Scribbles and Ramblings

1. Death Disturbs / La mort trouble (1970, co-directed with Claude d’Anna) 2. Caméra d’Afrique (1983) 3. Caméra Arabe (1987) 4. Halfaouine: ...

The challenge in making any top films list from a country or region is accessibility to quality works from that specific country/region. The...

 Soleil Ô (1967, Mauritania/France, Med Hondo) I had read about Med Hondo in a few posts over the years. Yet, I hadn’t seen any of his films...

Aristotle’s Plot (1996, France/UK/Zimbabwe, Jean-Pierre Bekolo) At its core, Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s Aristotle’s Plot is about that vita...

The 15 films from the 5 African Nations taking part in the 2014 Movie World Cup have been selected. Given the difficulty in finding Africa...

Back in February, inspired by an article in Sight and Sound , I sought out films from Africa. But the search proved challenging as most of t...

Inspired by the recent article on African Cinema in Sight and Sound , I decided to track down some African films. I had only seen two of the...