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KONDEKIE
Kadidiatou KONAKÉ, Mali, 2024 SYNOPSISAfter refusing to comply with the demands of their attackers, the du’ât take necessary measures to protect themselves from those seeking to fight them. Following this conflict, they are given the name KONDEKIE. BIOFILMOGRAPHYBorn...
KADI JOLIE RACONTE
KADI JOLIE RACONTEAminata Diallo-Glez, Burkina Faso, 2024 SYNOPSIS Épisode 1 : « Girafou »In the savanna, Girafou the giraffe dreams of joining the firefighters. But everyone mocks her neck, her size, and her femininity. One day, however, the firefighters will need...
Kabri i manz salad / Scapegoat
Kabri i manz salad / ScapegoatNicolas Séry, La Réunion, 2023 SYNOPSISIn a public housing project in La Réunion, as the Eid al-Adha festival approaches, Ibrahim, a 12-year-old boy of Comorian descent, is stigmatized by Evan, a neighbor his age, who accuses him of being...
In the Shadow of Feathers
Armel POUYA, Burkina Faso, 2024 SYNOPSISSamba, a young boy, dreams of escaping the hunting life imposed by his older brother and becoming a bird, free to fly wherever he wishes. When his wish is granted by a mysterious goddess, his tragic flight takes an unexpected...
Our Land, Our Freedom
Meena Nanji, Zippy Kimundu, Kenya, Portugal, Allemagne, 2023 SYNOPSIS Our Land, Our Freedom tells the story of two extraordinary Kenyan women - a mother and daughter, Mukami and Wanjugu Kimathi. Mukami was a freedom fighter in Kenya’s 1950s independence movement, and...
Yambo Ouologuem : La Blessure
Kalidou Sy, Sénégal, 2024 SYNOPSISIn 1968, when Le Devoir de Violence was published, Yambo Ouologuem was still an unknown young Malian writer. Addressing themes of slavery and crimes between Africans before French colonization, his book quickly brought him out of...
NDAR SAGA WAALO
Ousmane William Mbaye, Senegal, 2024 SYNOPSISNdar, the original name of Saint Louis, a small island on the Senegal River, was the stronghold of colonial penetration in West Africa four centuries ago. An economic, cultural, and political crossroads, it served as a...
MEMORIES OF LOVE RETURNED/ LES SOUVENIRS D’AMOUR SONT REVENUS
Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Ouganda,USA, 2024 SYNOPSIS On April 24th, 2002 filmmaker Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine’s car broke down in the small town of Mbirizi, Uganda. While waiting for his car to be repaired he stumbled upon a small photo studio and met photographer Kibaate...
LES FILLES D’OLFA
KAOUTHER BEN HANIA, France/Tunisie-Allemagne/Arabie saoudite, 2023 SYNOPSIS Between light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters.One day, her two older daughters disappear. To fill in their absence, the filmmaker Kaouther Ben...
THE DESTINY OF A FEMALE TRUCK DRIVER
THE DESTINY OF A FEMALE TRUCK DRIVERYssouf Koussé, Burkina Faso, 2023 SYNOPSISMassata Cissé, the only female truck driver in Burkina Faso for the past 30 years, travels through the ports and markets of neighboring countries at the wheel of a semi-trailer truck. At 59,...
BACKSTAGE
Afef Ben Mahmoud and Khalil Benkirane, Tunisia, Morocco, 2023 SYNOPSISAida, a member of a dance troupe on tour in Morocco, provokes Hedi, her partner in life and on stage. He injures her in front of the horrified eyes of the other troupe members, triggering a series...
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 Republic of Congo. In an environment marked by violence and uncertainty, people wait and fight for access to light. Between...
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 has one photograph from her childhood, and why the girl in the picture isn’t even her. She decides to explore the past...
MOTHER CITY
MIKI Redelnghuys and Pearle Joubert BIOFILMOGRAPHY Known as the Mother Cty, Cape Town les resplendent between the conc Table Mountan and the cy Atlantc ocean. Mother Cty charts a...
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 neighbourhood dressmaker, to have their clothes ready for imminent social events and ceremonies. More than just a sewer,...
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 the Mossi, originally from Burkina Faso. After waiting too long for state justice, Josiane, known as Maman Jo, a Guéré...
L’HOMME-VERTIGE
Malaury Eloi Paisley, Guadeloupe, 2023 SYNOPSISVertigo is anguish, a state of disorientation, a fleeting madness. Men, wandering in circles, are trapped in Pointe-à-Pitre, a labyrinthine city. They traverse it endlessly, as if on an infinite pilgrimage. This film...
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 Burkina Faso. Initially, his actions were met with misunderstanding. Now 82 years old, more than 4,600 baobabs stretch as...
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 those the Libyan uprising or war against ISIS. From everyday life to armed conflict, his insider position and personal...
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 Kamilindi was only five years old when his mother Didy died. The memories of her presence have since been lost in the fury of...