Videos by Title: "D"

Dakan (1997)

Dakan is the first feature film on homosexuality from sub-Saharan Africa(Dakan is the first feature film on homosexuality from sub-Saharan Africa. (In French and Mandikan with Eng

Dance in Africa (1987)

This film, with English narration, includes dances from 13 African countries performed in the Dakar festival in April 1966.

Dance on the wind : memoirs of a Mississippi shaman (1994)

Eno Washington, an African American street and stage dancer, discusses the African roots of African American dance. Includes performance footage and archival footage.

Dark passages (1995)

Employes a mixture of interviews, slave narratives, and dramatization. Tells the story of the impact of the Atlantic slave trade. Takes the viewer from the House of Slaves on Goree Island off the coast of Dakar, Senegal, to the village of Juffere on the Gambia River.

The Debt of Dictators (2005). Director: Erling Borgen

Exposes the questionable lending of billions of dollars by multinational banks and international financial institutions to brutal dictators throughout the world and reveals the impoverishment resulting from the debts incurred to multinational lending institutions by these dictators. The film takes viewers to Argentina, South Africa, and the Philippines, where they come face to face with those suffering from the sacrifice of essential social services in order to repay these illegitimate debts.

Discovering the music of Africa Barr Films (1987)

Describes music and rhythms of Africa, especially Ghana, and how they are used both as music and means of communication.Demonstrates the complex rhythmical music of the bells, rattles and the drums; shows several traditional dances.

Dishes of Africa (1992)

Gourmet chef Jeff Smith tours the African cuisine.

Divine carcasse (1998) Director: Dominique Loreau

"Divine Carcasse is an unusual hybrid, a half fictional, half ethnographic film. It is a study in cultural contrast, between a desacralized, materialistic European view of reality and an animist, pre-industrial African one. Belgian director Dominique Loreau has described her film as an encounter with another culture, another way of relating to the world, objects and death, one that challenges our own relationships to the world"--From the California Newsreel Web site

Don't hurry back (1996)

An allegory of a Yoruba story of three heavenly travelers who experience life on earth three times, first in body, then in mind, and finally in spirit.

Dreams of the Good Life (2001). Director: Bridget Pickering

In Dreams of the good life, five South African women talk about life, love and how their dreams for the future have changed since they have found out they are HIV positive. The women now examine their relationships with men more openly than ever before.

Duara: Sound the Drum (c2002). Director: Richard Ndunguru

In Duara, two young adults, who are in love, face the consequences of opening their intimate circle. This film addresses issues of health, sexuality, HIV-AIDS, education, and young people in Africa.
Sound the Drum, a documentary student production, chronicles the birth of the TeleDrum collaborative filmmaking program and the coming together of two different cultures to make the film Duara in Tanzania, East Africa.