	Tim Huebschle, Ndinomholo Ndilula	web series

Niger

Main article: List of Nigerien films

Nigeria

Main article: List of Nigerian films

Rwanda

Year	Title	Director	Genre	Notes
2001	100 Days	Nick Hughes	drama
2004	Hotel Rwanda	Terry George	historical drama war
2005	Sometimes in April	Raoul Peck	historical drama war television film
2007	Munyurangabo	Lee Isaac Chung
2012	Ibara	Tom Nkusi/Emmy Ruzindana	action

Sierra Leone

Year	Title	Director	Genre	Notes
2000	Cry Freetown	Sorious Samura	documentary
2012	SALAY	Ali Kamanda	short-film

Somalia

Main article: List of Somali films

Year	Title	Director	Genre	Notes
1987	Geedka nolosha	Abdulkadir Ahmed Said
1992	La Conchiglia	Abdulkadir Ahmed Said

South Africa

Main article: List of South African films

South Sudan

• Jebel Nyoka
• The Nuer

Sudan

Year	Title	Director	Genre	Notes
2005	God Grew Tired of Us	Christopher Dillon Quinn, Tommy Walker	documentary

Tanzania

Year	Title	Director	Genre	Notes
2001	Maangamizi: The Ancient One	Martin Mhando, Ron Mulvihill	drama
2003	Bongoland	Josiah Kibira

Togo

Year	Title	Director	Genre	Notes
1972	Kouami	Metonou Do Kokou	short
1979	Au rendez-vous du rêve abêti	Kodjo Goncalves	short documentary
1986	The Blooms of Banjeli	Carlyn Saltman	short documentary
1988	Bawina	Minza Bataba	short
1991	Ashakara	Gérard Louvin
1994	Femmes aux yeux ouverts	Anne-Laure Folly	documentary
1996	Les Oubliées	Anne-Laure Folly	documentary
1999	Sarah Maldoror ou la nostalgie de l'utopie	Anne-Laure Folly	documentary
2002	Le Dilemme d'Eya	Adjiké Assouma	short drama

Tunisia

Main article: List of Tunisian films

Uganda

Year	Title	Director	Genre	Notes
1998	Guns for Sale	Richard Alwyn	documentary
2001	ABC Africa	Abbas Kiarostami	documentary
2006	Invisible Children		short documentary
2010	Who Killed Captain Alex?	Nabwana IGG	action film
2010	Yogera	Donald Mugisha	drama film
2011	Hello	Usama Mukwaya	short
2011	State Research Bureau
2012	The Life	Nana Kagga	drama film
2013	In Just Hours	Usama Mukwaya	short	[6]
2013	The Route
2014	Bala Bala Sese
2015	Tiktok	Usama Mukwaya	short
2015	Sipi
2016	Queen of Katwe	Mira Nair	sports drama
2016	Bad Black	Nabwana IGG	action film
2017	Kony: Order from Above	Steve T. Ayeny	war film
2018	Veronica's Wish	Rehema Nanfuka	feature film	Drama film
2018	BreadWinner	Ochwo emmax	short film	Drama film
2021	Black Glove	Angella Emurwon	Mystery-thriller	Produced at Sebamala Arts in conjunction with SOLOFX in Uganda.

Western Sahara

Year	Title	Director	Genre	Notes
1976	Sahara Occidental indépendance ou génocide?	Collective direction	documentary	[7]
2011	Wilaya	Pedro Pérez Rosado	drama
2012	La Badil (No Other Choice)	Dominic Brown	short documentary

Zaire

Year	Title	Director	Genre	Notes
1996	Macadam tribu	José Zeka Laplaine

Zambia

Main article: List of Zambian films

Zimbabwe

Main article: List of Zimbabwean films

• Forbidden Fruit (2000)

See also

• Africa portal
• Film portal
• Lists portal

• Cinema of Africa
• Lists of films

References

1. "Catalogue African Studies Centre" . Retrieved 2018-09-23.
2. "Catalogue African Studies Centre" . Retrieved 2018-09-23.
3. "Catalogue African Studies Centre" . Retrieved 2018-09-23.
4. Hans-Christian Mahnke and Ramadan Salim, On Film and cinema in Libya – Interview with Libyan film critic and festival director Ramadan Salim, African Film Festival, Inc., 2014.
5. Film in Libya, in Annette Kuhn & Guy Westwell, A Dictionary of Film Studies, Oxford University Press, online version, 2012.
6. "In Just Hours | Ugscreen | Ugandan Movies, Actors, Movie News". Archived from the original on 2014-11-29. Retrieved 2014-05-04.
7. "SAHARA OCCIDENTAL INDÉPENDANCE OU GÉNOCIDE ? - Bruno MUEL - 1976". Ciné-Archives (in French). Retrieved 17 December 2023.

External links

• African Media Program Database, Michigan State University - comprehensive database of more than 14,000 African films and videos