Reflecting the vibrant energy of the continent’s creative documentary, this section is a meeting platform for filmmakers and producers, programmers and film critics and fans as well through its FESPACO DOC space.
DOCUMENTARY SECTION 2025
FATOW / THE MADMEN
Fousseyni MAIGA, Mali, 2024 SYNOPSIS Culture is, by essence, the alpha and omega of all development. It serves as the foundation for identity...
ABO ZAABAL 89
Bassam Mortada, Egypte, 2024 SYNOPSIS Bassam Mortada was five years old when he first visited father Mahmoud in the notorious Abo Zaabal prison....
SITABAOMBA, CHEZ LES ZEBUS FRANCOPHONES
Nantenaina LOVA, Madagascar, 2023 SYNOPSIS Ly is one of the last farmer orators in Madagascar's capital. His life was turned upside down in 2016...
TONGO SAA, RISING UP AT NIGHTBy
TONGO SAA, RISING UP AT NIGHTBy Nelson Makengo, DRC, Belgium, Germany, 2024 SYNOPSIS Darkness falls over Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic...
The MOTHER OF ALL LIES
Asmae El Moudir, Maroc, Royaume d’Arabie Saudite, Quatar, Egypte,2023 SYNOPSIS Young Moroccan filmmaker Asmae El Moudir wants to know why she only...
MOTHER CITY
MIKI Redelnghuys and Pearle Joubert BIOFILMOGRAPHY Known as...
MAMBAR PIERETTE
SYNOPSIS The city of Douala is in trepidation for the start of the new school year. A long line of customers come to Mambar Pierrette, the...
FAR FROM ME THE ANGER
Joël AKAFOU SYNOPSISMany lives were lost in Ziglo, Côte d’Ivoire, during the 2011–2012 civil war between the Guéré, the indigenous community, and...
L’HOMME-VERTIGE
Malaury Eloi Paisley, Guadeloupe, 2023 SYNOPSISVertigo is anguish, a state of disorientation, a fleeting madness. Men, wandering in circles, are...
L’HOMME QUI PLANTE LES BAOBABS
L’HOMME QUI PLANTE LES BAOBABSMichel K. ZONGO, BURKINA FASO, 2024 SYNOPSISFor 50 years, a man has been planting baobabs in his village in western...
DONGA
Muhannad Lamin, 2023 SYNOPSIS For almost a decade (2011-2021), Donga has been recording events that are meaningful to him with his camera, among...
DIDY
Gaël Kamilindi, Rwanda, 2024 SYNOPSIS What remains, thirty years later, of the memory of a mother that a son never had the time to know? Gaël...
As Noites Ainda Cheiram a Pólvora / The Nights Still Smell Of Gunpowder
INADELSO COSSA, Mozambique, 2024 Synopsis: Immersed in Mozambique's intricate history, I'm compelled to unravel the narrative woven into the film...
FORGETTING KILLS TWICE
Pierre Michel Jean, Haiti, 2023 SYNOPSISIn 1937, Dominican dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo ordered the massacre of over 20,000 Haitian immigrants...
AMAKKI
Célia Boussebaa, Ethiopia, 2024 SYNOPSISNestled in the hills of Sidama, where coffee is cultivated, Amakki unfolds an enchanting story. The lives of...