Pride goes before a fall, they say, and this robust Nigerian comedy looks at how that happens to a pompous rural schoolteacher.

Tshepang is 15 and lives with her siblings of eight and five. When her grandmother dies they discover that the old woman’s last lotto ticket has hit the jackpot for millions.

Family values. Generational divides. Lost opportunities, different choices - that’s what confronts the elderly barber Amaduo, a generally good-natured retired military man whose business has run into hard times. Troubled by his dependence on his fish-seller wife Stella, Amaduo decides that it’s time for a change and travels into the city, hoping to learn some new tricks of the trade!

Adapted from a short story by Alan Paton, the celebrated South African writer who gave the world Cry, The Beloved Country, this short film is a stark reminder of the inhumanity and indignities of apartheid.

In this forthright Nigerian film about the effects of AIDS, the terrible personal toll that the illness takes is poignantly portrayed. Significantly, the film is robustly optimistic, despite its subject. When Tokunbo, a handsome and successful young man, tests HIV-positive, his world turns upside down.

Medical ethics and tradition clash in this drama fraught with questions of moral principle. Mr Adams lies dying in hospital; his only hope is a heart transplant.

Aremu and Adenike are forbidden lovers in early century Yoruba kingdom with an imminently fatal future. Aremu is an Ab’obaku – a commitment of great honour and of an unusual demand: he is one of 5 courtiers in the palace who must be buried alive upon the King’s death, supposedly to escort the King in his journey to the afterlife.

Tanja, an up and coming fashion photographer is frustrated by her car breaking down on the highway on the way to a shoot. She is rescued by a kindly black taxi driver, Samuel who takes to her appointment and befriends her in the ensuing days.

A soothing film about African sexuality and traditional ‘devices’ of African women to seduce their men When beautiful Fanta, who only wears Western clothes, realizes that her husband only has eyes for traditional Senegalese women, she is advised to go and talk to the titular Aida.

Young director Dumisani Phakathi first made his mark with this multiple award winning film, which took prizes for best director, actor, actress, supporting actress and script at South Africa’s NTVA Avanti Awards.

Angel tells a gritty tale that is deliberately at odds with its achingly beautiful setting, South Africa’s Cape Peninsula. In this tourist wonderland of table-shaped mountains, sea, sun and sand, live two homeless people – bergies in the local slang.