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VICTORIA

VICTORIA

Sam SOKO, Kenya, 2025 SYNOPSIS : Victoria is on a new journey in life. She set up a helium balloon business in Nairobi as a means of surrounding herself with joy, as well as finding security after escaping an abusive relationship. Five years later, she is...
UNDER THE PALM TREE / SOUS LE RONIER

UNDER THE PALM TREE / SOUS LE RONIER

BARO Orokiatou, Burkina Faso, 2024 SYNOPSIS:Gnine, an unhappy wife in her forties and mother of two, is informed by her doctor that her days are numbered. She decides to pursue her suppressed desires, including reconnecting with her first love. BIOFILMOGRAPHY:BARO...
TILE/SUN

TILE/SUN

Madougué Diabaté, Mali, 2024 SYNOPSIS: In a Malian village, Binta, engaged to Bakary, discreetly maintains a romantic relationship with Rama. In a place where homosexuality is severely punished, Bakary feels dishonored upon this discovery. When the two young women...
THE RWHOO

THE RWHOO

Safari SENGAIRE, Congo, 2024 SYNOPSIS:In the war-displaced persons camp in Goma, UMWARI sits on a bench, recounting her various lives across refugee camps. From BULENGO to BÂLE, she narrates an endless journey as a refugee and migrant in the world. BIOFILMOGRAPHY:Born...
THE MEDAILLION

THE MEDAILLION

Ruth Hunduma, Ethiopie, 2023 Ruth was a teenager when her mother entrusted her with a medallion engraved with a golden portrait of Nefertiti. This piece of jewelry symbolizes her mother’s unimaginable ordeal: captured by Mengistu Haile Mariam’s communist military...
Sita Bella, the First

Sita Bella, the First

Eugénie Metala, Cameroon, 2023 SYNOPSIS:An anonymous grave between those of her parents, a dilapidated cinema hall within the Ministry of Arts and Culture—these are the remaining signs of Sita Bella’s presence on earth. Yet, she was the first female journalist, the...