Moolaadé 2004    star_border 7.1
When a woman shelters a group of girls from suffering female genital mutilation, she starts a conflict that tears her village apart.

The Silence of the Forest 2003    star_border 6
A film about the difficulty for even the most well-intentioned person to know and respect another culture. In this case, the problem is so acute that there is even heated debate over what to call that 'other.' The subtitles in the film use the familiar word 'pygmies,' a relatively pejorative European term; the Bantu or villagers' expression for the same group, Babingas, carries similar negative connotations. These highly specialized, tropical rainforest hunter-gatherers should perhaps be called by their own ethnonym, Aka, MoAka (sing.) and BaAka (pl.)

Sango Malo 1990    star_border 5
Directed by Bassek Ba Kobhio.