Few things are as precious as birth. It is how we got here. It is how the next generation will get here. So when South African documentary maker Molatelo Mainetje…

Atanasio Cosme Nyusi, the Mozambican dancer, speaking in the documentary The Sound of Masks is very sure of his skill. And why wouldn’t the deeply charismatic man be? As he…

“In Ghana here, what makes a person weak is money. If you don’t have money, you won’t survive here.” Those are the first words spoken in The Money Stone, a…

The African belief that there is more to birth is evident in how parents name their children. For Esi, the protagonist in Blitz Bazuwale’s dreamy debut, The Burial of Kojo,…

According to one stat in the documentary Silent Forests, forest elephants in the Congo basin have declined by more than 60 percent over the past ten years. These animals are…

It’s not often you find documentary narrators comparing sugarcane field workers to shea butter melting in the sun. Bikontine had purchased a pen and a notebook, and his words were…

The documentary has a fair share of longueurs—and in this way, even as it is different from the many roads it shows, this Luciana Kaplan work is very much like…

By the end of Dhalinyaro, three girls from Djibouti (played by Amina Mohamed Ali, Tousmo Mouhoumed Mohamed and Bilan Samir Moubus) would have gone through some universal and yet peculiar…

“Everybody who does this kind of butchering in the world is a Wahhabi,” says the voice. “It’s a fact.” At first the opening shot of the documentary Between God and…

“Angkar made the rules,” says the narrator. “Angkar had eyes everywhere.” The word “Angkar” is Khmer for The Organisation. And while narrating the documentary that has that word as its…