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Becoming black

Becoming black

Imagine that your parents are white but your skin colour is dark and they tell you that’s pure coincidence. This is what happened to a girl in East Berlin in the 1960s. Years before, a group of African men came to study in a village nearby. Here the East German woman...
5 Etoiles/ Fifire Do

5 Etoiles/ Fifire Do

Synopsis We often talk about the dangers of crossing the desert and the Mediterranean. But what we are talking about the least is what happens once the migrants arrive at their destination. In this place called 5 Stars, Malians, Senegalese, Guineans, and others, find...
Boyi biyo – Double poumon

Boyi biyo – Double poumon

Synopsis They are called Boyi Biyo, or ‘double lung’: they are meat rickshaw drivers. Every morning, they wait at the slaughterhouse for their rickshaws to be filled with large quarters of meat. Then they run through the city to their master butcher. Shilo is one of...
Ethereality

Ethereality

Synopsis Stranded in space for 30 years. How does it feel to finally come home? A reflection about migration and the sense of belonging. Biofilmographie/Biofilmography Kantarama GAHIGIRI is a Swiss and Rwandan writer/director, trained in film during her 8 years in New...
Fin / End

Fin / End

Synopsis Lara –a young filmmaker– finds herself in a no place between Cuba and Mozambique. Over an imagined balcony towards the Indian Ocean, Lara is searching for answers to the long silence of her father. She does feel the loneliness preceding the imminent demise of...
Jacob Salem Rock the Naaba

Jacob Salem Rock the Naaba

Synopsis Making room and space for music, this documentary tells how Jacob Salem, small page of the King of Mossi, driven out of the royal court because he played modern music, became the first Mossi rocker of Burkina Faso, now recognised by the Mogho Naaba who urges...