Synopsis
From Focus Features comes Africa First: Volume One, a joyous collection of innovative and original short films from around the African continent. This anthology comprises four films: The Abyss Boys (Jan-Hendrik Beetge), The Tunnel (Jenna Cato Bass), St. Louis Blues (Dyana Gaye) and Pumzi (Wanuri Kahiu).
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Home

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles with family problems and has his friendships tested by racism.
Babylon

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Brotherly Love

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The Girl in the Book

Two kids, Dylan and Kylie, run away from home on Christmas Day and spend a night of magic and terror on the streets of inner-city Dublin.
Kisses

A man struggles with the tragic memories of his past to make sense of his present, but soon realizes that time isn't the enemy he thinks it is.
I'm Not Here

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.
Hardball

During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
A Dry White Season

A 21-year-old reformed gangster's devotion to his family and his future is put to the test when he is released from prison and returns to his old stomping grounds in Watts, Los Angeles.
Imperial Dreams

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El Chicano

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Strange Weather

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
The Young One

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