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Un trabajador en un matadero debe anular sus emociones para poder seguir haciendo un trabajo que encuentra repugnante, y descubre que tiene poca empatía por su familia.

A 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.

Seventy short films about cinema and its future.

Musical épico que abarca siglos, desde la esclavitud hasta la inmigración del siglo XX, presenta un vibrante despliegue de coreografías, diversos estilos musicales y una mordaz sátira, todo ambientado en un enorme barco negrero

The Ethiopian intellectual Anberber returns to his native country during the repressive totalitarian regime of Haile Mariam Mengistu and the recognition of his own displacement and powerlessness at the dissolution of his people's humanity and social values. After several years spent studying medicine in Germany, he finds the country of his youth replaced by turmoil. His dream of using his craft to improve the health of Ethiopians is squashed by a military junta that uses scientists for its own political ends. Seeking the comfort of his countryside home, Anberber finds no refuge from violence. The solace that the memories of his youth provide is quickly replaced by the competing forces of military and rebelling factions. Anberber needs to decide whether he wants to bear the strain or piece together a life from the fragments that lie around him.

En Etiopía hierve la enemistad entre un acaudalado señor y un manifestante que considera que maltrata a sus jornaleros. Mientras, el espectador examina de cerca la cultura, las conversaciones y las vidas de los lugareños que les rodean.

Tres hermanos puertorriqueños se retiran a un pueblo de Nueva York tras la muerte de su padre durante el atraco a un banco. Allí son contratados por una anciana irlandesa para renovar su casa y poder dar una última fiesta.

A jazz musician joins a revolution upon his release from prison.

In 1896, Ethiopia, an African nation, largely armed with spears and knives, defeats a well-equipped and organized Italian military bent on colonization.

In a poor and isolated Tunisian community, the chief's daughter learns that her husband's body has been returned dead, from a foreign land.

Un atribulado veterano de Vietnam que espera olvidar la guerra y reencontrarse con la vida americana lucha contra la desilusión, la autoestima y el cinismo.

Explores the process of relocating poor people under the guise of 'Urban Renewal.'

In the 1950s, African Americans from all walks of life followed Kwame Nkrumah's call to come home to live and work in Africa. It was a call to not only help rebuild the independent country of Ghana, but to also join in the creation of a liberated Pan-African territory. On the day that Ghana's independence was proclaimed, Nkrumah, who became Ghana's first president, stated that Ghana's independence was meaningless unless it was linked to the liberation of the whole of Africa. Intertwining the struggles of the Diaspora and Africa, Footprints of Pan-Africanism honors the powerful bonds that were so crucial to this era. While one country was struggling for equity and the other for independence, both movements were rooted in a determination to reassert their humanity and recover from the impact of slavery and colonialism.

A woman dressed in a robe, hands bound, is being transported through a barroom into a jail cell, directly outside of which later appears a jury box filled with jurors. Linearity is rejected as space is treated poetically, following the coordinates of a propulsive social idea - the social imprisonment of black women.