The title, EKOBIO, comes from the Afro-Colombian writer, Manuel Zapata Olivella, who used the term to describe people of colour, without using words charged with connotations of colonial exclusion. Shot in the literal ruins of colonialism, this film is as much a reclamation as the word used as its initial inspiration.
The title, EKOBIO, comes from the Afro-Colombian writer, Manuel Zapata Olivella, who used the term to describe people of colour, without using words charged with connotations of colonial exclusion. Shot in the literal ruins of colonialism, this film is as much a reclamation as the word used as its initial inspiration.
Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their Uganda home, twentysomething Mina finds herself co-operating a motel in the faraway land of Mississippi. Her passionate romance with charming Black carpet cleaner Demetrius challenges the prejudices of their conservative families and exposes the rifts between the region's Indian and African-American communities.
In an English village, a reporter and a mechanic listen to a ratcatcher explain his clever plan to outwit his prey.
Disgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, Thao Lor, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: a 1972 Gran Torino.
Nine filmmakers each profile a young girl from a different part of the world to weave a global tapestry of youth in the 21st century.
England, 1763. After being convicted of a crime, the young and beautiful Abigail Hale agrees, to escape the gallows, to serve fourteen years as a slave in the colony of Virginia, whose inhabitants begin to hear and fear the sinister song of the threatening drums of war that resound in the wild Ohio valley.
The true story of a brilliant but politically radical debate team coach who uses the power of words to transform a group of underdog African-American college students into a historical powerhouse that took on the Harvard elite.
Spain, 2003. An accidental discovery leads Clarence to travel from the snowy mountains of Huesca to Equatorial Guinea, to visit the land where her father Jacobo and her uncle Kilian spent most of their youth, the island of Fernando Poo.
Marlon Riggs, with assistance from other gay Black men, especially poet Essex Hemphill, celebrates Black men loving Black men as a revolutionary act. The film intercuts footage of Hemphill reciting his poetry, Riggs telling the story of his growing up, scenes of men in social intercourse and dance, and various comic riffs, including a visit to the "Institute of Snap!thology," where men take lessons in how to snap their fingers: the sling snap, the point snap, the diva snap.
A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.
The inspiring true story of Richard Montañez, the Frito Lay janitor who channeled his Mexican American heritage and upbringing to turn the iconic Flamin' Hot Cheetos into a snack that disrupted the food industry and became a global pop culture phenomenon.