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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...
Geology of Separation
Synopsis For the past six months, Abderrahmane has been living in the Alp, in northern Italy, in a former family-run hotel turned into a temporary reception centre for asylum seekers. In the room opposite his, lives Laly. Abderrahmane is waiting to go before a...
Fatima, a short life
Synopsis “Fatima, une vie courte” celebrates a young woman who worked as a housekeeper in Morocco and who was so mistreated that she eventually died. Relatively little is known about the victim. The film is rather a portrait of a country with startling contrasts....
The cemetery of cinema
Synopsis The director travels throughout Guinea in search of “Mouramani” by Mamadou Touré, first film ever made by a French-speaking Black African in 1953, using his camera to confront History. This is a film about cinema, both the kind we watch and the kind we make....
Amchilini
Synopsis In the canton of Boutefil at the gateway to the Chadian desert, unmarried women are accused by the Iman of being the source of the divine wrath on the village. The village chiefs decide to hold a traditional ceremony, the Amchilini, which consists in forcing...
Xalé
Synopsis Awa, a 15-year-old schoolgirl, enjoys her teenage years with her twin brother Adama who dreams of Europe. When their grandmother dies, her aunt Fatou and uncle Atoumane promise to marry to preserve the family union. But Fatou does not like Atoumane and the...
The last queen
Synopsis Algeria, 1516. The pirate Aroudj Barbarossa frees Algiers from the tyranny of the Spanish and seizes power over the kingdom. Rumor has it he murdered King Salim Toumi despite their alliance. Against all odds, one woman will stand up to him: Queen Zaphira....
The blue caftan
Synopsis Halim and Mina run a traditional caftan store in one of Morocco’s oldest medinas. In order to keep up with the commands of the demanding customers, they hire Youssef. The talented apprentice shows an utmost dedication in learning the art of embroidery and...
Under the fig trees
Synopsis Among the trees, young women and men working the summer harvest develop new feelings, flirt, try to understand each other, find and flee deeper connections. Biofilmography Erige Sehiri is a French-Tunisian director and producer. With her own production...
Simin Zetwal (Gazing at Stars)
Synopsis In a working -class estate of Mauritius, old man Bolom is nowhere to be seen. His son Ronaldo sets out to find him and meets Ajeya, an Indian migrant worker. He dreams of a Golden boy’s life, she flees her condition as a modern-day slave. Together, their...
Shimoni
Synopsis After 7 years in prison Geoffrey, 35, has to restart his life in Shimoni, a sleepy village in rural Kenya, a place he loathes. There, he stays hiding in the local Catholic Church compound and never leaves. Then one Sunday after Mass, Geoffrey sees a man with...
Our father, the devil
Synopsis Marie works as the head cook in a retirement home in a small mountain town in the south of France. Though she seems relatively well adjusted, Marie harbours a shameful secret-she's a former child soldier. Silently struggling with the remnants of her traumatic...
Maputo Nakuzanda
Synopsis It’s dawn in the capital of Mozambique. Young people are leaving the nightclubs. In the backyards, women are starting their day. A man is running, a woman is coming back from a trip, a tourist is walking, a worker is taking public transport, and Maputo...
Ashkal
Synopsis In the Gardens of Carthage, a district of Tunis initiated by the former Regime which construction stopped at the beginning of the Revolution, two cops, Fatma and Batal, find a burnt body in one of the lots. As construction slowly resumes, they start looking...
Bantú Mama
Synopsis A French woman of African descent manages to escape after being arrested in the Dominican Republic. She finds shelter in the most dangerous district of Santo Domingo, where she is taken in by a group of children living on their own. By becoming their protégée...