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The following is a list of African films. It is arranged alphabetically by country of origin. Algeria ... Women in Lesotho 1991; Libya. Year Title Director Genre Notes
The Woman King is a 2022 American historical action-adventure film about the Agojie, the all-female warrior unit that protected the West African kingdom of Dahomey during the 17th to 19th centuries. Set in the 1820s, the film stars Viola Davis as a general who trains the next generation of warriors to fight their enemies.
Per Harrow, African women filmmakers became prolific during the 1980s and 1990s, "finally providing us with something more significant than Sembene's images of long-oppressed wives or daughters" and that "Perhaps the best way to understand post-engagement cinema is as that of a cinema that has begun to turn in the direction of women as ...
Image credits: Heiminator #5. Dana Scully. Even caused an uptic of women in STEM studies. Caira_Ru: I’m very biased, because I was at a pretty critical age in my own development when Scully and ...
First African-American nominated for screenwriting, along with Lonne Elder III for Sounder nominated the same year for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay). First African-American woman nominated for screenwriting. First African-American woman nominated for Best Writing (Original Screenplay). 1989: Spike Lee: Do the Right Thing: Nominated
The Icelandic drama film features two women—a single Icelandic mother and an African political asylum seeker—whose lives intersect. [22] [23] [24] BlacKkKlansman: May 14, 2018: August 10, 2018: The American comedy-drama film, set in the early 1970s, features a black detective who infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan chapter in Colorado Springs. [21 ...
To date, Nnegest Likké is the first African American woman to write, direct and act in a full-length movie released by a major studio, Phat Girlz (2006) starring Jimmy Jean-Louis and Mo'Nique. For a much fuller accounting of the larger history of black women filmmakers, see Yvonne Welbon's 62-minute documentary Sisters in Cinema (2003).
Antebellum is a 2020 American black horror thriller film [3] [4] written and directed by Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz in their feature directorial debuts. The film stars Janelle Monáe, Eric Lange, Jena Malone, Jack Huston, Kiersey Clemons and Gabourey Sidibe, and follows a 21st-century African-American woman who wakes to find herself mysteriously in a Southern slave plantation from which ...