When Zézé Gamboa's powerful Angolan film "The Hero" won the World Cinema Dramatic Jury Prize of the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, it came as a surprise to many festival attendees that Angola had a film industry, much less one that could command world attention. In fact, it barely does. "The Hero," like many African films, represents a collaboration of European technical skill and African storytelling, and was one of only three films produced by that war-ravaged, poverty-stricken country last year. Dave Kehr reports in the New York Times (free subscription required to view).