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In the Rumbling Belly of Motherland

Filmed as the U.S. planned for its September 2021 withdrawal of troops, IN THE RUMBLING BELLY OF MOTHERLAND documents an inspiring female-led news agency in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Women Make Movies | 2021 | 83 minutes | Relevance score: 34.42

My Motherland

Based on the director's life, a well-to-do widow living in Paris takes an Afghan refugee into her home. Starring Fanny Ardant, Nawid Elham, and Pierre Deladonchamps.

Distrib Films | 2025 | 91 minutes | Relevance score: 29.32

Three Songs about Motherland

A film about collisions between the past, present, and future in three Russian cities today.

Icarus Films | 2009 | 39 minutes | Relevance score: 24.48

Motherland

In 2020, Belarus’s military practice of violent bullying, torture, and murder of conscripts as a means of control becomes a flash point for a growingly dissatisfied populace.

Lightdox | 2023 | 92 minutes | Relevance score: 19.65

Berlin 1885: The Division of Africa

The story of the first international conference on Africa, which established its division amongst the European powers, and created Congo as a personal possession of the Belgian king.

Icarus Films | 2010 | 84 minutes | Relevance score: 12.74

Out in South Africa

OUT IN SOUTH AFRICA follows Barbara Hammer's journey to South Africa in 1994, where she presented a retrospective of her films at the first gay and lesbian film festival on the continent.

Women Make Movies | 1995 | 51 minutes | Relevance score: 12.47

Black Africa White Marble

Through the conflict over raising a monument to honor the Italian explorer Petro di Brazza, BLACK AFRICA WHITE MARBLE shines a harsh light on central Africa's colonial past and troubled present.

Icarus Films | 2010 | 86 minutes | Relevance score: 11.94

South Africa Belongs to Us

Aided by two black women journalists, the filmmakers visited workers' barracks, a family planning clinic in Soweto, and a shantytown to create the first and most stirring record of black women's lives in South Africa under apartheid.

Icarus Films | 1980 | 57 minutes | Relevance score: 11.67

Barber Shop - Ep 6: Pretoria West / South Africa

South Africa has known a turbulent history of occupation, discrimination and violence against the black population. The white middle class is slowly slipping away into poverty, resulting in violence, excessive drugs and alcohol abuse.

First Hand Films | 2017 | 26 minutes | Relevance score: 11.41

Fonko - Episode 1: South Africa + Nigeria

The great music revolutions of our times have come from Africa, and the next one is brewing there right now.

First Hand Films | 2014 | 52 minutes | Relevance score: 11.14