African cinema is one of the most overlooked traditions in world filmmaking. It is home to a plethora of unique voices and modes of storytelling that people simply do not know. This is a video that hopefully can expose people to those often overlooked films and the people who make them.

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THE FATHER OF AFRICAN CINEMA
1:43 Black Girl (Dir: Ousmane Sembène)
3:30 Ceddo/Moolade/Mandabi/Camp De Thiaroye/Xala (Dir: Ousmane Sembène)

REVOLUTIONARY CINEMA
8:11 The Battle of Algiers (Dir: Gillo Pontecorvo)
9:06 Africa Addio (Dir: Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi)
9:52 West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty (Dir: Med Hondo)
11:23 Soleil O (Dir: Med Hondo)
11:56 Sambizanga (Dir: Sarah Maldoror)
13:12 Cairo Station (Dir: Youssef Chahine)
13:51 The Land (Dir: Youssef Chahine)
14:54 Chronicle of The Years of Fire (Dir: Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina)
17:13 Harvest 3000 Years (Dir: Haile Gerima)

THE AVANT-GARDE
18:37 Teza (Dir: Haile Gerima)
19:30 Yeelen (Dir: Souleymane Cissé)
21:03 This Is Not A Burial, It's A Resurrection Dir: Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese)
22:30 Buud Yam (Dir: Gaston Kaboré)
23:32 I Am Not A Witch (Dir: Rungano Nyoni)
24:15 Timbuktu (Dir: Abderrahmane Sissako)
24:26 Muna Moto (Dir: Jean-Pierre Dikongué Pipa)
25:03 Touki Bouki (Dir: Djibril Diop Mambety)
27:09 Hyenas (Dir: Djibril Diop Mambety)
28:00 A Camel (Dir: Ibrahim Shaddad)
28:49 Bye-Bye Africa (Dir: Mahamat Saleh Haroun)
30:57 Talking About Trees (Dir: Suhaib Gasmelbari)

DIY CINEMA
34:53 Ramon Film Productions (Who Killed Captain Alex/Bad Black/Crazy World/The Return of Uncle Benon)

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