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The Village Next To Paradise

The Village Next To Paradise

Mo Harawe, Somalie, 2024 SYNOPSIS In a windy Somali village, a newly assembled family must navigate between their different aspirations and the complex world surrounding them. Love, trust and resilience will power them through their life paths. BIOFILMOGRAPHY Mo...
The Bride

The Bride

Myriam U. Birara, Rwanda, 2023 SYNOPSIS Three years after the genocide against the Tutsis, Eva, a young woman with dreams of going to medical school is abducted and subjected to Guterura, a form of traditional marriage. Feeling abandoned by her conservative family who...
SANKO, GOD’S DREAM

SANKO, GOD’S DREAM

Fousseyni MAÏGA, Mali, 2023 SYNOPSIS After the death of his father, N’Tjo Deba faces a wave of hatred and greed within his family. The inheritance left by his father, N’Tji Deba, becomes the object of everyone’s desires. Without a will, his uncles M’Pie and Niamn take...
ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL

ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL

Rungano Nynoi, ZAMBIE, 2024 SYNOPSIS On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family, in...
NOME

NOME

SANA NA N’HADA, Guinea-Bissau, 2023 SYNOPSIS Guinea-Bissau, 1969. A violent war rages between the Portuguese colonial army and the guerrillas of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde. NOME leaves his village to join the resistance in the...
 Malês

 Malês

Antonio Pitanga, Brésil, 2024  SYNOPSIS MALÊS is a journey of resistance and courage, set in the vibrant Salvador of 1835. During their marriage, two young Muslims are torn from their homeland in Africa and enslaved in Brazil. Separated by cruel fate, they...