Specializing in Black Videos
837 Exposition Dallas , Texas 75226 (214)823-6030
FOREIGN FILMS
African and other foreign films about those of African origin have traditionally been inaccessible with limited distribution and screening opportunities in the U.S. African films, in particular have a different rhythmic, pacing and level of social consciousness, with film makers willing to take on contemporary and historic issues that effect modern African countries.
BLACK ORPHEUS - Considered one of the most beautiful films with wonderful pulsating music, this classic captures the excitement of carnival in a doomed love story. Portuguese w/English subtitles. 103min. $29.95
DARK CITY - Filmed in Zimbabwe, the violent relationship between those committed to the struggle against aparthiad and those that sell out is examined. 98min. $29.98
FACES OF WOMEN - This comedy explores the lives of two women trying to balance the demands of tradition with the modern world. 103min. $59.95
HYENAS -A comedy by Djibril Diop Mambety depicts the effects of greed on a small poor village. A rich woman scorned in the past wants revenge on the respected village merchant. . 113min. $79.95
JIT - Set in contemporary Zimbabwe, a great sound track of jit-jive backs a fun young man who is determined to win over a beauty guarded by her gangster man. He is hindered by a pesky ancestral spirit, with her own agenda. 92min. $24.95
QUARTIER MOZART - Told over a 48 hour time period, a young school girl enters the body of a young man, so that she can gain insight on the sexual politics of her neighborhood. Based on some Cameroonian folklore. 80min. $59.95
QUILOMBO - Based on fact, the film chronicles Palmares, a well know self governing community formed by African enslaved escapees. this community flourished for several decades under chief Zumba. Portuguese w/English subtitles 114 min. $59.98
TILAI- Directed by Idrissa Quedraogo, a young man has an affair with his ex-fiancee who is now his father's wife, in this story of murder, lust and betrayal. Burkino Fasso. Moore w/subtitles. 81min. $79.95
