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- When Lena and Ulli start the engine of their old Land Rover, Lady Terés, they have a plan: to drive from Hamburg to South Africa in six months. What they don't know yet is that they won't ever get there. Two totally different characters, jammed together in two square meters of space for almost two years, they experience what it really means to travel: leaving your comfort zone for good. Starting in Morocco, they quickly dive into the life of locals they meet on the road: Jamal, a Moroccan Berber who lives with his dromedaries in the Sahara, Ziza, a Mauritanian musician who fights against suppression from the government, Mame Sy, a mother who set up a private school for the poorest of the poor in Mauritania - and many more. Their journey leads them through the vibrant green canyons of Guinea, the scorching heat of Mali, and the amazing surf of Sierra Leone and Liberia. Everywhere they are, the two Germans make contact with the locals and demonstrate that real travelling is about more than plain sightseeing. But their long journey doesn't spare them the dark side of travelling: they are also confronted by corruption, sickness and even death. Setting out to discover a continent, their trip leads them down a very different road. One they did not expect: the journey to their true inner selves.
- A film crew follows the well-known banjo player Bela Fleck on his travels to Africa, where he learns about the instrument's origins.
- The Mirror Boy is a mystical journey through Africa, seen through the eyes of a 12 year old boy, Tijan. After a London street fight, in which a local boy is hurt, Tijan's mother decides to take him back to their roots, to Gambia. On their arrival in Banjul, Tijan encounters a strange apparition, a boy smiling at him in a mirror and vanishing. Seeing the same boy in a crowded street market the next day sets in motion a chain of events, with Tijan finding himself lost. While Tijan's panic-stricken mother struggles to find her son, Tijan is left alone in the company of the enigmatic Mirror Boy, seemingly only visible to him. After a bruising spiritual rite of passage, The Mirror Boy takes Tijan on a mystical journey, but not all is what it seems.
- Mike has invented a machine to get into movies currently running on his video tape recorder.
- Crime, drugs, HIV/AIDS, poor education, inferiority complex, low expectation, poverty, corruption, poor health, and underdevelopment plagues people of African descent globally - Why? 500 years later from the onset of Slavery and subsequent Colonialism, Africans are still struggling for basic freedom-Why? Filmed in five continents, and over twenty countries, 500 Years Later engages the authentic retrospective voice, told from the African vantage-point of those whom history has sought to silence by examining the collective atrocities that uprooted Africans from their culture and homeland. 500 Years Later is a timeless compelling journey, infused with the spirit and music of liberation that chronicles the struggle of a people who have fought and continue to fight for the most essential human right - freedom.
- A timely examination of human values and the health issues that affect us all, !Salud! looks at the curious case of Cuba, a cash-strapped country with what the BBC calls 'one of the world's best health systems.' From the shores of Africa to the Americas, !Salud! hits the road with some of the 28,000 Cuban health professionals serving in 68 countries, and explores the hearts and minds of international medical students in Cuba -- now numbering 30,000, including nearly 100 from the USA. Their stories plus testimony from experts around the world bring home the competing agendas that mark the battle for global health-and the complex realities confronting the movement to make health care everyone's birth right.
- An engaging journey through Gambia, Finland, and Italy, following the story of Essa, a former UN soldier and refugee, and his struggle to achieve well-being for himself and his African village.
- Kandia, an African women in her fifties who has lived in Sweden for 30 years, decides to move back to Gambia. Her son Ibbe, who dreams of a career in hip hop and is about to make a breakthrough, goes with her. Their encounter with their homeland, however, doesn't turn out the way they imagined. A warm, broad drama comedy about a universal theme: identity.
- A young economic migrant (Momodou) returns to the home country that he was illegally smuggled out of 2 years ago, following his deportation from the U.K. Battling with feelings of shame and acceptance, Momodou must come to terms with the stark reality of the sacrifice his family made in risking everything they had to fund his journey and the consequences of his return home.
- Former Big Brother 3 housemate Spencer Smith presents his own fishing show from locations as diverse as Canada, Poland, Norway and The Gambia.
