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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

Je me suis mordue la langue

Je me suis mordue la langue

Synopsis While I cannot get to my country, I decide to make a detour and wander around the city of Tunis looking for my native language, Algerian. Biofilmographie/Biofilmography...

Voyage au Kenya/ Journey to Kenya

Voyage au Kenya/ Journey to Kenya

Synopsis The film tracks the journey of the MTC martial arts team, which decides in the face of weak financial means, to go by land from Sudan to Kenya through Ethiopia, to...

L’Inconnu /The Unknown

L’Inconnu /The Unknown

Synopsis Cinema is Simplice’s passion. In Burkina Faso, he usually focuses on human relationships. This project leads him to Switzerland where he has difficulty making contacts....

MADA ou l’histoire du premier homme

MADA ou l’histoire du premier homme

Synopsis. Il y a longtemps avant longtemps, les îles de l’Océan Indien formaient un immense continen Long before long ago, the Indian Ocean islands formed a huge continent. Long...

Nuit Debout

Nuit Debout

Synopsis Darkness in the depths of working-class neighbourhoods, in the absurdity of the rubble of endless nights; night in this nocturnal wreck of physical and symbolic power...

Womb Dance

Womb Dance

Synopsis Movement starts from the womb. Dance is about bodies moving and interacting in a space. Unborn children experience freedom in the womb as they move at their pleasure,...

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...

Aboula Ngando

Aboula Ngando

Synopsis After a night at his mistress, Aboula Ngando returns home to find a great surprise. Biofilmographie/Biofilmography Initially a TV host, an editor and director in...

About a girl

About a girl

Synopsis A normal (maybe stressful) day in a young lady’s life, and how everyone she meets regardless their relationship perceives, judges her differently according to their own...