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- DirectorJohn ConeyStarsSun RaRaymond JohnsonChristopher BrooksIn an effort to bring unity and equality to African-Americans, an interstellar traveler and musician lands on earth and duels with an evil overlord for the souls of people.
- DirectorJean-Pierre BekoloStarsAdèle AdoDorylia CalmelEmile Abossolo M'boIn Jean-Pierre Bekolo's barbed political satire, an infectious hybrid of horror and science fiction, vampiric femmes fatales emasculate high-ranking Cameroonian officials through ancient rituals of Mevoungou.
- DirectorMiguel LlansóStarsDaniel TadesseQuino PiñeroSelam TesfayieOur figurine sized supermen hero embarks on an epic surreal journey that will take him across the Ethiopian post apocalyptic landscape in search of a way to get on the hovering spacecraft that for years has become a landmark in the skies.
- DirectorSimon RittmeierStarsAlexander BeyerRodrigue OuattaraAdama VenegdaThomas is a smuggler, shipping European refugees who hope to find a better life in Africa. One day his boat sinks and he is washed up on the African coast as the only survivor. He then makes his way to the nearest city - Drexciya.
- DirectorJean-Pierre BekoloStarsWeza Da SilvaLuthuli DlaminiAkin OmotosoWanita (Weza Da Silva), is on a search for her identity. As it is often the case in Bekolo's work, the personal identity of the character is but the smallest manifestation of an identity struggle for an entire people, and the identity struggle of the film itself, of the process of filmmaking, which in this case is literally trying to form itself before our eyes. This is an "afrofuturistic/sci-fi" film, as the website describes it, taking place 150 years in the future when the human race is plagued by a terrible virus - "bad luck." The main character seemingly travels back and forth between the present and the future, and also carries on conversations with ancestors as well as with alternate selves, like Wanita Bis, who wants to be a television star. But the ultimate goal of the film is a philosophical and aesthetic exploration of the dividing line between fiction and reality, which is perhaps Bekolo's main artistic interest. Among the director's memorable lines on the topic, consider the following: "We shouldn't just be making movies, we should be changing reality." Naked Reality relies on a few visual tricks that support the material split between reality and fiction. The black and white creates a stylized atmosphere that, through sharp contrasts, aggressively suggests the future. It also brings to mind experimentation, but at a formal level, it points to a lack (through the implicit lack of color). And this is a film that is indeed missing various parts. The dualism at work here is reinforced in the director's choice of the superimposition. This is a transition effect used to link up two shots that overlap for a few seconds, but in this film the superimpositions last unusually long (by classical cinema conventions). A low-angle shot that travels under the trees returns several times to provide the characters with a kind of visual base on which to build another scene. Since the film lacks traditional sets, the visual splits and fills that void of materiality with itself, as it were. There are also several upside-down shots and a few edited through a negative filter - the reverse of the initial reality. Characters also speak to each other as they peek from behind a curtain, shot through a grainy filter. VLAD DIMA
- DirectorWanuri KahiuStarsKudzani MoswelaChantelle BurgerTammy RichardsA sci-fi film about Africa in the future, 35 years after World War III, the water war.
- DirectorLouis HendersonLettres du Voyant is a documentary-fiction about spiritism and technology in contemporary Ghana, which attempts to uncover some truths about a mysterious practice called 'Sakawa'.
- DirectorJohn ConeyStarsSun RaRaymond JohnsonChristopher BrooksIn an effort to bring unity and equality to African-Americans, an interstellar traveler and musician lands on earth and duels with an evil overlord for the souls of people.
- DirectorNgozi OnwurahStarsSuzette LlewellynSaffron BurrowsFelix JosephRacial violence breaks out in a huge, black ghetto - triggered by a white woman living there with a black man.
- DirectorJohn AkomfrahStarsOctavia ButlerGeorge ClintonKodwo EshunFramed by the fictional story of the "data thief," this hybrid documentary takes a look at the origins, impact and significance of Afrofuturism and techno music for the black diaspora.
- DirectorStephen NorringtonStarsWesley SnipesStephen DorffKris KristoffersonA half-vampire, half-mortal man becomes a protector of the mortal race, while slaying evil vampires.
- DirectorTerence NanceStarsAlisa BecherJc CainReg E. CatheyAn artist's shortsighted film about a failed relationship is reedited into a more collaborative, more inclusive work of art.
- DirectorWanuri KahiuStarsKudzani MoswelaChantelle BurgerTammy RichardsA sci-fi film about Africa in the future, 35 years after World War III, the water war.
- DirectorKibwe TavaresStarsYung Swizz'AggKibwe TavaresBrixton has degenerated into a disregarded area inhabited by London's new robot workforce - robots built and designed to carry out all of the tasks which humans are no longer inclined to do. The mechanical population of Brixton has rocketed, resulting in unplanned, cheap and quick additions to the skyline. The film follows the trials and tribulations of young robots surviving at the sharp end of inner city life, living the predictable existence of a populous hemmed in by poverty, disillusionment and mass unemployment. When the Police invade the one space which the robots can call their own, the fierce and strained relationship between the two sides explodes into an outbreak of violence echoing that of 1981.
- DirectorNuotama BodomoStarsDiandra ForrestYolonda RossHoji Fortuna16th July 1969: America prepares to launch Apollo 11. Thousands of kilometers away, a ragtag group of Zambian exiles is trying to beat America to the Moon.
- DirectorTerence NanceStarsRylee NykholJontille GerardCrystal CottonIn a dystopian future where people live nocturnally to avoid the harmful rays of the sun, a young black girl unravels the lie that has kept her and her sister in the dark.
- DirectorHaile GerimaStarsKofi GhanabaOyafunmike OgunlanoAlexandra DuahA self-absorbed Black American fashion model on a photo shoot in Africa is spiritually transported back to a plantation in the West Indies where she experiences first-hand the physical and psychic horrors of chattel slavery, and eventually the redemptive power of community and rebellion as she becomes a member of a freedom-seeking Maroon colony.
- DirectorJohn AkomfrahStarsOctavia ButlerGeorge ClintonKodwo EshunFramed by the fictional story of the "data thief," this hybrid documentary takes a look at the origins, impact and significance of Afrofuturism and techno music for the black diaspora.
- DirectorPaul D. HannahStarsIsaiah WashingtonLisa ArrindellSalli Richardson-WhitfieldRose Ricard has a gift, she can see into your soul. She can discern the truth from a lie and sometimes, she can perceive the very thoughts before they are formed in your mind. She uses these gifts to solve unsolved cases and bring closure where there is none. Her most recent case, unwittingly opens the doors to her own past and that of her new partner Grant Summit.
- DirectorSharon LewisStarsMouna TraoréNigel Shawn WilliamsShakura S'AidaIt's 2049 on a forsaken island off the coast of Toronto where the survival of the islanders depends on young Ti-Jeanne to risk death by a spirit so she can take her place as a caribbean priestess and save her people.
- DirectorC.J. 'Fiery' ObasiStarsKeiraTunde AladeseOgee NelsonA Scientist-Witch through an alchemical combination of juju and technology creates wigs which grants she and her friends supernatural powers. But when their powers grow uncontrollable, she must stop them by any means.