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Katanga Nation
SynopsisKatanga is a bustling district of Addis Ababa where many locals dream of making it big in the capital. Enkehone, a street vendor from the countryside, lives in Amele Mamo's makeshift hostel. Both are part of this struggling community on the brink of...
Cuba in Africa
Synopsis The dramatic untold story of 420,000 Cubans soldiers and teachers, doctors and nurses who gave everything to end colonial rule and apartheid in Southern Africa. Biography Ethiopian-American filmmaker and educational technology consultant. Founder of RISystems...
Burkina Babes
Synopsis A filmmaker visited Ouagadougou the capital city of Burkina Faso and did not only got inspired by the aesthetics of motorbikes and bicycles that gave the city a unique cultural beauty, he also discovers through his lens that there was something appealing...
TSUTSUE
Synopsis Alone in a local landfill site that borders the Atlantic, two fisherman’s sons engage in a friendly game of hide and seek until the youngest of the two stumbles upon a horrific sight: the corpse of a young man washed up along the shore. Believing it to be his...
Trame de Tendresse
Synopsis La routine de la vie quotidienne entre Radia et sa mère engendre un malaise affreux et devient un obstacle majeur pour l’avenir émotionnel de Radia et sa relation avec sa mère. Cette monotonie provoquera donc un clivage imprévu. Biofilmographie La cinéaste et...
Mulika
Synopsis Un 'afronaute' surgit de l’épave d’un vaisseau spatial dans le cratère volcanique du mont Nyiragongo. Alors qu’il descend dans la ville en contrebas, rencontrant les habitants de l’actuel Gomas, il commence à comprendre ce qu’il doit faire pour changer...
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...