Manu Dibango Trailers
Soul Makossa Manu Dibango jazz Open Stuttgart - 1995 TrailerThe Rumba Kings TrailerAfrica Rising Trailer
Soul Makossa Manu Dibango jazz Open Stuttgart - 1995 TrailerThe Rumba Kings TrailerAfrica Rising Trailer
Total trailers found: 24
10 June 2009
Soul Power is a 2008 documentary film about the Zaire 74 music festival in Kinshasa which accompanied the Rumble in the Jungle heavyweight boxing championship match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in October 1974.
24 February 1989
A warm summer in Montreal. Two black men, Man and Bouba, share an apartment. Man is an ambitious author, writing on The Great Novel.
01 October 1982
A young hustler tries to get drug money by selling a boy to a middle-aged man; his plans are disrupted when the kid dies.
28 November 1997
This standard slice-of-life drama is about Dju Dibonga (Richard Courcet), a young man who leaves his home on Cabo Verde, an island of Portuguese dependency off the coast of Africa, to go to Luxembourg and search for his father.
06 May 2021
In the fifties, when the future Democratic Republic of Congo was still a Belgian colony, an entire generation of musicians fused traditional African tunes with Afro-Cuban music to create the electrifying Congolese rumba, a style that conquered the entire continent thanks to an infectious rhythm, captivating guitar sounds and smooth vocals.
29 January 2004
A group of children, fleeing the war, is taken to Luanda accompanied by a nun. When they reach the aeroplane, 12-year-old N'Dala decides to leave the group and to reconnoitre the city.
01 January 1972
Abraham is a young sculptor who does not quite understand the changing world in which he lives. During a visit to the village, he falls for the youngest wife of his uncle.
16 April 1976
An American musician working in Nigeria becomes involved with a patriot hunted by a mercenary in Africa.
07 December 2005
The film is a sub-story to Kirikou and the Sorceress rather than a straight sequel. The movie is set while Kirikou is still a child and Karaba is still a sorceress.
04 September 2002
Filmmakers from all over the world provide short films – each of which is eleven minutes, nine seconds, and one frame of film in length – that offer differing perspectives on the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
01 December 2004
Nino Ferrer has had several lives: hits that made him famous; a dark but artistically fruitful period; a hidden life -of his own making- breaking away from showbiz.
02 January 1994
When a man's best friend is shot in cold blood by two corrupt policemen, he must track down the only eyewitnesses, who have deported to Mali.
03 June 2019
How African artists have spread African culture all over the world, especially music, since the harsh years of decolonization, trying to offer a nicer portrait of this amazing continent, historically known for tragic subjects, such as slavery, famine, war and political chaos.
04 January 2004
A dwarf born into an intolerant village meets a farmer who teaches her about love, friendship and sacrifice.
01 June 1977
The Ceddo people try to preserve their traditional African culture against the onslaught of Islam, Christianity, and the slave trade.
01 January 1992
A rare documentary made in Brussels in the early nineties collecting witnesses on how local and Congolese musicians enriched each other including internationally known stars such as Manu Dibango, Toots Tielemans, Vaya Con Dios, Phillippe Catherine, Victor Laszlo, Zap Mama.
18 August 1976
The Fania All Stars perform for 44,000 fans at Yankee stadium in New York. Besides concert footage, there's also included a history of Salsa, and vintage film clips of Hollywood's portrayal of Latinos in movies during the 1930's and 40's.
01 January 2003
A film about the difficulty for even the most well-intentioned person to know and respect another culture.
26 June 2002
Vita, a young and beautiful African woman learns that finding love and happiness need not come at the sacrifice of one's identity.