Genre Comedy (13)

Djibril Diop Mambéty's first film is eloquent proof that artistry trumps mere money every time. This low-budget short film is homage to the spirit of silent movies and is set against the backdrop of a bustling Dakar in the late 1960s.

Gito managed to leave Burundi for an education in France. As far as he is concerned, this makes him a superior specimen of humanity. All this likeable lad thinks he has to do now is to return to Burundi wearing his magnificently stylish clothes and sporting his very superior attitude (and accent), and the world will fall at his feet; careers will open up, and women will worship him.

The death of community leader and Catholic 'noble man' Guelwaar (Ndiaye) brings his family back to Senegal, but his funeral is delayed when his body goes missing. A mix-up has occurred, and it is soon discovered that the man has already been buried in a Muslim cemetery.

Loyalty and betrayal is strikingly explored in this poignant story of two friends Kini and Adams, who are inseparably bound by their mission to repair a wrecked car. They have a single goal: to escape their peri-rural existence to explore the wider world.

The announcement by the commander of a provincial capital in Senegal, of the impending arrival of the inspector general for people's affairs, causes somewhat of a flurry in this small Senegalese town.

Marigo the musician dreams of his instrument – a congoma – which his landlady has impounded because of his chronic rent non-pay-ments. Getting hold of a lottery ticket, he decides to put it in a safe place while awaiting the drawing.

This African comedy takes a sharp, satiric poke at one of the white colonialist's most sacred cows - the humanitarian work of Dr. Albert Schweitzer.

Two streetwise women are sent on a strange odyssey through a decaying society in this offbeat sci-fi comedy, set in a fictional African nation in the year 2025.

Sembene's second feature film unlocked for the first time the complex world of modern Africa. It is the story of a man who receives a money order and encounters an intimidating barrage of Third World bureaucracy when attempting to cash it.

Traditional beliefs say that the souls of the dead will not join their ancestors until the mourners cry at their graves. Max Bua, 19, from a South African farm community, has inherited his grandfather’s talent for mourning.

Set in the capital of Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou, this well-shot comedy feature concerns a group of unemployed boys who make do as best they can.

Pousse-Pousse is a comedy that tells the story of a scooter-driver who wants to marry Rose and buy a car. Pousse-Pousse ends up using all his savings to pay the traditional dowry to his demanding future father-in-law, Daddy Besséké.