Sometimes in April

Seven short films - each one focused on the plight of a different child protagonist.

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The African Tale

1963

A USSR animated short adapted from one of Jomo Kenyatta's fables.

The Big Red One

1980

A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the w...

6.7

The Man Who Returned from the Heat

1972

Loukas has been living in Africa for many many years, working hard to send money to his family who has stayed in Greece....

5.4

Orphans of Ebola

Ben Steele’s ORPHANS OF EBOLA follows Abu, a 12-year-old boy from a Sierra Leone village, who loses eight members of his...

Ararat

2002

Interrogated by a customs officer, a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making of a film about the A...

6.1

The Settlers

2023

Chile, early 20th century. José Menéndez, a wealthy landowner, hires three horsemen to mark out the perimeter of his ext...

6.7

For Those Who Can Tell No Tales

2013

Kym, an Australian tourist, decides to travel to Bosnia. Her guidebook leads her to Višegrad, a small town steeped in hi...

4.5

Mangi Meli Remains

2020

In Old Moshi, Tanzania, a head is missing : the skull of Chief Meli, who fought the German colonial occupation of his te...

Leroy

2007

A gently humorous look at otherness and xenophobia in modern day German with this tale of a black Berlin teen named Lero...

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Maangamizi: The Ancient One

2001

An American woman doctor comes to Tanzania to work at a hospital for the mentally disturbed, with her Tanzanian lover. T...

6.0

The Resistance

2011

In 1937, Japan began their invasion of China by murdering over 300,000 people in the capital of Nanjing. The atrocitie...

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Man to Man

An epic about anthropologists who hunt and capture pygmies for study back in Europe, in an attempt to illustrate the lin...

6.2

The Passenger

1975

David Locke is a world-weary American journalist who has been sent to cover a conflict in northern Africa, but he makes...

7.2

The Lion King II: Simba's Pride

1998

The circle of life continues for Simba, now fully grown and in his rightful place as the king of Pride Rock. Simba and N...

6.9

Surviving Clotilda

TBD

In July 1860, the schooner Clotilda slipped quietly into the dark waters of Mobile, Ala., holding 110 Africans stolen fr...

The Bucket List

2007

Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers are worlds apart. At a crossroads in their...

7.2

Sahara

Seasoned adventurer and treasure hunter Dirk Pitt, a former Navy SEAL, sets out for the African desert with his wisecrac...

5.9

Citizen X

1995

Based on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over 50 people. His victims w...

7.2

K-19: The Widowmaker

2002

When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent...

6.5

Hard Boiled

1992

A cop who loses his partner in a shoot-out with gun smugglers goes on a mission to catch them. In order to get closer to...

7.5

The Quiet

After her widowed father dies, deaf teenager Dot moves in with her godparents, Olivia and Paul Deer. The Deers' daughter...

6.2

Hotel Rwanda

2004

Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a g...

7.7

The Platform 2

2024

After a mysterious leader imposes his law in a brutal system of vertical cells, a new arrival battles against a dubious...

5.5

The Hurt Locker

2008

During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his m...

7.3

The Call of the Wild

2020

Buck is a big-hearted dog whose blissful domestic life is turned upside down when he is suddenly uprooted from his Calif...

7.5

Memento

2000

Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife's killer, h...

8.2

Joker

2019

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City whil...

8.1

The Grand Budapest Hotel

2014

The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship w...

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Baby Driver

2017

After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to...

7.4

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Siblings Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter step through a magical wardrobe and find the land of Narnia. There, they discover...

7.1

Arrival

Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whet...

7.6

Blade Runner 2049

2017

Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that...

7.6

Venom: Let There Be Carnage

2021

After finding a host body in investigative reporter Eddie Brock, the alien symbiote must face a new enemy, Carnage, the...

6.8

Forrest Gump

1994

A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in eac...

8.5

Your Name.

High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. But one night, they suddenly switch places...

8.5

The Wailing