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Come Back, Africa · 1959

South Africa

Aida · 2015

Morocco

Friday Market · 2018

EgyptArabic

In Broad Daylight · 2025

Egypt

Bronze · FESPACO 2011

The ideal guy · 2011

Hijack '93 · 2024

Hanami · 2025

Valley of a Thousand Hills · 2022

South Africa

El grito en los puños

2017

Kounandi · 2004

Burkina Faso

Shame Worse Than Death · 2016

EgyptArabic

The 5th String · 2011

MoroccoArabic

Zaineb Hates the Snow · 2016

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Chona, la puerca asesina · 1990

Le Clandestin · 1989

Algeria

Alien from L.A. · 1988

South Africa

Beauty and the Beast · 2005

South Africa

Omar & Salma · 2007

EgyptArabic

Yellow Fever · 2012

Kenya

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