ArtMattan Productions.
1) The tracker
Publisher
ArtMattan Productions
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The Tracker is a compelling and visually striking morality tale that addresses Australia's troubled history with its indigenous Aboriginal population.
Publisher
ArtMattan Productions
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Español
Description
Two exciting, colorful films spotlight the African roots of Cuba's culture by focusing on two legendary artists in this unique set.
The last rumba of Papa Montero: "A film on the rhythmic dance genre known as rumba. ... dances around the life of Papa Montero, one of the famous rumberos of Cuba, assassinated during carnival ... The use of Afro-Cuban mythology is the force behind the characters as orishas guide [their] fate"--About the film (on the...
Publisher
distributed by ArtMattan Productions
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
Français
Description
"This animated film exquisitely recounts the tale of tiny Kirikou, born in an Africn village on which Karaba the Sorceress has placed a terrible curse. Kirikou sets out on a quest to free his village of the curse and find out the secret of why Karaba is so wicked"--Container.
4) The tracker
Publisher
ArtMattan Productions
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1922 in the outback, the story follows three mounted policemen and an Aboriginal tracker on a mission to bring to justice a black man accused of murdering a white woman. The party's leader is a sadistic racist known simply as the Fanatic. Their guide, the Tracker, is a resourceful and complex character, who keeps everyone guessing until the end. They are constantly half a day behind the Fugitive. Frustrations spill over as the tension mounts....
Pub. Date
2018
Language
Español
Description
"La Negrada" is the first Mexican feature film about the Afro-Mexican community, filmed entirely with people from different towns around the Costa Chica in Oaxaca. In Mexico, the afro communities represents only 1% of the total population. They have never been acknowledged as an ethnic group, nation or culture, suffering discrimination as an outcast group. "La Negrada" is the first Mexican fiction movie filmed entirely in one of those black communities,...
Series
Publisher
ArtMattan Productions
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Investigates the black Cuban exile community in South Florida, since the first wave of political refugees in the 1959 revolutionary aftermath, to today. It tracks its presence throughout the region, and highlights its contribution to Miami's civic culture through testimonies and visual documentation.
"The Invisible Color documentary investigates the black Cuban experience in United State and Miami Dade County in particular, since the first wave of...
Publisher
ArtMattan Productions
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Français
Description
Dancing the twist in Bamako (drama): a romance fraught with the drama of political change and infused with the musical energy of the 60s in Mali, only recently independent from French colonial rule. Samba, a young, idealistic socialist, works toward creating a more just nation by day and dances with girlfriend Lara to the Beach Boys, Otis Redding, and the Supremes by night.
The Mali Cuba connection (documentary): In the midst of the Cold War, ten...
Publisher
ArtMattan Productions
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Arabic
Description
A son (Un fils): Eleven-year-old Aziz needs a liver transplant after being seriously injured during a terrorist ambush while on holiday in 2011. At the hospital, a family secret will be revealed.
Wùlu: Ladji is the young man who, after losing his job on the cross-border taxis, takes up smuggling cocaine with lucrative if highly dangerous results.
Series
Great African films volume 3
Publisher
ArtMattan Productions
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Français
Description
Daratt: The government of Chad granted amnesty to war criminals in 2006, following forty years of civil strife. Atim, age 16, is given a revolver by his grandfather so that he may find and kill the man who killed his father. Atim quickly locates Nassara, now married and living as a baker in a nearby village. Pretending to be looking for work, Atim is hired as an apprentice baker. Despite his disgust, Atim gradually recognizes the father figure...
Publisher
ArtMattan Productions
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Language
English
Description
White Lies: "Paraiti is the healer and midwife of her rural, tribal people -- she believes in life. But new laws in force are prohibiting unlicensed healers, making the practice of much Maori medicine illegal. She gets approached by Maraea, the servant of a wealthy woman, Rebecca, who seeks her knowledge and assistance in order to hide a secret which could destroy Rebecca's position in European settler society."--Container
White like the Moon: "A...
Publisher
ArtMattan Productions
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
Masai
Description
Faced with a dangerous drought, Masai elders are convinced that they have been cursed by the Red God - the God of Vengeance. Following the death of the war chief, a group of adolescents band together to form a new generation of inexperienced but brave warriors, forcing them into adulthood. The young men must return with the mane of the legendary lion to appease the wrath of the Red God and bring back the rains. The survival of their culture depends...
Series
Great African films volume 1
Publisher
ArtMattan Productions
Pub. Date
[2007?]
Language
Songhai
Description
Faraw!: An impoverished Songhai mother struggles to provide for her family in northeastern Mali.
Haramuya: The patriarch of a Muslim family living in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso struggles to reconcile his traditional beliefs with his sons' thoroughly modern lifestyles.
Publisher
ArtMattan Productions
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Français
Description
Tasuma: The story of Sogo Sanou, aka Tasuma, a former French soldier who was a member of the African troops known as the Tiralleurs Senegalais, which fought hard for France. Sanou has been trying for over 50 years to obtain his well-deserved military pension. Convinced he will receive the money, he buys a mill on credit for the village. When the money does not arrive, Sanou is put in prison. The women of the village rally to set him free.
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