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- Over the last 20 years, Africa has experienced some 15 devastating civil wars with over 20 million victims in death, injury or displacement. Yet the West has turned a blind eye. This documentary sheds light about the conflict and post conflict reconstruction in particular in West Africa , discussing issues such as child soldiers and the many damaged victims of war and how they have found support. Missionaries have played a vital role in the restoration and healing process of post war conflict. The documentary is narrated by the former Australian Rock Star Themi Adams, who once toured with the Rolling Stones and who now heads the Orthodox Mission in Sierra Leone. He talks about how his mission in particular is contributing to the recovery process.
- A poor boy befriends a girl from a rich family who disapprove their relationship.
- Afro-Cubans preserve ancestral traditions. A filmmaker traces roots to Sierra Leone, where villagers recognize lost kin's customs. A joyous festival reunites the long-separated family through shared cultural heritage.
- THE LANGUAGE YOU CRY IN tells an amazing scholarly detective story that searches for, and finds meaningful links between African Americans and their ancestral past. It bridges hundreds of years and thousands of miles from the Gullah people of present-day Georgia back to 18th century Sierra Leone. It recounts the even more remarkable saga of how African Americans have retained links with their African past through the horrors of the middle passage, slavery and segregation. The film dramatically demonstrates the contribution of contemporary scholarship to restoring what narrator Vertamae Grosvenor calls the "non-history" imposed on African Americans: "This is a story of memory, how the memory of a family was pieced together through a song with legendary powers to connect those who sang it with their roots."
- Through the eyes of African filmmakers, an unforgettable portrait of Sierra Leone's heroes as they confront Ebola during the most acute public health emergency of modern times.
- In Freetown, Elder Ballu hears the news that the 400-year-old majestic Cotton Tree has fallen. Standing at the foot of what's left, he remembers the histories of the ancestors who crossed the Atlantic back to Africa to find freedom.
- Mr Ibu, a Nigerian heavyweight boxing champion goes to Sierra Leone to fight the Sierra Leone heavyweight boxing champion.
- Three young Africans set out to change their lives in the wake of civil war. A returnee from the US, a child soldier bound for Iraq and a diamond miner, they must rebuild their lives and answer the biggest question of all: how did their once peaceful country fall so far?
- A lady who was deceived by her female compatriot to travel to Lebanon for a job, and got abducted by a police officer in DRC who uses her as sex slave.
- A documentary about the life of Solomon Juxon-Smith: a political refugee working in a New York supermarket, and the son of a forgotten West African leader.
- Set in the Kono District of Sierra Leone, this docu-choreopoem captures the beauty of Blackness through the lens of the youth coming of age amid a skin bleaching epidemic.
- A short documentary looking at the rights of the communities in Sierra Leone and the challenges they face
- Synopsis: A protective dad refuses to let a leader of a dangerous gang date his daughter. He goes all out to destroy their relationship to the extent of assaulting the gang leader any time he sees him. The gang leader does something that makes the protective dad repents and blessed their relationship.
- One year into the devastating Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, we summarised the incredible work of the International Rescue Committee with reflection from the aid workers on what it's meant to work on the response
- A young man who survived the horrors of the Sierra Leonean civil war as a child and elevated himself through education has set on a journey to face his past and rebuild the country he once saw destroyed.
- Documentary showing how lack of planning, migration from the countryside and poor sanitation is destroying the environment around Freetown, Sierra Leone. Deforestation in the countryside is resulting in debris pouring into the city via its waterways in the rainy season, resulting in ground-water contamination, pollution of the water supply, outbreaks of disease in the population and vital fishing grounds being depleted.
- Juliana, a successful young woman, strives to find love and acceptance in the face of adversity.
- Ndogboyosui takes its name from a trickster spirit in Mende folklore that represents the dangerous deceptions of the Sierra Leonean forest. This experimental ethnographic documentary offers the voices of local residents as they recount stories of dangerous encounters on the road, from ghost stories to memories of war to tales of traffic accidents. The video uses images of the very same locations taken from the backs of the motorbike taxis that now race across this region, reversing and slowing down their progress in order to encourage a lingering gaze upon a landscape that might otherwise be overlooked.
- Fayia is a 16-year-old Liberian refugee living on his own in a United Nations camp set up in Sierra Leone. A child of the wars in both countries, he is a survivor, making a life for himself by harvesting palm wine from the jungle to sell in the nearby city. But he's also just a teenager, looking for love and answers to some of life's big questions. A hybrid film project developed, created in collaboration with, and featuring the people of Jimmi Bagbo Refugee Camp.
- Shado'man is a cinematic journey undertaken by the filmmaker together with the street boys. The camera becomes a nucleus around which their life unfolds, unlocking a space for previously unshared pains, dreams and aspirations. The film delves into the inner world of each character to reveal the dignity of humans surviving under inhumane conditions.
- During the civil war in Sierra Leone, which became infamous for the use of drug-fueled child soldiers, thousands of people had one or both arms chopped off: the hand that you used to vote for civilian government, that you will never vote with again.
- Fourah Bay College is Sierra Leone's most prestigious university, situated on Mount Aureol and overlooking the national capital, Freetown. The university, like the country at large, is still recovering from the devastating civil war of the 1990s. This film explores the bitter and sometimes violent political divide that has taken hold amongst the current generation of students, all of whom grew up during the war, and the role of national politicians down in Freetown in fomenting this rivalry. These students are held up as the country's future: but what kind of future will it be?