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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...
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 "The Nights Still Smell of Gunpowder." Returning to my grandmother Maria's village, I'm driven by a personal quest to...
EVERYBODY LOVES TOUDA
Nabil AYOUCH, Morocco, 2024 SYNOPSISTouda dreams of becoming a Cheikha, a traditional Moroccan artist who sings boldly and without censorship about resistance, love, and emancipation. Performing every night in the bars of her small provincial town under the watchful...
DEMBA
Mamadou Dia, SENEGAL, 2024 SYNOPSIS Demba is about to retire after 30 years of service at the city hall in his small town in Northern Senegal. That hot summer, as the 2-year anniversary of his wife’s passing approaches, he realizes he just can’t “shake it off.” As his...
AUGURE
BALOJI, Democratic Republic of Congo, 2023SYNOPSISAfter 15 years away, Koffi returns to Congo to introduce his pregnant wife to his family. A family that considers him a sorcerer. Encounters with three other individuals who also seek to free themselves from the weight...
Good bye Julia
MOHAMED KORDOFANI, SOUDAN, 2023 SYNOPSIS Wracked by guilt after covering up a murder, Mona — a northern Sudanese retired singer in a tense marriage — tries to make amends by taking in the deceased’s southern Sudanese widow, Julia, and her son, Daniel, into her home....
ALL THE COLOURS OF THE WORLD ARE BETWEEN BLACK AND WHITE
SYNOPSIS Bambino, a single man, earns a stable income as a delivery driver in Lagos. He is well-liked in his neighborhood, always willing to help others when he can. While his neighbor’s advances leave him indifferent, Bambino meets the charismatic Bawa, a...
The Village Next To Paradise
Mo Harawe, Somalie, 2024 SYNOPSIS In a windy Somali village, a newly assembled family must navigate between their different aspirations and the complex world surrounding them. Love, trust and resilience will power them through their life paths. BIOFILMOGRAPHY Mo...
The Bride
Myriam U. Birara, Rwanda, 2023 SYNOPSIS Three years after the genocide against the Tutsis, Eva, a young woman with dreams of going to medical school is abducted and subjected to Guterura, a form of traditional marriage. Feeling abandoned by her conservative family who...
SANKO, GOD’S DREAM
Fousseyni MAÏGA, Mali, 2023 SYNOPSIS After the death of his father, N’Tjo Deba faces a wave of hatred and greed within his family. The inheritance left by his father, N’Tji Deba, becomes the object of everyone’s desires. Without a will, his uncles M’Pie and Niamn take...
ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL
Rungano Nynoi, ZAMBIE, 2024 SYNOPSIS On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family, in...
NOME
SANA NA N’HADA, Guinea-Bissau, 2023 SYNOPSIS Guinea-Bissau, 1969. A violent war rages between the Portuguese colonial army and the guerrillas of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde. NOME leaves his village to join the resistance in the...
Malês
Antonio Pitanga, Brésil, 2024 SYNOPSIS MALÊS is a journey of resistance and courage, set in the vibrant Salvador of 1835. During their marriage, two young Muslims are torn from their homeland in Africa and enslaved in Brazil. Separated by cruel fate, they...
Les Invertueuses
Chloé-Aïcha BORO, Burkina Faso, 2024SYNOPSIS In Burkina Faso, against the backdrop of advancing jihadist forces, Natie, a troubled teenager, discovers that her grandmother married a man she did not love. In her quest to mend her grandmother’s shattered destiny, Natie...
LES ENFANTS ROUGES
Lotfi Achour, Tunisie, 2024 SYNOPSIS Mghila Mountain, Tunisia, November 2015. When a jihadist group attacks two very young shepherds, 14-year-old Ashraf is forced to take a macabre message back to his family. Traumatized and trying not to lose his mind, Ashraf finds...