Synopsis When a Chinese merchant brings to a neighbourhood of Luanda a peculiar holy plastic figure of Our Lady, a mourning mother will seek peace, a committed barber starts a new cult and a stray kid will look for revenge for his lost friend. This delicate urban tale...
Synopsis In Burkina Faso, in the gold panning site of Kalgouli, 16 years old Rasmané goes down to more than 100 meters in artisanal mines for gold. Worried by potential accidents, torn by his parents’ doubts, Rasmané makes his way through this fierce adult world...
Synopsis 1960 marks the end of empires on the African continent. France disappears from the map leaving behind the CFA Franc, a colonial creation, the currency still in use in almost all of its former territories in Sub-Sahara Africa. Why is it that these States...
Synopsis A young photographer inherits his elder’s trunk of negatives. Cross-portrait of Paul Kodjo, one of the most influential photographers of post-colonial Côte d’Ivoire, and Ananias Léki Dago, a contemporary Ivorian photographer. Biofilmography Ananias Léki Dago...
Synopsis One day, at the foot of a tomb, Hassan fell asleep and never left the cemetery. For 40 years, he has made his home in the hills of Jellaz in Tunisia, watching over the dead and observing the living. In search of love and freedom, Hassan navigates between day...
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