Africa F.O.B.

Modern Inventions

May 1937 •English

Donald Duck goes to a museum of modern inventions. After getting in without paying, he meets a robot butler who takes Donald's hat every time he sees him. Donald is very annoyed by this and magically fixes himself a new hat every time this happens and strolls on. Ignoring the sign not to touch it, Donald starts playing with a wrapping machine and ends up being wrapped himself. He also encounters and tries out a robot nursemaid and a fully automatic barber chair. They both don't do him much good.

Mammy

March 1930 •English

Mammy features Al Jolson as the star of a travelling minstrel show, appearing in cities and towns across the U.S. Jolson falls in love with an actress in the troupe (Lois Moran), but she loves another (Lowell Sherman). Sherman is shot onstage as part of a comedy bit, and it is assumed that Jolson is guilty of putting the bullet in the gun.

Wonder Bar

March 1934 •English

Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane, she kills him.

Minstrel Man

January 1944 •English

Unusually elaborate for a PRC film, Minstrel Man is a lively musical drama built around the talents of veteran vaudevillian Benny Fields. The star is cast as Dixie Boy Johnson, who rises from the ranks of minstrel shows to become a top Broadway attraction. On the opening night of his greatest stage triumph, Dixie Boy's wife dies in childbirth. Profoundly shaken, he walks out of the show, leaving the baby to be raised by his showbiz pals Mae and Lasses White (Gladys George, Roscoe Karns). The kid grows up to be an attractive young woman named Caroline (Judy Clark), who follows in her dad's footsteps by billing herself as-that's right-Dixie Girl Johnson. This leads to a tearful reunion between Caroline and the father she'd long assumed to be dead. If Minstrel Man seems at times to be a dress rehearsal for Columbia's The Jolson Story (1946), it shouldn't surprising: the PRC film was directed by Joseph H. Lewis, who went on to helm Jolson Story's musical highlights.

David Harewood on Blackface

July 2023 •English

At its peak, The Black and White Minstrel Show was watched by a Saturday night audience of more than 20 million people. David Harewood goes on a mission to understand the roots of this strange, intensely problematic cultural form: where did the show come from, and what made it popular for so long? With the help of historians, actors and musicians, David uncovers how, at its core, blackface minstrelsy was simply an attempt to make racism into an art form - and can be traced back to a name and a date.

父、ノブナガ

October 2017 •Japanese

Reel Love

November 2024 •English

A bickering couple's cinema date takes a surreal turn as their argument is echoed on the silver screen.

Hotspot - Amore senza rete

October 2023 •Italian

Flights

January 2008 •English

An old man makes his way up a flight of stairs, only to do the unexpected.

Rajapandi

September 1994 •Tamil

To save his mother from a death sentence, Pandi kidnaps daughters of some high-profile people in society and demands his mother's release. He claims that she has been wrongly framed.

Space Travel According to John

January 2008 •English

In this soap-powder animation, ten-year-old John theorises on the miracle of space travel and speculates as to what the future might have in store.

It's Not You, It's Me

March 2021 •English

When Jason finds out his marriage may be falling apart before it starts, he sets out on a journey to find out what kind of a boyfriend he's been from his ex's.

CamKev Comedy & Songs

April 2021 •French

Camille Lellouche and Kev Adams are hosting a live special with some of their comedians and musicians friends.

the Occasion

October 2025 •English

Jack Jarlsberg is a guest to one of the most awkward dinner parties of his life. Invited by his mute friend Boots, Jack explores the stranger parts of the apartment with emphatic glee. Peter Alfred Runsible, the uninvited guest, is on a quest to retrieve all of his belongings after a frustrating breakup with the long standing tenant Shelby Denehee. Her girlfriend Bonnie Watt has made a feast for the eyes and guts of all these broken people. Boots, quiet for his own reasons, takes notes on every little thing that could unlock the mysteries of the Apartment. Shelby would love more than anything for everyone to leave. Together they take an anxiety ridden journey into the human psyche thru bread crumbs, peanuts, and otherworldly delights.

Mr. Censor

September 2020 •Persian

An author who couldn't get his book printed due to censorship, gets an opportunity to write a bestseller after a chance meeting.

The Legend of the Christmas Witch: The Origins

December 2021 •Italian

18th century. Paola, a young, reckless street urchin inadvertently gets in the way of the plans of terrifying Baron De Michelis, a small and mean hunchback always escorted by his trusted (and abused) minion Marmotta, with an unquenchable thirst for power and an unmeasurable hate for witches. The intervention of the sweet and powerful Dolores, a good witch who has devoted her life to children, saves Paola from being burned at the stake. Through a magical apprenticeship, breakneck pursuits, incredible transformations and a whole lot of trouble, Paola will discover that fate has something really special in store for her… And so the legend begins.

El bulín

June 1969 •Spanish

Employees of an office use for love dating the apartment of a single co-worker.