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The largest film festival in Africa is the biennial Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) held in Burkina Faso. In the tables below, "mixed" in the Details column, indicates that the festival screens films of different formats and genres (feature and short films, fiction and documentaries).
Year Title Director Genre Notes 1989: Red Scorpion: Joseph Zito: action adventure: 2007: Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation: Charles Burnett: drama: 2009: Rider without a Horse
Darkest Africa; David Livingstone (film) The Dead (2010 film) Death Drums Along the River; Desert Sands; The Desired Woman; Devil Goddess; The Dictator (2012 film) Dingaka; Disarmament Conference (film) The Dogs of War (film) Dough for the Do-Do; Dreaming (1944 British film) Drums of Africa
One of the first films to be entirely produced in Africa was the South African dramatic film The Great Kimberley Diamond Robbery (1911). [16] It was followed by De Voortrekkers (1916), South Africa's (and possibly Africa's) first epic film and oldest surviving film, about the Great Trek and targeted at an Afrikaner audience. [17]
Kalushi (2016) – South African biographical drama film about Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu, a nineteen-year-old hawker from the streets of Mamelodi, a township outside Pretoria in South Africa [97] Killing Reagan (2016) – biographical television film depicting John Hinkley's 1981 assassination attempt against U.S. president Ronald Reagan [ 98 ]
West Africa ... List of films based on actual events; List of films based on diaries* List of films based on non-fiction works;
I Dreamed of Africa (2000) – biographical drama film based on the autobiographical novel I Dreamed of Africa by Kuki Gallmann, an Italian writer who moved to Kenya and became involved in conservation [53] In His Life: The John Lennon Story (2000) – biographical television film about John Lennon's teenage years [54]
Pens en pootjies (in Afrikaans) and other South African films. This is a chronology of major films produced in South Africa or by the South African film industry.There may be an overlap, particularly between South African and foreign films which are sometimes co-produced; the list should attempt to document films which are either South African produced or strongly associated with South African ...