- Our story our voice engages the diverse voices of the dis-empowered in a multi-cultural world that has no multi-culture voice. Beyond the mainstream media and politics of newspapers Our Story Our Voice offers a rare unbridled look into the voices of those who more often than not get marginalized. From nuclear weapons proliferation to the hypocrisy of western foreign policy, failure of plurality and democracy to the crisis in Darfur.
- Our documentary, It Takes a Village draws its name from the old African saying "it takes a village to raise a child". It is a wonderful story of people from different backgrounds, ignoring social and religious boundaries for the betterment of others. After the loss of their daughter Angela, British couple Hilary and Keith Walker, split their life in two so they could create a nursery to help educate Gambian children out of poverty. Between 2001 and 2013, living six months in the UK and the rest in the Gambia, Keith and Hilary created a unique charity project called Wonder Years Centre of Excellence (WYCE). That project is now coming of age, as in 2020, WYCE officially becomes a self-sustaining organisation. Starting from a single shared dream, Hilary and Keith Walker used every avenue to feed the growth of their education project - including selling their home in the UK. Robbed of their initial investment by a (failed project) in Tanji, the couple started again in the village of Madina Salam (The village of peace). For the next 13 years, the couple accompanied by their Gambian ally E.K. Sarr, survived opposition on two continents. In the Gambia, opposition from tribal leaders, death threats and a run in with President Jammeh's Secret Service (NIA) and in the UK constant power struggles over policies and money, with the charities trustees. Despite this their 'child' Wonder Years Centre of Excellence was built, and grew to be a school, clinic and village project which is known throughout the region. But the years of fighting on two fronts, living apart and the death of E.K. Sarr, led unsurprisingly to the couple's reluctant retirement in 2013. Keith's heart-attack and Hilary's nervous exhaustion meant they were unable to travel long distance, and so the couple knew they would never see their 'child' grow up, or visit their friends, again. However, a chance meeting in the Autumn of 2018 re-ignited their imagination and encouraged Hilary and Keith (now in their 70's) to risk traveling to Madina Salam to seek some emotional closure. That wish became the impulse for the making of the film. Despite the efforts of the charity to prevent their return, their welcome back in Madina Salam was something extraordinary to behold.
- 'SARATA' is about love and betrayal faced by young women as they seek to better their lives. She is an orphan, beautiful, well brought-up in the village. She's in love with Abdou and wants to marry him but will not have sex before marriage
- A documentary that captures the daily struggles of 15 youngsters moving within the informal economy of the Gambian tourism industry of sun, safari and sex. With the lure of a better future just around the corner, do they try their luck abroad or find their peace at home?
- Lalo, short for Latin Lover, the ultimate Latin lover, is an American guy from Los Angeles with this Latino accent. Lalo is a very special guy. He's got kinda a bipolar personality, and it'll take him less than a second to go from extremely nice to crazily mad for no reason. Lalo is a wealthy guy. He has anger problems. For this reason his doctor recommends him to keep busy and do something for others, help people somehow. That's why he decides to start a channel on Youtube to teach people how to be the perfect Latin lover. He's totally obsessed with a couple of things: women, the hate he feels towards his doctor and with his 2 sacred idols, Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek. His opinions are extreme but he will really try to be more open minded about what's different. He'll take you from teaching you how to be the best friend ever to how to be a British Prince who parties too much with booze and girls and not get caught. From Gambia (Africa) to Paris, from Madrid to Los Angeles. You just can't miss Lalo.
- The ten-piece afro-helvetic band "King Kora" starts a tour through Gambia, the home country of its kora player and singer Lamin Jobarteh. The band travels for nine days on a boat on the river "Gambia", stopping by at eight villages and cities along the shore to perform, and finally giving three large concerts at the coast. But what they find in this country does not always meet their expectations...
- Following a charity called Disability Africa, this documentary follows the lives of disabled children in The Gambia and how they are viewed within society.
- Hightech is a TV Show which focuses on technology through creation and edutainment. The show seeks to raise digital literacy, feature underdog talents and help people solve their everyday tech problems.
- Eve's apple is a documentary film reporting the barbarity of Female Genital Mutilation, showing how international agencies and private and public entities fight and look for alternative measures to end this reprehensible practice.