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  1. CFB's Greatest Films of Sub-Saharan Africa's icon

    CFB's Greatest Films of Sub-Saharan Africa

    Favs/dislikes: 7:0. The greatest films of sub-Saharan Africa cinema as selected by the members of IMDb's Classic Film Board.
  2. Ousmane Sembene filmography's icon

    Ousmane Sembene filmography

    Favs/dislikes: 6:0. Movies made by Ousmane Sembene.
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    Black Film Archive

    Favs/dislikes: 4:0. ABOUT THE SITE Black Film Archive celebrates the rich, abundant history of Black cinema. We are an evolving archive dedicated to making historically and culturally significant films made from 1898 to 1989 about Black people accessible through a streaming guide with cultural context. HOW DOES BLACK FILM ARCHIVE DEFINE A BLACK FILM? The films collected on Black Film Archive have something significant to say about the Black experience; speak to Black audiences; and/or have a Black star, writer, producer, or director. This criterion for selection is as broad and inclusive as possible, allowing the site to cover the widest range of what a Black film can be. The films listed here should be considered in conversation with each other, as visions of Black being on film across time. They express what only film can: social, anthropological, and aesthetic looks at the changing face of Black expression (or white attitudes about Black expression, which are inescapable given the whiteness of decision-makers in the film industry). ABOUT THE CURATOR Maya S. Cade is the creator and curator of Black Film Archive and a scholar-in-residence at the Library of Congress. She has been awarded special distinctions by the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics for the Archive. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, NPR, The Paris Review, Vulture, among other publications. She is the fall 2022 programmer in residence at Indiana University’s Cinema and was the fall 2021 research fellow at Indiana University's Black Film Center & Archive. Originally hailing from New Orleans, Maya is based in Brooklyn. Black Film Archive is a resource Maya has been hoping to discover for as long as she can remember. In June 2020, she decided to start building it herself. Every word on Black Film Archive is thoroughly researched and lovingly written by her. NOTES FROM THE ICHECKER In keeping with the official iCheckMovies list for the Library of Congress, I listed the shorts of Rev. Solomon Sir Jones separately (Films 1-29) versus one title "Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movies" like on BFA. As of January 2023, there are twelve BFA titles missing from my list because I could not track them down on either iCheckMovies or IMDB: Foye Family Home Video #3 Wedding Reception The Killing Floor Gotta Make This Journey: Sweet Honey in the Rock The Black Cop Steel Drums in New York Color Us Black! Off the Pigs Azz Izz Jazz To Live As Free Men Cheryl America, They Loved You Madly; Interview with John Lewis.
  4. Mark Cousins' African Cinema: Ten of the Best's icon

    Mark Cousins' African Cinema: Ten of the Best

    Favs/dislikes: 3:0. To celebrate Africa Express rolling out across the UK, here's a guide to 10 classic films to have come from the continent
  5. Taste of Cinema's 20 Essential African Films's icon

    Taste of Cinema's 20 Essential African Films

    Favs/dislikes: 3:0. "Many African films that remain popular deal with the parallels between Africa’s past in relations to its modern present state. From this, we view a wide range of topics such as traditions, ideological and political institutions that were set by colonizers which remain long after their dissolution, gender roles, and the significance of oral narratives and language. The films created link the past, present and future of the continent in a way that doesn’t trail the concept of time. Images shown in most the films are a part of a grander story built on layers upon layers of analogies, metaphors and societal events containing many interconnected connotations. African Cinema as well as other foreign or international films are a tremendous vehicle for enlightenment, education and cultural awareness that some just don’t experience in their lifetime. African films will forever be commemorated as a valuable archive of memory, knowledge and wisdom that is worth preserving, reinterpreted and studied. Here is a procurement of 20 of the best in African films that we recommend you start watching."
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    Algerian Movies

    Favs/dislikes: 1:0. Algerian Movies
  7. Mahen Bonetti's The Best of African Film's icon

    Mahen Bonetti's The Best of African Film

    Favs/dislikes: 1:0. Mahen Bonetti is the founder and Executive Director of the New York African Film Festival, a non-profit arts organization founded in 1990, which aims to highlight the work of African filmmakers and share the culture of African film. Below she chooses 10 films to introduce audiences to African cinema. "I have chosen 10 films which, I feel, begin to tell our stories in our own words and belong in the annals of international cinema. Some are classics, some are audience favorites, some reconnect us to our past, some reflect deep societal trends."
  8. Buzz Nigeria - Top 10 Nigerian Hausa Movies's icon

    Buzz Nigeria - Top 10 Nigerian Hausa Movies

    Favs/dislikes: 0:0. The Hausa movie industry is also known as Kannywood in Nigeria. It traces its way to as far back as the early 1960s in Kaduna. The industry has continued to grow over the years with the population of viewers rising especially in the Northern part of Nigeria where Hausa is the major language. Surprisingly, Nigerian Hausa movies has reached the shores of different African countries where the Hausa language is spoken. As a result, the industry has had collaborations with Nollywood and have some of its actors like Ali Nuhu, Sani Danja, and Rahama Sadau become major actors in Nollywood. For its popularity, acceptance, and wealth it generates in recent times, there is a quest to know which Hausa movie is the best. Top 10 list from Emeka Chigozie (October 28, 2023)
  9. FilmWalrus - Favorite African Movies's icon

    FilmWalrus - Favorite African Movies

    Favs/dislikes: 0:0. My favorite movies from Africa.
  10. Ghana Movie Awards - Best Picture's icon

    Ghana Movie Awards - Best Picture

    Favs/dislikes: 0:0. The Ghana Movie Awards (MAG) is an event to recognize excellence by annually honoring achievements of Actors, writers, directors, producers, technicians and other personalities in the film making industry of Africa. No event: 2017, 2022, 2023
  11. Marrakech International Film Festival - Golden Star (Étoile d’or)'s icon

    Marrakech International Film Festival - Golden Star (Étoile d’or)

    Favs/dislikes: 0:0. The Marrakech International Film Festival was created in 2001 by His Majesty King Mohammed VI to promote and develop the art of cinema and the film industry in Morocco.
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    My Seen Movies from Africa

    Favs/dislikes: 0:0. The movies I have seen from the continent of Africa, well at least according to IMDb and Letterboxd. Ordered from best to worst.
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