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...
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....
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....
Synopsis In the canton of Boutefil at the gateway to the Chadian desert, unmarried women are accused by the Iman of being the source of the divine wrath on the village. The village chiefs decide to hold a traditional ceremony, the Amchilini, which consists in forcing...
Synopsis Awa, a 15-year-old schoolgirl, enjoys her teenage years with her twin brother Adama who dreams of Europe. When their grandmother dies, her aunt Fatou and uncle Atoumane promise to marry to preserve the family union. But Fatou does not like Atoumane and the...
Synopsis Algeria, 1516. The pirate Aroudj Barbarossa frees Algiers from the tyranny of the Spanish and seizes power over the kingdom. Rumor has it he murdered King Salim Toumi despite their alliance. Against all odds, one woman will stand up to him: Queen Zaphira....
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