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CAMP DE THIAROYE

CAMP DE THIAROYE

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...
Bushman

Bushman

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...
Boujemaa and the House of Cinema

Boujemaa and the House of Cinema

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...
Africa on the Seine

Africa on the Seine

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...
N’SEKOTÊ (in spite of me

N’SEKOTÊ (in spite of me

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...