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Finding Sally · 2020

Ethiopia

Things of the Aimless Wanderer

2015

RwandaEnglish

Ghosts of Our Forest · 2017

Ashes and Embers · 1982

Ethiopia

Golden Dhow · ZIFF 1998

Maangamizi: The Ancient One

Father's Day · 2022

Waterschool · 2018

We Are All Rwandans · 2008

Rwanda

Once Upon a Time in Uganda · 2023

Barni · 2025

Love Faces · 2016

Pumzi · 2009

Poacher · 2018

Price of Love · 2015

Phiona, a girl from Madrid · 2025

RwandaKinyarwanda

Boran Herdsmen · 1974

The Parching Winds of Somalia

1984

SomaliaEnglish

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