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Get a Life

Michael Klint, 2004

In this "dogumentary" two film makers meet the true face of poverty in the developing countries. The film takes place in a remote children's hospital in the northern part of Nigeria (in and around the provincial town Sokoto). It delivers a provocative and raw picture of the lethal, unknown hungers-disease Noma, and at the same time puts our view on the problems in the Third World into perspective.

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On-line med forfædrene

Helle Toft Jensen, Prudence Uriri, 2001

Do you believe in God or ancestral spirits? Would you agree to pay a bridal price - in the form of cellular phones or money? Would you follow your heart or do what your family expects of you? Are you the maker of your own fortune or your relations to other people? These are some of the many questions that occupy the two young lead characters, Jimmy and Busi. They have been sent on a tour of Zimbabwe by Savannah Arts to research and gain inspiration for the group's next performance. Along the way they meet chiefs, traditional healers, gays, a spiritual medium and a dream interpreter.

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A guerra da aqua

Licînio Azevedo, 1996

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Gud gav hende en Mercedes-Benz

Katia Forbert Petersen, 1992

A different picture of Africa, not the begging and unhealthy one, but a manifold and optimistic one. In the market of the capital of Togo, Lomé, a group of women control the trade, some old, plump, black women, often illiterates, have known to make themselves respected and earn money. Mama Benz is a woman who controls the sale of the wonderful African textiles and always drives around in a large Mercedes-Benz.

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Under den samme himmel

Ditte Haarløv Johnsen, 2013

Every year thousands of Africans leave their families behind and risk their lives in hope of a better life. Ditte Haarløv Johnsen's new film "Days of Hope" brings us close to these people, providing an inside look at the struggles these emigrants face.

The film moves between the Mauritanian coastal town of Nouadhibou, a starting point for the often fatal journey to Europe; across Sicilian asylums for illegal boat refugees, where those that survive the crossing languish behind bars; and finally - the harsh reality of the streets of Copenhagen.

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Ambassadøren

Mads Brügger, 2011

What happens when a very white European man buys a diplomatic title which turns him into an African diplomat overnight - right in the middle of one of Central Africa's most failed nations? "The Ambassador" is a genre-breaking and tragic comedy about the bizarre and hidden world of African diplomacy, where gin and tonics flow on a daily basis and diamond hustlers and corrupt politicians roam free.

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A kind of paradise

Andreas Johnsen, 2011

"A country's cultural warriors are more important than its political warriors," says the world-famous Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. And it is Africa's cultural combatants, we are presented to in Andreas Johnsen's eighth film, 'A Kind of Paradise'. Besides Adichie we meet contemporary artists, poets and musicians of six very different African countries: Angola, South Africa, DR Congo, Ivory Coast, Tanzania and Nigeria, who each tell their personal stories.

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Negerliv i Negeria

Ernst I. Engskov, 1941

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Afrika i Aalborg

Mette Knudsen, 2002

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Masaier på vej

Morten Vest, Robin Schmidt, 2010

A poetic and provocative portrait of indigenous people in the modern world. We meet three Masai and discover how their territory is diminishing, and how the very foundations for their existence are beginning to crumble. We learn about their thoughts on divorce, global warming and development, the latter being as much a threat as a solution.

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Aida Souka

Mansour Sora Wade, 1992

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Den hemmelige smerte

Mette Knudsen, 2006