African Woman Movies

The true story of Saartje Baartman, a black South African worker who moves to London with her master in the early 19th century. Although she dreams...

A star athlete has to come to terms with her debilitating grief to regain her confidence and finish her race.

In this segment on immigrant cultures for the television program Mosaïque, a young Senegalese woman who cooks in a workers’ hostel dreams...

The women of Ghana have a reputation for independence. They, rather than the men, sit enthroned at the market stalls and run a large proportion of...

Clara is a lazy and irresponsible teenager, who live in Bissau (the capital city of Guinea-Bissau), and uses her beauty as a weapon. Everyone around...