Movies: Haile Gerima

  • 2013
    Venice 70: Future Reloaded

    Venice 70: Future Reloaded (2013)

    Venice 70: Future Reloaded

    5.22013HD

    Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema....

    Venice 70: Future Reloaded
  • 2008
    Teza

    Teza (2008)

    Teza

    7.62008HD

    The Ethiopian intellectual Anberber returns to his native country during the repressive totalitarian regime of Haile Mariam Mengistu and the recognition of his own displacement and powerlessness at the dissolution of his people's humanity and social ...

    Teza
  • 1975
    Harvest: 3,000 Years

    Harvest: 3,000 Years (1975)

    Harvest: 3,000 Years

    6.71975HD

    In this meditative film the everyday lives of poor Ethiopian peasants are shown using documentary as well as storytelling techniques, with its drama arising out of the timeless yet persistent issues of their lives....

    Harvest: 3,000 Years
  • 1993
    Sankofa

    Sankofa (1993)

    Sankofa

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    On a photo shoot in Ghana, an American model slips back in time, becomes enslaved on a plantation and bears witness to the agony of her ancestral past....

    Sankofa
  • 1979
    Bush Mama

    Bush Mama (1979)

    Bush Mama

    6.81979HD

    The story of Dorothy and her husband T.C. He is a discharged Vietnam veteran who thought he would return home to a "hero's welcome." Instead he is falsely arrested and imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. Her life revolves around the welfare offi...

    Bush Mama
  • 1982
    Ashes and Embers

    Ashes and Embers (1982)

    Ashes and Embers

    6.91982HD

    Ashes and Embers is an original screenplay by Haile Gerima, about a Vietnam veteran, who, several years after the war, is struggling to come to terms with his role in the war, and his role as a Black person in America. He survives by working odd jobs...

    Ashes and Embers
  • 1999
    Adwa

    Adwa (1999)

    Adwa

    6.51999HD

    In 1896, Ethiopia, an African nation, largely armed with spears and knives, defeats a well-equipped and organized Italian military bent on colonization....

    Adwa
  • 1969
    The Maroons

    The Maroons (1969)

    The Maroons

    01969HD

    A film about the Maroons—freed or escaped slaves that created their own communities during slavery. Both stories are examples of Gerima’s driving motivation—sankofa, reclaiming the past in order to move forward....

    The Maroons
  • 1971
    Hour Glass

    Hour Glass (1971)

    Hour Glass

    6.51971HD

    In the midst of the Black consciousness movement, a basketball player imagines his profession to that of a gladiator. After a series of reflections including his upbringing as a foster child of White Americans, he returns to his origins....

    Hour Glass
  • 1988
    Ouaga

    Ouaga (1988)

    Ouaga

    01988HD

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    Ouaga
  • 2017
    Footprints of Pan-Africanism

    Footprints of Pan-Africanism (2017)

    Footprints of Pan-Africanism

    82017HD

    In 1957, Ghana was the first African country to become independent of its colonial rulers, in this case the British. Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of what in 1960 became the Republic of Ghana, called on Africans from all over the world to come t...

    Footprints of Pan-Africanism
  • 1979
    Wilmington 10 -- U.S.A. 10,000

    Wilmington 10 -- U.S.A. 10,000 (1979)

    Wilmington 10 -- U.S.A. 10,000

    01979HD

    A documentary on the Wilmington 10, 9 afro-Americans and 1 white woman who were unjustly imprisoned. 4K digital restoration by the Academy Film Archive released in 2021....

    Wilmington 10 -- U.S.A. 10,000
  • 1973
    Child of Resistance

    Child of Resistance (1973)

    Child of Resistance

    01973HD

    A woman dressed in a robe, hands bound, is being transported through a barroom into a jail cell, directly outside of which later appears a jury box filled with jurors. Linearity is rejected as space is treated poetically, following the coordinates of...

    Child of Resistance
  • 1994
    Imperfect Journey

    Imperfect Journey (1994)

    Imperfect Journey

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    Haile Gerima and Ryszard Kapuscinski travel around Ethiopia talking to people about their current situations and what needs to be done for a prosperous country....

    Imperfect Journey