We encourage you to consider using films as a way to open conversations on critical issues focusing on Africa and the African diaspora as discussed in our D2D meetings.  Below are suggestions compiled by California Newsreel, that deal with a number of different themes such as gender, militarism, environment, trade and globalization, race & identity, migration and much more . 

From Women Make Movies

All are documentaries

COURTING JUSTICE - women justices in the new South Africa 

IRON LADIES OF LIBERIA - the president of Liberia and the women leaders around her 

SISTERS IN LAW - special women's court in Cameroon 

THE GREATEST SILENCE - women surviving sexual violence in eastern Congo 

From CA Newsreel

SWEET CRUDE  Oil from Niger Delta in Nigeria

BLACK GOLD -  documentary on fair trade coffee 

THOMAS SANKARA: THE UPRIGHT MAN - documentary biography of the assassinated Burkinabe leader 

AFRO @ DIGITAL - documentary on how the continent is becoming involved in the digital world 

EZRA - feature drama on a child soldiers in Sierra Leone 

ARLIT: DEUXIEME PARIS - documentary on a town in Niger after the French owned uranium mine is abandoned 

FEMMES AUX YEUX OUVERTS (WOMEN WITH OPEN EYES) - women activists in 4 West African countries  

THE HERO - feature drama on lives in post-war Luanda Angola

DARESALAM - feature drama on how ordinary people get involved in civil war in Chad

TWELVE DISCIPLES OF NELSON MANDELA - personal documentary on how Pan-Africanism plays out in one African American family (particularly relations with the South African liberation struggle)  

California Newsreel also submitted 2 documentaries for consideration with the USSF progressive film festival (see description of festival below). The films we submitted are

FAUBOURG TREME: THE UNTOLD STORY OF BLACK NEW ORLEANS - on the cultural and political history of an important neighborhood in New Orleans  

TRACES OF THE TRADE: A STORY FROM THE DEEP NORTH - on Northern involvement with the slave trade  

From New Yorker films

GUELWAAR - Ousmane Sembene's drama on an Senegalese activist who urged the rejection of "foreign aid"

BAMAKO - Drama putting international monetary institutions on trial