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PHIONA, UMUKOBWA UVUYE I MADRID – PHIONA, THE GIRL FROM MADRID

PHIONA, UMUKOBWA UVUYE I MADRID – PHIONA, THE GIRL FROM MADRID

Mutiganda wa Nkunda, Rwanda, Benin, Saudi Arabia, 2023 SYNOPSIS:Kigali, June 2020. It has been a few days since Phiona returned from Madrid—a metaphorical city where she was cut off from the outside world for three years. After a day filled with friendly conversations...
NAIL’S MAN

NAIL’S MAN

Twana Sheriya, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2023 SYNOPSISKUWA JIBIKA has just been fired, but he doesn’t dare tell his partner, Nella. Every morning, he pretends to go to work, making her believe that he is still employed by “the Lebanese.” One day, he meets...
MOUGHA YOUCHKED – MORA IS HERE

MOUGHA YOUCHKED – MORA IS HERE

Khalid Zairi, Morocco, 2023 SYNOPSISIn the 1950s, faced with the coal crisis, Charbonnages de France turned to Felix Mora, a former officer of Indigenous Affairs in Morocco, to recruit Moroccan laborers. Mora was tasked with finding an illiterate, submissive, and...
LES MIENNES

LES MIENNES

Samira El Mouzghiba, Morocco, 2024 SYNOPSIS As the youngest of five sisters, I know I have inherited a painful part of their story. In response to a tragic event that was kept silent, a sisterhood was formed—one that excluded my mother. Since then, between us, we...
CENT DOUZE

CENT DOUZE

CENT DOUZEJoël M’Maka, Togo, 2024 SYNOPSIS1934, the arrival of the first train. I stood majestically at the heart of Togo, in a place that would later become Blitta—a cosmopolitan city that was built around me. I brought prosperity, a golden era that sparked envy…...