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The Pyramid
Synopsis An ancient Egyptian tries to build an inverted pyramid. Biofilmography Mohamed GHAZALA is assistant professor of animation and the chair and founder of Cinematic Arts School of Effat University/ Saudi Arabia, besides being the Vice President of the Int'l...
The Gravity
SynopsisAn unprecedented alignment of planets impacting gravity will upset the balance of a ghetto and the destiny of two duos of brothers eager to do anything for their freedom in an unceasing fight between old and new generations Biography Franco-Burkinabè Cédric...
Crossing Voices
Synopsis Xaraasi Xanne (Crossing Voices) recounts from a rare film, photographic and sound archive theexemplary adventure of Somankidi Coura, an agricultural cooperative founded in Mali, in 1977, bymigrant workers from West Africa living in France in homes. The story...
From Cairo (Min al Qahira)
Synopsis In the streets of Cairo, documentary filmmaker Hala Galal moves purposefully and quickly.She presents a brave face, but she is in constant fear of being harassed (or worse) just forbeing a working single woman. Galal follows two women, Heba and Aya, who...
THE UMBRELLA MEN
SYNOPSIS After the death of his father, JEROME ADAMS flies back to his hometown Cape Town from Johannesburg, after a 10 year absence. Uninterested in being around his father’s club and minstrels, Jerome hopes to return to Johannesburg soon after the funeral. Given...
THE RIVER IS NOT A BORDER
Synopsis On 9 April 1989, after another clash between Mauritanian herders and Senegalese farmers on the Senegalese border at Diawara, there was an incredible escalation of violence in both countries. These events resulted in thousands of victims and tens of thousands...
Nayola
SYNOPSIS Angola. Three generations of women in a 25-year-long civil war: Lelena (the grandmother), Nayola (the daughter) and Yara (the granddaughter). Past and present interlace. Nayola goes in search of her missing husband at the height of the war. Decades...
Stay Up
Synopsis Stay Up follows Malian dancer Mariam Doumbia as she tells her life story through dance, and prepares for her final performance at a dance school in Ouagadougou. For Miriam, fleeing from Mali and migrating to Burkina Faso gave her the possibility to start a...
Omi Nobu,The New Man
Synopsis Quirino, a 76-year-old man, has lived for over 30 years in an abandoned village, in a deep valley, between the sea and the mountains. Feeling old, Quirino faces a dilemma of either to leave the only place he’s ever known or end his days there. Biofilmography...
MK, l’armée secrète de Mandela
Synopsis The film traces the history of former members of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK for short), the military wing of the ANC founded by Nelson Mandela, the father of the South Africa nation. The Western international history of this man tends to conceal the fact the was...
Al Djanat (Paradis Originel)
Synopsis The death of my uncle, a religious authority in the region, led to a Western-inspired court case, breaking with a centuries-old tradition of oral legacy : a “social bomb” in the making in West African societies. Our courtyard becomes the theatre where the...
Or de vie
Synopsis In Burkina Faso, in the gold panning site of Kalgouli, 16 years old Rasmané goes down to more than 100 meters in artisanal mines for gold. Worried by potential accidents, torn by his parents’ doubts, Rasmané makes his way through this fierce adult world...
L’argent, la liberté, une histoire du franc CFA
Synopsis 1960 marks the end of empires on the African continent. France disappears from the map leaving behind the CFA Franc, a colonial creation, the currency still in use in almost all of its former territories in Sub-Sahara Africa. Why is it that these States...
Je reste photographe
Synopsis A young photographer inherits his elder’s trunk of negatives. Cross-portrait of Paul Kodjo, one of the most influential photographers of post-colonial Côte d’Ivoire, and Ananias Léki Dago, a contemporary Ivorian photographer. Biofilmography Ananias Léki Dago...
Gardien des mondes
Synopsis One day, at the foot of a tomb, Hassan fell asleep and never left the cemetery. For 40 years, he has made his home in the hills of Jellaz in Tunisia, watching over the dead and observing the living. In search of love and freedom, Hassan navigates between day...
The dream chasers
Synopsis Back in Gandiol, his hometown in Senegal, after eight years as a migrant in Spain, Mamadou seeks to be a positive force for his community. With help from his wife Laura and ubder the benevolent eye of Yaaye Khadi, Mamadou’s mother, he begins to build and...
No U-Turn/Lagos Tanger, aller simple
Synopsis Ike Nnaebue returns to the path he took 21 years back when he wanted to go to Europe. A road movie from Nigeria to Morocco through Benin, Burkina Faso, Togo, Mali, Mauritania to meet those who dream of Europe, knowing the road is dangerous. Fragments of...
Our lady of the Chinese shop
Synopsis When a Chinese merchant brings to a neighbourhood of Luanda a peculiar holy plastic figure of Our Lady, a mourning mother will seek peace, a committed barber starts a new cult and a stray kid will look for revenge for his lost friend. This delicate urban tale...
Sira
Synopsis A young Fulani girl, Sira, and her tribe cross the desert to take refuge in her fiancé's village. In the middle of the journey, Sira sees the men of her tribe violently massacred. The leader of the group, Yéré, decides to bring Sira in for having been...
We, students !
Synopsis Nestor, Aaron, Benjamin and Rafiki are economics undergraduates at the University of Bangui. Navigating between overcrowded classrooms, odd jobs that allow students to survive and bribery lurking everywhere, Rafiki shows us what students lives are like in the...