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1) Mali
Author
Series
Publisher
Cavendish Square
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Readers trace the ups, downs, successes, and struggles of the West African nation of Mali in this detailed guide that comprehensively covers the land itself and the people who call it home. Mali's unique culture is presented to readers through informative main text that's paired with helpful sidebars, colorful maps, and even recipes that encourage young people to make some of Mali's most beloved foods. The geography, arts, celebrations, and citizens...
Author
Publisher
[Black Sands Entertainment]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Diata, the descendant of a deposed king, makes his way from the Sahara to the great city of Timbuktu. Looking for a way to Mali's capital, Diata intends to enter a tournament whose winner is rumored to become the next general of the empire. While many seek the glory and nobility that comes with being Mali's general, Diata's only concern is avenging his late ancestor." -- Provided by publisher.
4) Mali Blues
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The West African country of Mali is a birthplace of the blues, a musical tradition later carried by the transatlantic slave trade to America's cotton fields. Yet today, the music and musicians of Mali are in grave danger. As fundamentalist Islam and sharia law become more widespread, dance and secular music are prohibited, musical instruments are destroyed, and musicians are forced to flee their homeland. The vibrant documentary MALI BLUES follows...
Author
Publisher
World Editions
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Born in Guadeloupe, Ivan and Ivana are twins with a bond so strong they become afraid of their feelings for one another. When their mother sends them off to live with their father in Mali they begin to grow apart, until, as young adults in Paris, Ivana's youthful altruism compels her to join the police academy, while Ivan, stunted by early experiences of rejection and exploitation, walks the path of radicalization. The twins, unable to live either...
6) Bamako
Publisher
Icarus Films
Language
Français
Formats
Description
An extraordinary trial is taking place in a residential courtyard in BAMAKO, the capital city of Mali. African citizens have taken proceedings against such international financial institutions as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), whom civil society blames for perpetuating Africa's debt crisis, at the heart of so many of the continent's woes. As numerous trial witnesses (schoolteachers, farmers, writers, etc.) air bracing indictments...
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge Teen
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Kadija is the music-loving daughter of a guardian of the library in the ancient city of Timbuktu, Ali is a former shepherd boy, trained by Islamist militants--and both are caught up in the war in Mali and on opposite sides of the stuggle to save the sacred Sufi manuscripts that the militants want to destroy.
9) Timbuktu
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Not too far from Timbuktu, now ruled by religious fundamentalists, Kidane lives peacefully in the dunes with his wife Satima, his daughter Tonya, and Issan, their shepherd. In town, the people suffer, powerless, from the regime of terror imposed by the Jihadists. Music, laughter, cigarettes, even soccer have been banned. The women have become shadows but resist with dignity. Every day, the new improvised courts issue tragic and absurd sentences. Kidane...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Zamiatou is the mother of two quarrelsome boys and a depressed teenage girl. She is also the wife of a man arrested for political reasons who returned from prison mentally and physically destroyed. She struggles hard to survive in a poor and desolate area. She is ready to face anything to keep the family alive except prostituting her beautiful daughter.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Bambara
Description
In Finzan, Cheick Oumar Sissoko has skillfully crafted a film which raises one of the most important issues of African rural life, the status of women, in a style accessible to every villager. Finzan tells the story of two women's rebellion. Nanyuma, a young widow defies her brother-in-law, the village fool, when he asserts his traditional right to "inherit" her. Fili, a young woman sent from the city by her conservative father, is brutally "circumcised"...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Bambara
Description
A gender-bending farce set among the cliff-dwelling 18th century Dogon people, makes serious points about the status of women in Africa. It shows how ancient mythology can still shed light on modern issues. Director Adama Drabo has devised a gender-bending farce set among the 18th Century Dogon to make some serious points about the status of women in Africa today. This proleptic tale about a comic revolution in which women's and men's roles are reversed...
14) Never forgotten
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
In eighteenth-century West Africa, a boy raised by his blacksmith father and the Mother Elements--Wind, Fire, Water, and Earth--is captured and taken to America as a slave.
15) Revival
Publisher
Premiere Digital
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A hybrid of every film idiom: Broadway musical, Hollywood musical, animation, green screen technology, and sound stage. REVIVAL is the hippest experience of The Gospel the world has yet seen.
16) Next Exit
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When a research scientist proves she can track people into the afterlife, two strangers harboring dark secrets race across the country to join the contentious study and leave their lives behind.
17) Next exit
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Two strangers agree to carpool across the country for the chance to participate in a controversial study about the afterlife once a scientist has conclusively proven she can follow people's continued existance after their physical presence has been terminated. Teddy thinks he'll be more successful while Rose just wants a way out, but both are leaving people behind and have secrets that eventually come out as they travel together.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Faith attempts to navigate the disillusion of her marriage, while taking on an emotionally wrenching legal medical case involving a gravely ill young boy. Into this mix, Faith is confronted by a terrible and long buried figure from her past: her mother.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The Indian Doctor is a heartwarming and award-winning British comedy series that originally aired on BBC One. It tells the classic fish out of water story of Prem Sharma, a highly educated Indian doctor, and Kamini, his beautiful upper-class wife, who, attracted by the promise of opportunities in the new National Health Service and a glamorous lifestyle in London, leave India in 1963 only to find themselves sent to a small practice in a Welsh coal-mining...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The Indian Doctor is a heartwarming and award-winning British comedy series that originally aired on BBC One. It tells the classic fish out of water story of Prem Sharma, a highly educated Indian doctor, and Kamini, his beautiful upper-class wife, who, attracted by the promise of opportunities in the new National Health Service and a glamorous lifestyle in London, leave India in 1963 only to find themselves sent to a small practice in a Welsh coal-mining...
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