ESSENTIAL AFRICAN FILMS

In tiers, 38 most essential first, in changeable order, the rest by year.

Not on Mubi: Katanga.

Great work by Blue K, manager of team Africa, semi finalists in our Auteurs/Mubi Film World Cup. And do see his superb list Songs of the Griot. Kuxa Kanema/The Africa Project has been building a tremendous collection of lists in a “Lost Continent” series, on South Africa, Mozambique, Cameroon, Tunisia..; a collection that is surely one of this site’s great treasures. And now a tremendous undertaking, in different parts, “The Africa Project”: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6. Kolar has...