Movies: Tanzania

  • 2015
    New Generation Queens: A Zanzibar Soccer Story

    New Generation Queens: A Zanzibar Soccer Story (2015)

    New Generation Queens: A Zanzibar Soccer Story

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    On an island where religion bars women from playing soccer, the Queens resist cultural norms and challenge local assumptions about Islam and gender identity. The film explores the history and character of the team, and the evolving perception of wome...

    New Generation Queens: A Zanzibar Soccer Story
  • 2017
    Sketches

    Sketches (2017)

    Sketches

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    A British artist misses his parents' wedding anniversary for a last-minute sketching commission in Cornwall, but memories of them affect his work along the way....

    Sketches
  • 2020
    Mangi Meli Remains

    Mangi Meli Remains (2020)

    Mangi Meli Remains

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    In Old Moshi, Tanzania, a head is missing : the skull of Chief Meli, who fought the German colonial occupation of his territory and was executed in response to his resistance in 1900. This animated film, based on archival sources and oral accounts pr...

    Mangi Meli Remains
  • 1969
    The Secret Life of Hippos

    The Secret Life of Hippos (1969)

    The Secret Life of Hippos

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    The secret life of hippos is revealed in this award-winning documentary, which follows divers into the waters of Tanzania's National Reserve. For the first time, cameras capture on film the astonishing underwater habits of these surprising creatures....

    The Secret Life of Hippos
  • 1998
    Serengeti Symphony

    Serengeti Symphony (1998)

    Serengeti Symphony

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    Serengeti Symphony is a breathtaking look at the astounding landscape and exotic animals that make up the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. The film accounts the daily lives and intricacies of animals such as giraffe, flamingos, leopards and cheet...

    Serengeti Symphony
  • 1969
    In the Shadow of the Serengeti

    In the Shadow of the Serengeti (1969)

    In the Shadow of the Serengeti

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    A Maasai human rights lawyer fights to stop the evictions of his people from their homelands in Tanzania. On the outskirts of Serengeti National Park in East Africa, Maasai face eviction from their land to make way for international tourism and hunt...

    In the Shadow of the Serengeti
  • 2009
    Mila Tu. Becoming a Massaï woman without mutilation

    Mila Tu. Becoming a Massaï woman without mutilation (2009)

    Mila Tu. Becoming a Massaï woman without mutilation

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    Evokes the personal trajectory of a Tanzanian Massai woman refusing genital mutilation. Directed by two NGO volunteers from Luxemburg working on a development project in Tanzania. Released in 2009, this film has been broadcasted since in various film...

    Mila Tu. Becoming a Massaï woman without mutilation
  • 2012
    White Black Boy

    White Black Boy (2012)

    White Black Boy

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    Shida is the new kid in class in a private boarding school in Tanzania. He is shy, he has no self-esteem, he does not speak one word of English - the primary language in the school, and he suffers from albinism. Like most children with albinism in th...

    White Black Boy
  • 2019
    Maasai Remix

    Maasai Remix (2019)

    Maasai Remix

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    Maasai Remix follows three Maasai individuals who—in the United Nations, a Tanzanian village, an American university—confront challenges to their community by drawing strength from local traditions, modifying them when necessary, and melding them wi...

    Maasai Remix
  • 2007
    Many Words for Modern

    Many Words for Modern (2007)

    Many Words for Modern

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    In 1950 architect Anthony B. Almeida was one of the first to introduce modern architecture in Tanzania. At that time architectural modernism was the preferred expression of the intended colonial welfare state. After Independence in 1961 Nyerere’s Afr...

    Many Words for Modern
  • 1969
    Kilimanjaro for Hope

    Kilimanjaro for Hope (1969)

    Kilimanjaro for Hope

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    Follow a group of novice hikers, including director Holly Stadtler, as they scale the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain, in an effort to raise money for sick children, including Hope, a baby born 12 weeks premature. As the climbe...

    Kilimanjaro for Hope
  • 2005
    Serengeti Stories

    Serengeti Stories (2005)

    Serengeti Stories

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    "Serengeti Stories: The Work of Hugo van Lawick" follows the famed wildlife filmmaker and includes clips of his masterpiece, "People of the Forest," about chimpanzees and their social relationships. Also: clips of "Wild Dogs of Africa" (1972), a hero...

    Serengeti Stories
  • 2022
    Homeboy Never Fails

    Homeboy Never Fails (2022)

    Homeboy Never Fails

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    Friends who like each other a lot and shared almost all of their secrets, sorrows and joyful moments are tested after one is a convicted to crime and a friend is the only one to either give the evidence for his friend's crime and stay safe from any d...

    Homeboy Never Fails
  • 2019
    Mwanza Youth

    Mwanza Youth (2019)

    Mwanza Youth

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    In partnership with the MasterCard Foundation and local partner Mwanza Youth and Children Network, the young reporters produce and broadcast radio shows that illustrate how farming can lead to individual prosperity and country-wide economic growth an...

    Mwanza Youth