Title: The African Woman
Content:  The African Woman (Die Rückkehr, L'africana, also known as The Woman from Africa) is a 1990 West German-Italian-French romance-drama film directed by Margarethe von Trotta. It was entered into the main competition at the 47th Venice International Film Festival.
Title: Africa Is a Woman's Name
Content:  Africa Is a Woman's Name is a 2009 documentary film by Kenyan film producer Wanjiru Kinyanjui. The film was shot by Transparent Productions and the Zimmedia production company and distributed by Women Make Movies (WMM). It was directed by Kinjanjui, Ingrid Sinclair and Bridget Pickering. It lasts a total of 88 minutes.
Title: Ingrid Sinclair
Content:  Africa is a Woman's Name is a trilogy of three dramas about of the lives of three women in three African countries directed by three African women. "Amai Rose, a Zimbabwean housewife and businesswoman, Phuti Ragophala, a dedicated school principal in one of South Africa’s poorest communities, and Njoki Ndung’u, a human rights attorney and member of Kenya’s parliament, tell their individual stories, reflecting upon their own achievements and failures as well as needed initiatives for women and children in their respective societies". The film was co-directed with Wanjiru Kinyanjui from Zimbabwe and Bridget Pickering from South Africa.
Title: Women in African cinema
Content:  Africans were limited in what roles they could take in film until the 1950s and 60s, when indigenous Africans began freeing themselves from colonial rule, however few women were given access to the creative process beyond acting. Director Safi Faye is credited as the first African woman to direct a film with the release of her 1975 film Kaddu Beykat, which film scholar N. Frank Ukadike has stated is indicative of wider struggles by black filmmakers in the African diaspora. Filmmaker and author Tsitsi Dangarembga has cited patriarchal biases in the film industry and African society as reasons, why African women in particular struggle as filmmakers. Scholar Nancy Schmidt has further noted 
Title: Women in African cinema
Content:  The representation of women in African cinema is seen as a common theme among women directors, such as Safi Faye and Sarah Maldoror. Historians have noted that women have made the bulk of the theme's research. Some films, such as Karmen Gei and U-Carmen eKhayelitsha feature female protagonists, but have been criticized as "[representing] a departure from the situation of the contemporary woman in Africa" as the films identify women with music and the voice. Riesco has noted that while these films portray the idealization of the feminine, they also "offer a vibrant alternative to the previous wave of cinema, largely characterized by the exaltation of the rural, of traditions and their recuperation, and of a specific kind of narration, slow and measured, based in oral conventions in which silence and speech were equally stressed."
Title: Martha Production
Content:  The project "AFRICAN WOMAN" was created by Martha Capello & Dinamo Italia (producers) and Stefano Scialotti (the director). The film is a road film through Senegal, a journey to support the nomination of African Women for the Nobel Peace Prize. Actually, they are the unquestioned protagonists of the documentary: strong, tireless, always available, ironic and joyful, in these years they have been playing a key role both in daily life and the social and political activities of the African Continent. The journey-reportage is filled with spontaneous interviews and it starts from the World Social Forum Dakar 2011, to arrive to Sendou, where 
Title: Africa Is a Woman's Name
Content:  The film stars three women, each of which tells their life stories: Amai Rose from Zimbabwe is a businesswoman and housewife, Phuti Ragophala is a South African school teacher and principal, and Njoki Ndung’u from Kenya is a politician, a member of Kenya's parliament and a human rights attorney and supporter. The three women express their opinions about what women and children in African cultures need to succeed. The film is said to portray a women's revolution on the Africa of the era (the late 2000s and early 2010s).
Title: Women in African cinema
Content:  portraying an unshakeable patriarchy, but as expressions of a general loss of identity, with extreme examples of sexual politics functioning as a "process in which cultural roles can be modified through affective partnerships between men and women." In 1975 Safi Faye released Kaddu Beykat, which is widely considered to be the first feature film to be commercially released that was directed by an African woman. She had previously released a short film, "La Passante", about three years prior in 1972. She is also credited as being the first African woman film director to gain international recognition, as Kaddu Beykat won several awards among which is the FIPRESCI Prize. Other films that were released during this time period include Maldoror's 1972 film Sambizanga.
Title: Women in African cinema
Content:  Per Harrow, African women filmmakers became prolific during the 1980s and 1990s, "finally providing us with something more significant than Sembene's images of long-oppressed wives or daughters" and that "Perhaps the best way to understand post-engagement cinema is as that of a cinema that has begun to turn in the direction of women as harbingers for Africa's future." Woman centric films were traditionally less essentialist and less about double repression by African patriarchal culture and Western colonising forces.
Title: Black women filmmakers
Content:  Madeline Anderson is considered "a trailblazer in the world of nonfiction filmmaking", recognized particularly for I Am Somebody (1970) and the earlier A Tribute to Malcolm X (1967). Safi Faye, a Senegalese film director, was the first Sub-Saharan African woman to direct a commercially distributed feature film, Kaddu Beykat, which was released in 1975.

Question: Who was the director of The African Woman?
Answer: Margarethe von Trotta.
Margarethe Von Trotta.