PARTNERS
A VERY LONG LETTER
Angèle Diabang, Senegal, 2024 SYNOPSISRamatoulaye, a 50-year-old teacher, has been married to lawyer Modou Fall for 25 years. The couple shares a deep bond and enjoys a happy life with their four children. However, when her husband takes a second wife—her daughter’s...
WARASSA, THE HERITAGE
Aaron Padacké Zégoubé, Chad, 2024 SYNOPSIS:SABOURA, 18, is the eldest daughter of a former military officer and a civil servant. She has a younger brother, MANDOUH, who is four years her junior. SABOURA and MANDOUH share a strong bond and are very close. Both were...
A NIGHT SO LONG
Delphine YERBANGA, Burkina Faso, 2024 SYNOPSIS:The film depicts a night of horror in a West African city. That night, Alex, a thief, was waiting for the right moment to break into a house. Peering through the window, he observed the occupants—Stéphane and Aline, a...
PHIONA, UMUKOBWA UVUYE I MADRID – PHIONA, THE GIRL FROM MADRID
Mutiganda wa Nkunda, Rwanda, Benin, Saudi Arabia, 2023 SYNOPSIS:Kigali, June 2020. It has been a few days since Phiona returned from Madrid—a metaphorical city where she was cut off from the outside world for three years. After a day filled with friendly conversations...
NAIL’S MAN
Twana Sheriya, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2023 SYNOPSISKUWA JIBIKA has just been fired, but he doesn’t dare tell his partner, Nella. Every morning, he pretends to go to work, making her believe that he is still employed by “the Lebanese.” One day, he meets...
MOUGHA YOUCHKED – MORA IS HERE
Khalid Zairi, Morocco, 2023 SYNOPSISIn the 1950s, faced with the coal crisis, Charbonnages de France turned to Felix Mora, a former officer of Indigenous Affairs in Morocco, to recruit Moroccan laborers. Mora was tasked with finding an illiterate, submissive, and...
LES MIENNES
Samira El Mouzghiba, Morocco, 2024 SYNOPSIS As the youngest of five sisters, I know I have inherited a painful part of their story. In response to a tragic event that was kept silent, a sisterhood was formed—one that excluded my mother. Since then, between us, we...
CENT DOUZE
CENT DOUZEJoël M’Maka, Togo, 2024 SYNOPSIS1934, the arrival of the first train. I stood majestically at the heart of Togo, in a place that would later become Blitta—a cosmopolitan city that was built around me. I brought prosperity, a golden era that sparked envy…...
CATCHER
CATCHERDerhwa Kasunzu, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), 2024 SYNOPSISIn Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo, a fallen wrestling star and his fellow fighters struggle to organize a grand event in honor of their late mentor, a forgotten former world...
ISANO
Sangwa Deus Dedit, RWANDA SynopsisKAMALIZA, is a nurse works in the military hospital at Kanombe. She is tasked with monitoring apatient who has been in a coma for 5 years. When James, the patient started to recover, she continuesto take care of him at his home. Is...
SITABAOMBA, CHEZ LES ZEBUS FRANCOPHONES
Nantenaina LOVA, Madagascar, 2023 SYNOPSIS Ly is one of the last farmer orators in Madagascar's capital. His life was turned upside down in 2016 when long-armed speculators began coveting the land he farms. Like an egg arguing with a pebble, Ly and his farmer friends...
PIRINHA
Natasha Craveiro, Cap Vert, 2024 SYNOPSIS Pirinha is a young woman's journey through the recesses of her subconscious in search of herself and coming to terms with her past. On her journey, she encounters the so-called 'evil' creatures from Cape Verdean folklore that...
DISCO AFRIKA
Luck RAZANAJAONA, Madagascar, 2024 SYNOPSIS Madagascar, nowadays. Twenty-year-old Kwame, who struggles to make a living in the clandestine sapphire mines, is taken back to his hometown by an unexpected turn of events. As he reunites with his mother and old friends, he...
VESTIGES DU PASSE, SUR LES TRACES DU GOUVERNEUR FAIDHERBE
Fara KONATÉ, Sénégal September 2017. A violent wind toppled the statue of General Louis Léon Faidherbe, which had stood for 130 years at the heart of Saint-Louis, Senegal. The youth of the 21st century, who denounce symbols of colonialism, celebrated with joy. As the...
NZONZING
Moimi WEZAM, Congo Six days out of seven, Lordi, Andria, Hénoch, and Tychique dress up to perform comedy sketches for customers at the terraces of Kinshasa’s bistros. Since humor no longer pays, they turn to music and dream of organizing a popular show. Despite the...
TO DANIEL
Marwa Ali ELSHARKAWI, Egypte An old Armenian man, a saint of cinema, creates an imaginary world of distant dreams for his young director friend, so that she can return to her love of life again after a crisis of isolation and illness. They embark on a challenging,...
AU DE-LA DES ILLUSIONS
Salif KONE, Côte d'Ivoire William and Jack, two childhood friends from humble backgrounds, dream of escaping their everyday lives. Their fate takes a dramatic turn when William stumbles upon a bag of drugs, dragging them into the criminal underworld under the...
SHADES OF US
Twamsan DANAAN, Nigeria What is takes to redeem any person whom has lost it all including their affinity for life its self is explored in the shades that exists in every one of us through the ability to create newness in this identity driven African psychological and...
DJELIYA, MEMORY DU MANDINGUE
Boubacar SANGARÉ,Burkina Faso Sékou Timité has one ambition: to follow in the footsteps of a father he never knew and become a Djeli, a griot—one of the guardians of oral memory in West Africa. As the only member of his family interested in the fading art of the...
BROKEN DRUMS
Marcelin BOSSOU Arnold SETOHOU, TOGO Manu, a 15-year-old girl, discovers her family’s history of slavery and the curse that comes with it. Guided by an EGUNGUN (Spirit of the Ancestors), Manu embarks on a journey to redeem her family through percussion.