Africa
This is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection is just more proof that the most exciting and impactful films being released today are coming out of Africa.
When it comes down to it, you’ve seen this type of movie before, but rarely with this setting and with people from this part of the world.
One of the first films from Sub-Saharan Africa to make waves on the international stage, Black Girl remains nothing less than masterful.
Beasts of No Nation made headlines before even a trailer dropped early in 2015. The Cary Fukunaga drama about child-soldiers in Africa was bought for $12 million by the streaming powerhouse Netflix. This meant that it would be the first time in history a potential Oscar-nominated film would be available online to Netflix subscribers the same day it would be released in theaters.