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- Over the last 20 years, Africa has experienced some 15 devastating civil wars with over 20 million victims in death, injury or displacement. Yet the West has turned a blind eye. This documentary sheds light about the conflict and post conflict reconstruction in particular in West Africa , discussing issues such as child soldiers and the many damaged victims of war and how they have found support. Missionaries have played a vital role in the restoration and healing process of post war conflict. The documentary is narrated by the former Australian Rock Star Themi Adams, who once toured with the Rolling Stones and who now heads the Orthodox Mission in Sierra Leone. He talks about how his mission in particular is contributing to the recovery process.
- THE LANGUAGE YOU CRY IN tells an amazing scholarly detective story that searches for, and finds meaningful links between African Americans and their ancestral past. It bridges hundreds of years and thousands of miles from the Gullah people of present-day Georgia back to 18th century Sierra Leone. It recounts the even more remarkable saga of how African Americans have retained links with their African past through the horrors of the middle passage, slavery and segregation. The film dramatically demonstrates the contribution of contemporary scholarship to restoring what narrator Vertamae Grosvenor calls the "non-history" imposed on African Americans: "This is a story of memory, how the memory of a family was pieced together through a song with legendary powers to connect those who sang it with their roots."
- Afro-Cubans preserve ancestral traditions. A filmmaker traces roots to Sierra Leone, where villagers recognize lost kin's customs. A joyous festival reunites the long-separated family through shared cultural heritage.
- A poor boy befriends a girl from a rich family who disapprove their relationship.
- A documentary about the life of Solomon Juxon-Smith: a political refugee working in a New York supermarket, and the son of a forgotten West African leader.
- Fayia is a 16-year-old Liberian refugee living on his own in a United Nations camp set up in Sierra Leone. A child of the wars in both countries, he is a survivor, making a life for himself by harvesting palm wine from the jungle to sell in the nearby city. But he's also just a teenager, looking for love and answers to some of life's big questions. A hybrid film project developed, created in collaboration with, and featuring the people of Jimmi Bagbo Refugee Camp.
- Mr Ibu, a Nigerian heavyweight boxing champion goes to Sierra Leone to fight the Sierra Leone heavyweight boxing champion.
- Three young Africans set out to change their lives in the wake of civil war. A returnee from the US, a child soldier bound for Iraq and a diamond miner, they must rebuild their lives and answer the biggest question of all: how did their once peaceful country fall so far?
- Synopsis: A protective dad refuses to let a leader of a dangerous gang date his daughter. He goes all out to destroy their relationship to the extent of assaulting the gang leader any time he sees him. The gang leader does something that makes the protective dad repents and blessed their relationship.
- Set in the Kono District of Sierra Leone, this docu-choreopoem captures the beauty of Blackness through the lens of the youth coming of age amid a skin bleaching epidemic.
- A medical student test a pill he created to turn man to Zombie on his friend's niece because of his denial.
- A young man who survived the horrors of the Sierra Leonean civil war as a child and elevated himself through education has set on a journey to face his past and rebuild the country he once saw destroyed.
- Through the eyes of African filmmakers, an unforgettable portrait of Sierra Leone's heroes as they confront Ebola during the most acute public health emergency of modern times.
- In Freetown, Elder Ballu hears the news that the 400-year-old majestic Cotton Tree has fallen. Standing at the foot of what's left, he remembers the histories of the ancestors who crossed the Atlantic back to Africa to find freedom.
- Shado'man is a cinematic journey undertaken by the filmmaker together with the street boys. The camera becomes a nucleus around which their life unfolds, unlocking a space for previously unshared pains, dreams and aspirations. The film delves into the inner world of each character to reveal the dignity of humans surviving under inhumane conditions.
- Juliana, a successful young woman, strives to find love and acceptance in the face of adversity.
- 12 months since the end of the largest Ebola outbreak in history and local heroes that played key roles in bringing the outbreak to an end, like gravedigger James Hamilton, seem long forgotten.
- They grew up together until life tore them apart. Years later one is making money but from a gangster lifestyle and the other struggles on the streets. Fate brings them back together but at what cost?
- Desperate to escape her circumstances of cultural pressures and poverty, eighteen year old Salay is intent on getting an education and carving out her own path in life, and is willing to risk leaving behind everything she knows in her father's Sierra Leonean village. A visit from her long lost uncle provides her with the opportunity she's been waiting for when he offers her a place in his city home and access to a good education at his expense. With little knowledge of her uncle, a 'businessman' who deals in girl-child trafficking, a perfect opportunity may turn into a living nightmare. This is a coming-of-age story of one strong-willed teenager fighting for what she wants. But at what cost?
- A lady who was deceived by her female compatriot to travel to Lebanon for a job, and got abducted by a police officer in DRC who uses her as sex slave.
- The Kono Project is an original docu-series that gives voice to a group of children living in the diamond mine region of Kono, Sierra Leone as they embark on a series of social, educational, familial and personal challenges.
- A docuseries with a clear and direct focus on African business, travel and culture. The Vickie Remoe Show entered its sixth season in 2020 with a sixteen part season on a quest to Make Sierra Leone Famous. Viewers join host Vickie Remoe as she journeys to each district to explore Sierra Leone.
- Kids from Brooklyn, NY housing projects try to change the world when they are paired with Sierra Leonean pen pals orphaned by a civil war.
- A devoted yet timorous and hard working single mother is haunted by the memory of her inaction many years ago that resulted in the rape of her young daughter. Unforgiving, her coming of age daughter, Fatmata, rebels with disobedience and seeks love in the arms of a classmate. Fatmata decides to spend the night with her new lover only to wake up to the horror of nearly being raped. Fatmata escapes into the loving protection of her mother as she ultimately learns that love often has it's price but her mother's love is free.
- In Moving to the Beat, an African American hip-hop group journeys to Freetown, Sierra Leone to discover a spiritual homeland and resurrect Chuck D's notion of hip-hop as the "black CNN." Going against the stereotypes of mainstream rap music, the documentary creates a dialogue between Black youth in Africa and America on war, sexuality, and gender, and portrays their visions of what it means to be a non-violent rebel. As each group confronts romanticized images of the other, whether of Africa or America, the result is a deeply forged connection and a commitment to ongoing struggle through hip-hop.
- Fourah Bay College is Sierra Leone's most prestigious university, situated on Mount Aureol and overlooking the national capital, Freetown. The university, like the country at large, is still recovering from the devastating civil war of the 1990s. This film explores the bitter and sometimes violent political divide that has taken hold amongst the current generation of students, all of whom grew up during the war, and the role of national politicians down in Freetown in fomenting this rivalry. These students are held up as the country's future: but what kind of future will it be?