Bassek Ba Kobhio

The ghost of the great Guinean leader Sekou Touré hovers fondly over this Cameroonian film. Through a warmly human story, the film debates the continent's great development question of whether rural self-sufficiency is better than a Western-style technocratic approach. (YT)

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), the mission doctor, theologian and philosopher who founded a hospital in the rainforests of Gabon, achieved sainthood in his lifetime, at least in the popular imagination. The critical assessment of his life and works in recent years, however, has been slightly more ambivalent. Ba Kobhio Bassek is the first director to examine this medical missionary from a purely African point-of-view. (themoviedb)