topic: Film

"The impact of art is not instantaneous. Art needs people who need art. There is a give and take. There's an exchange. If the society needs...

Long before Invisible Children’s Kony 2012 created a pop buzz around the Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony and his murderous Lord’s Resistance...

On September 12, 2005 a man in a wheel chair hijacked a plane traveling from Tolima to Bogota with two grenades hidden in his diaper...

These film reviews from the 19th New York African Film Festival were originally published on Africa is A Country . Black Africa, White...

There is a certain missed opportunity in America’s box-office obsession with The Hunger Games which, while being an entertaining movie in...

The release of Jarreth Merz’s riveting docudrama, An African Election (2011), is a timely and welcome portrayal of renewed hope in...

A Separation is a gripping family and legal drama written and directed by Asghar Farhadi that stands as one of the best films released in...

Kinyarwanda , a drama about the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and its aftermath, has won awards from film festivals, collected glowing quotes...