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Mariam
Synopsis Mariam, drawn face and rebellious look, drives her Peugeot. Ready to take on the world to reclaim the custody of her son, 4 years old, the road ahead of her is not the one she expected. Biography Graduated from the script department of Paris X-Nanterre...
DIMANCHE MATIN
Synopsis Gabriela, une jeune pianiste, s’apprête à jouer à son premier récital majeur. Mais un rêve sur sa défunte mère déstabilise l’esprit et le cœur de Gabriela, mettant en danger sa prestation. A partir d’une série d’étranges rencontres au cours d’une journée,...
KHADIGA
Synopsis Khadiga, 18 ans, vit seule avec son bébé après le départ de son mari pour travailler dans une ville éloignée. Lors d'une journée ordinaire, après avoir terminé ses tâches ménagères, elle se fraye un chemin avec son bébé, dans l'agitation des rues du Caire,...
Mataha
Synopsis A girl in her mid-twenties faces her fears while undergoing a major surgery that will change her entire life forever. Biofilmography Ahmed NADER was born in Alexandria in 1986. In 2017, He directed his first short fiction film "Affability".
Can you see us?
Synopsis The film is about a boy born with Albinism his rejected by his father, and we follow his story of love loss and his rise to stardom. It essentially is a becoming of age story of a boy born with Albinism. What we are hoping for you to see is a feature film I...
African Moot
Synopsis Every year, over a hundred of the brightest law students from across Africa gather in a different capital city to compete at the prestigious African Human Rights Moot Competition. Over the course of one week, these young aspirant lawyers act as both...
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...