SYNOPSIS Angola. Three generations of women in a 25-year-long civil war: Lelena (the grandmother), Nayola (the daughter) and Yara (the granddaughter). Past and present interlace. Nayola goes in search of her missing husband at the height of the war. Decades...
Synopsis Stay Up follows Malian dancer Mariam Doumbia as she tells her life story through dance, and prepares for her final performance at a dance school in Ouagadougou. For Miriam, fleeing from Mali and migrating to Burkina Faso gave her the possibility to start a...
Synopsis Quirino, a 76-year-old man, has lived for over 30 years in an abandoned village, in a deep valley, between the sea and the mountains. Feeling old, Quirino faces a dilemma of either to leave the only place he’s ever known or end his days there. Biofilmography...
Synopsis The film traces the history of former members of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK for short), the military wing of the ANC founded by Nelson Mandela, the father of the South Africa nation. The Western international history of this man tends to conceal the fact the was...
Synopsis The death of my uncle, a religious authority in the region, led to a Western-inspired court case, breaking with a centuries-old tradition of oral legacy : a “social bomb” in the making in West African societies. Our courtyard becomes the theatre where the...
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