The first Hirde Dyama National Festival of Culture of the Republic of Guinea was held in March 1970 in the country's capital city of Conakry.
A filmic portrait of a family torn apart by the turmoil of world history between Germany, Mozambique and South Africa, at the center of which is the Afro-German mother Sarah.
Landing is the story of a young Afro-German woman who wakes up to discover that she is invisible... something she has always dreamed of being. Screened at the Berlinale in 2007.
This documentary was made during Walter Ulbricht's state visit to Egypt. Images of village life, students in schools and factories, and laborers at the Assuan Dam present the country's four-thousand-year history and the modern metropolis of Cairo.
Nangula Gideon and Nangula Cornelius, two Namibian women in their early twenties, spent their childhood together in exile in East Germany.
During the Namibian War of Independence, almost 500 Namibian children were relocated from 1979 onwards, from various refugee camps to the German Democratic Republic (GDR).
Twenty-five-year-old electrician Thomas Taenzer tries to escape his failed marriage, unfinished college degree, and the confines of everyday life by taking a job in the Algerian desert.
Every day on the beach at Coccatuttibana, Asina, a little girl from Africa, waits for the ship from Rostock. The young sailor Karli will be on it, and he has promised to bring her something special that does not exist in Africa.
This two-part documentary by Winfried Junge (Children of Golzow series) presents the changes in the country of Somalia following a revolution and the establishment of a socialist government.
An allegorical documentary about the workers of the world, whose common destinies and hopes for peace are symbolically united by the rivers that run through their respective lands.