Ousmane Sembène, Senegal, 1988 SYNOPSIS Senegal, 1944. As the war comes to an end in Europe, a battalion of tirailleurs sénégalais arrives at the Thiaroye transit camp. As they await their demobilization, they learn that their compensation will be cut in half. A...
David Schickele, USA-Nigeria, 1971 SYNOPSIS In 1968, Martin Luther King was assassinated, and the Biafra War led to a devastating famine. Gabriel fled Nigeria and now lives in San Francisco, immersed in the African-American community. In the turbulent United States of...
Mohammed Latrèche, France – Algeria, 2019 SYNOPSIS He is a 75-year-old man, half-blind, who takes 3,000 steps every day. Since 2004, he made a decision: he will no longer speak about cinema. Boujemâa, our living memory. The memory of Algerian cinema, African...
Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, Mamadou SARR, Senegal, 1955 SYNOPSIS: Is Africa truly in Africa, or does it exist on the banks of the Seine? This film presents the bittersweet reflections of a generation of artists and students exiled in Paris, searching for their...
Zouzou Aya Marie RosineSynopsisIn a traditional and strict context, Aïcha, a determined young Muslim woman, dreams of passing the baccalaureate to change her life. However, her husband, Kouyaté, influenced by her patriarchal convictions, did everything possible to...
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