Africa

With destabilising gentleness, Mo Harawe recounts the last hours of the terrorist Farah before his execution.

A creeping, almost invisible toxic waste catastrophe is taking place on Somalia's coast.

This travel diary describes the journey of the painter Paul Klee in Egypt between 1928 and 1929 through his letters and his paintings.

This film illuminates the poetic-mystical side of Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of the UN Blue Helmet missions Dag Hammarskjöld.

To pay for his children's education, Sierra Leonean farmer Alimamy is taking a gamble: he wants to sell the entire cassava harvest at the next market.

A European theater director wants to stage a play about revolution in Burkina Faso and gets caught up in a real revolution.

Documentary filmmaker Heinz Emigholz sketches a biography of the French architects and civil engineers Auguste and Gustave Perret and their buildings.

The Aït Seghrouchen, a nomadic people from the windswept Moroccan desert, brave sandstorms, watch livestock and the cell phone towers.

The second largest film industry in the world is called Nollywood and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.

In some of West Africa's traditional societies, mental illness and epilepsy are still seen as demonic possession.

At the age of 17, the Gambian woman Sadi fled from the genital mutilation. Through the Sahara, Libya and across the Mediterranean to Sicily.

Filmmaker Christine Moderbacher joins her father to help construct a school in Nigeria and examines her role as "foreign helper".

When the protagonist of her next film disappears, Angelika Levi decides investigate her protagonist's life.

The largely unknown story of the GDR contract workers from Namibia.

Filmmaker Melanie Gärtner looks closely at the fate of one family to illuminate the social structures that lead to flight and migration.

After the bloody genocide 20 years ago, Rwanda made a remarkable turnaround, which was primarily made possible by the country's women.

A personal documentary and biography about the history of a royal family in the unusual African country of Botswana.

Can good cause evil? This documentary investigates the effect of Swiss development assistance in Rwanda before the genocide against the Tutsi.

Over a hundred years ago, "Togoland", now the Republic of Togo and part of present-day Ghana, was a colonial possession of the German Empire.

Teenagers try to flee to Europe under life-threatening circumstances, hidden in trucks, where they become the hunted by the border authorities.

Naima, a doctor, Amina, a graduate, and Leila, a young student, are pursuing their individual routes to an independent life when their paths cross.