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Synopsis They are called Boyi Biyo, or ‘double lung’: they are meat rickshaw drivers. Every morning, they wait at the slaughterhouse for their rickshaws to be filled with large quarters of meat. Then they run through the city to their master butcher. Shilo is one of...

Synopsis Stranded in space for 30 years. How does it feel to finally come home? A reflection about migration and the sense of belonging. Biofilmographie/Biofilmography Kantarama GAHIGIRI is a Swiss and Rwandan writer/director, trained in film during her 8 years in New...

Synopsis Lara –a young filmmaker– finds herself in a no place between Cuba and Mozambique. Over an imagined balcony towards the Indian Ocean, Lara is searching for answers to the long silence of her father. She does feel the loneliness preceding the imminent demise of...

Synopsis Making room and space for music, this documentary tells how Jacob Salem, small page of the King of Mossi, driven out of the royal court because he played modern music, became the first Mossi rocker of Burkina Faso, now recognised by the Mogho Naaba who urges...

Synopsis While I cannot get to my country, I decide to make a detour and wander around the city of Tunis looking for my native language, Algerian. Biofilmographie/Biofilmography French-Algerian director and editor Nina KHADA was born in France. She made her...

Synopsis The film tracks the journey of the MTC martial arts team, which decides in the face of weak financial means, to go by land from Sudan to Kenya through Ethiopia, to participate in an international championship there. A journey filled with determination and...

Synopsis Cinema is Simplice’s passion. In Burkina Faso, he usually focuses on human relationships. This project leads him to Switzerland where he has difficulty making contacts. How do you find a story if no one wants to talk to you?  He loses his sleep in these...

Synopsis. Il y a longtemps avant longtemps, les îles de l’Océan Indien formaient un immense continen Long before long ago, the Indian Ocean islands formed a huge continent. Long before long ago, the first man was born on the province of Madagascar. Long, not long...

Synopsis Darkness in the depths of working-class neighbourhoods, in the absurdity of the rubble of endless nights; night in this nocturnal wreck of physical and symbolic power cut. Resistance, left to herself like a chick without a hen, like a pot without a lid, like...

Synopsis Movement starts from the womb. Dance is about bodies moving and interacting in a space. Unborn children experience freedom in the womb as they move at their pleasure, without experiencing the world as an obstacle. Through the documentary, we meet talented...

Synopsis We often talk about the dangers of crossing the desert and the Mediterranean. But what we are talking about the least is what happens once the migrants arrive at their destination. In this place called 5 Stars, Malians, Senegalese, Guineans, and others, find...

Synopsis After a night at his mistress, Aboula Ngando returns home to find a great surprise. Biofilmographie/Biofilmography Initially a TV host, an editor and director in Democratic Republic of Congo, Marcus ONALUNDULA worked from 2010 in South Africa as Chief Editor...

Synopsis A normal (maybe stressful) day in a young lady’s life, and how everyone she meets regardless their relationship perceives, judges her differently according to their own view and reflections, which sometimes may be totally irrelevant to her....

Synopsis In this tale, halfway between reality and fantasy, a mysterious narrator tells us the story of Amani, a young boy passionate about dance. Amani's innocence and joie de vivre open the narrator's eyes to the humanity he had never really cared about before. But...

Synopsis “Anonymes” tells the story of a young girl on day time, her family, her friends, her work and dreams. One discovers her world and her thoughts through the little voice in her head and her imaginary stories. Without suspecting anything, she goes through her...

Synopsis Adil orders a prostitute for the night. When she gets in, he finds out she is black. Biofilmographie/Biofilmography Long-term journalist (30 years of career), doctor by training, poet, novelist, man of culture and cinema, progressist and activist of the...

Synopsis Moktar always said that when he will shut down his bar Bablinga, he will return to Burkina. This day has arrived, but he’s not really ready to leave. Despite himself, ghosts invite themselves to celebrate a last evening. Biofilmographie/Biofilmography Fabien...

Synopsis Two childhood friends, Ashish and Pascal, see each other for the last time before the first leaves for France to continue his studies. This last and long night of encounters and exchanges exposes their friendship, their thoughts and hopes, but also their...

Synopsis Two childhood friends, Ashish and Pascal, see each other for the last time before the first leaves for France to continue his studies. This last and long night of encounters and exchanges exposes their friendship, their thoughts and hopes, but also their...

Synopsis Gwacoulou tells the legend of preservation of peace through the transformation of three pairs of twin girls into the three stones of a traditional fireplace and their mother in its pot ("the canary"). Nowadays, these stones are still one of the pillars of...