PARTNERS
L’INCONDITIONNEL
Isabelle Christiane KOURAOGO, Burkina Faso, 2024 SYNOPSIS A mother's love for her child is unconditional. In this family, where 12-year-old Nathan was born with a disability, love has taken center stage. Despite Nathan's difference from his sister Zoé, their mother...
THE OLD MAN AND THE DESERT
Issaka COMPAORÉ, Burkina Faso, 2024 SYNOPSIS:Yacouba SAWADOGO has fought against desertification in the Sahel for decades using ancestral techniques. He successfully halted the advance of the desert and transformed arid lands into fertile, cultivable fields....
THE RETURN
Yacouba KANOU, Burkina Faso, 2022 SYNOPSIS Tolé, a young graduate in agriculture, decides to return to his native village, Tièfora, to apply his knowledge on his late father’s land. To his astonishment, he discovers that the family land has been sold to a wealthy man...
THE GREAT MYSTIC AND THE CRAZY COUSINS
Dramane GNESSI, Burkina Faso, 2023 SYNOPSIS: Georges, a mathematics student, grew up under strict religious and academic discipline. He is oblivious to the norms of social relationships. His father is greatly relieved when Georges moves in with his cousin Emile....
THE CALL OF OUAGA
Abdoul Aziz SAWADOGO, Burkina Faso, 2024 SYNOPSIS:On November 28, 2017, in Ouagadougou, Emmanuel Macron declared: “The first remedy is culture […]. I want the conditions to be in place within five (5) years for temporary or permanent restitutions of African heritage...
LALA
OMAR SAMBASEKOU, Burkina Faso, 2024 SYNOPSIS In a world in distress, governed by the law of the streets where sex, alcohol, drugs, and money reign. Lala, an orphan who lost her mother and grew up without knowing her father, moves from orphanage to foster home, only to...
THE ADVISOR
Corenthien NANA, Burkina Faso, 2023 SYNOPSIS:Hamidou, a young man, lives with his wife Chérifa and his younger brother Karim. Sakina, Chérifa’s friend, helps her with a traditional product said to make her husband more generous. However, after consuming the product,...
KABAKOUROU/THE STONE
Soungalo Afah NIMI, Burkina Faso, 2024 SYNOPSIS The stone is a companion of humanity. We come with the stone, we live on the stone, and we also progress thanks to the stone. If mankind wanted to invent the stone today, it would have the technical and chemical means to...
IN THE SKIN OF ANOTHER
OUEDRAOGO Patindé Constant, Burkina Faso, 2024 SYNOPSIS:Moulaye, an 8-year-old boy, his sister Yasmine, and others, including their father, are abducted by an armed group during a vaccination campaign. Yasmine is mercilessly killed, and Moulaye undergoes brainwashing...
DANIEL OUEZZIN COULIBALY, AFRICA’S PATHS.
Bernard YAMEOGO, Burkina Faso, 2024 SYNOPSIS: Born in 1909 in Pouy, Burkina Faso, Ouézzin Daniel Coulibaly emerged as a charismatic and iconic figure in the struggle for the independence of French West Africa (AOF). Alongside Félix Houphouët-Boigny, he launched the...
ÇA SUFFIT!
Alimata OUEDRAOGO, Burkina Faso, 2023 SYNOPSIS:Manuella, a young woman from Ouagadougou in her early forties, can no longer bear her husband’s sexual appetite and his daily advances, which turn violent when she refuses. At her wit’s end, she files a complaint at the...
Heist in Ouaga
Abdoul Aziz NIKIEMA, Burkina Faso SYNOPSIS:Bouba dreams of a job worthy of his qualifications. His girlfriend Fatou, a customer relations officer at a financial institution, tries to help by speaking to her boss, Benoît. However, Benoît suggests a meeting at a hotel....
ZION
Licínio Januário, Brésil SYNOPSIS : Niara, an independent young woman with a troubled past, crosses paths with Akin, a young man in search of his identity. Their lives intertwine at a party, where an instant connection forms. As they grow closer, they face...
Zanatany, The Imprint of Lonely Shrouds
Hachimiya Ahamada, Comoros, 2024 SYNOPSIS:In December 1976, a three-day revolt erupts in the small town of Majunga, Madagascar. Ali, a widower and second-in-command in a bookbinding workshop, is raising his two teenage daughters alone. One morning, before going to...
VICTORIA
Sam SOKO, Kenya, 2025 SYNOPSIS : Victoria is on a new journey in life. She set up a helium balloon business in Nairobi as a means of surrounding herself with joy, as well as finding security after escaping an abusive relationship. Five years later, she is...
UNDER THE PALM TREE / SOUS LE RONIER
BARO Orokiatou, Burkina Faso, 2024 SYNOPSIS:Gnine, an unhappy wife in her forties and mother of two, is informed by her doctor that her days are numbered. She decides to pursue her suppressed desires, including reconnecting with her first love. BIOFILMOGRAPHY:BARO...
TILE/SUN
Madougué Diabaté, Mali, 2024 SYNOPSIS: In a Malian village, Binta, engaged to Bakary, discreetly maintains a romantic relationship with Rama. In a place where homosexuality is severely punished, Bakary feels dishonored upon this discovery. When the two young women...
THE RWHOO
Safari SENGAIRE, Congo, 2024 SYNOPSIS:In the war-displaced persons camp in Goma, UMWARI sits on a bench, recounting her various lives across refugee camps. From BULENGO to BÂLE, she narrates an endless journey as a refugee and migrant in the world. BIOFILMOGRAPHY:Born...
THE MEDAILLION
Ruth Hunduma, Ethiopie, 2023 Ruth was a teenager when her mother entrusted her with a medallion engraved with a golden portrait of Nefertiti. This piece of jewelry symbolizes her mother’s unimaginable ordeal: captured by Mengistu Haile Mariam’s communist military...
Sita Bella, the First
Eugénie Metala, Cameroon, 2023 SYNOPSIS:An anonymous grave between those of her parents, a dilapidated cinema hall within the Ministry of Arts and Culture—these are the remaining signs of Sita Bella’s presence on earth. Yet, she was the first female journalist, the...