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The dream chasers

The dream chasers

Synopsis Back in Gandiol, his hometown in Senegal, after eight years as a migrant in Spain, Mamadou seeks to be a positive force for his community. With help from his wife Laura and ubder the benevolent eye of Yaaye Khadi, Mamadou’s mother, he begins to build and...
No U-Turn/Lagos Tanger, aller simple

No U-Turn/Lagos Tanger, aller simple

Synopsis Ike Nnaebue returns to the path he took 21 years back when he wanted to go to Europe. A road movie from Nigeria to Morocco through Benin, Burkina Faso, Togo, Mali, Mauritania to meet those who dream of Europe, knowing the road is dangerous. Fragments of...
We, students !

We, students !

Synopsis Nestor, Aaron, Benjamin and Rafiki are economics undergraduates at the University of Bangui. Navigating between overcrowded classrooms, odd jobs that allow students to survive and bribery lurking everywhere, Rafiki shows us what students lives are like in the...
Geology of Separation

Geology of Separation

Synopsis For the past six months, Abderrahmane has been living in the Alp, in northern Italy, in a former family-run hotel turned into a temporary reception centre for asylum seekers. In the room opposite his, lives Laly. Abderrahmane is waiting to go before a...
Fatima, a short life

Fatima, a short life

Synopsis “Fatima, une vie courte” celebrates a young woman who worked as a housekeeper in Morocco and who was so mistreated that she eventually died. Relatively little is known about the victim. The film is rather a portrait of a country with startling contrasts....
The cemetery of cinema

The cemetery of cinema

Synopsis The director travels throughout Guinea in search of “Mouramani” by Mamadou Touré, first film ever made by a French-speaking Black African in 1953, using his camera to confront History. This is a film about cinema, both the kind we watch and the kind we make....