Discoveries from Liberia World Cinema

A cast of unknown performers are used in this drama about child soldiers fighting a war in an unnamed African country.

Pray the Devil Back to Hell chronicles the remarkable story of the Liberian women who came together to end a bloody civil war and bring peace to their shattered country.

Liberia, a nation burdened by its past. America, a nation with no memory at all." In Liberia, the summer of 2003 was pure insanity. A rebel army attempts to overthrow a government run by an indicted war criminal. Two armies engage in the final battle of a decade long civil war. Hundreds of innocent civilians die from mortar shells launched from afar and thousands more suffer hunger while the soldiers, mostly teenagers, keep the capital city under siege. The nation prays that America, the world's sole superpower, will put an end to the violence. Conceived in Washington in the early 1800s, its constitution written at Harvard, its founding fathers freed slaves who returned to Africa, Liberia is the one country in the world worthy of the title, Made in America. By the year 2000, Liberia, once considered the gem of Africa, was ranked last in the world for quality of life.

Nula, the only child of an estranged father, tries to encourage her mother to divorce but her mother is afraid of the mockery and stigma that comes with divorce within their society. As her father’s abuse of her mother worsens, Nula begins to lose hope. Will her mother overcome her fear to save Nula and herself?

At a resort, eight friends meet for a wedding. But when one friend "Angela" arrives who is pregnant for the groom "Carter" makes it her priority to jeopardize the wedding and turns it into her own wedding instead. The others are also victims of circumstances and face with the reality of infidelity.

Love and Drama

At a resort, eight friends meet for a wedding. But when one friend "Angela" arrives who is pregnant for the groom "Carter" makes it her priority to jeopardize the wedding and turns it into her own wedding instead. The others are also victims of circumstances and face with the reality of infidelity.

What will happen when a young beautiful and influential lady who hasn’t had a single marriage proposal, gets two from a celebrity and an Entrepreneur? Who will she marry owing to heavy pressure from her mother and three friends? Needing a man

An adopted daughter of a wealthy family puts up with her arrogant little sister while running the family business. As though the disrespect and insults from the little sister is not enough, she decides to make an unimaginable decision which the adopted sister finds unhealthy to the family business and will go to any extent to stop her arrogant little sister's outrageous plans for the company and the family.

Struggles of life

Two Liberian refugees leave the Buduburam camp in search of greener pastures but the modernization of Accra makes it difficult for them to cope. They get stranded and a Ghanaian decides to take them in his home after recognizing their ascent.He had lived in Liberia and worked there. his reward was to torment his daughter. A comedy that will make you laugh till you faint.

In Fokwele, Liberia, a town in transition to modern ways, conflicts arise because of differing life styles. Many old customs of the Kpelle tribe are still alive, but are complicated by new economic practices and social structures. Cattle divide the town into two classes: the rich cattle owners, and the poorer rice farmers, whose crops areoften marauded by the cattle and who in turn attack the cows. In this film, such an incident is followed through the proceedings of justice in the community.

Desperation for money and luxuries drive three friends to faking life and deceiving their victims into falling in love with them and milking their every cent. Then drama and betrayal follow that leads to disaster, crippling their relationship.

A retired Marine Corps and a computer genius plot an insurance fraud scheme with fatal consequences!

Two rich Liberian sisters clash over the decision of one of them to get romantically involved with a family servant. Meanwhile, the more arrogant sister finds herself held hostage by another family servant, who tries to teach her manners.

This film traces the journey of the late Japanese cinematographer Ryo Murakami to the Firestone Tire and Rubber Plantation in Liberia. Under the cover of night, he trespasses onto the plantation grounds and enters a scarcely seen world, where coercive living conditions and labor practices have changed alarmingly little since the plantation opened in 1926. Journalistic access to the plantation is tightly controlled and monitored by the company, and Ryo’s footage is a rare independent vision of the lives of plantation workers.

On his bachelor night, a highly influential legal counsel is caught up in a cloud of emotional thoughts, after he sees his Bestman in bed with his bride, a girl he loves so much and could do everything for.

A God fearing and praying mother is thrown out of her son’s house after being accused of being a witch by a renounce man of God. Will he succeed after his mother’s silence?

A Nurse desperate for a perfect romantic love life is caught in a love triangle. What happens when the man she chooses turns out to be her kidnapper?