Filmmakers Wambui Ndegwa and Cole Lewis make the Kenyan reality visible through the story of a family that began adopti…
Poetic, contemplative and testimonial, this documentary gathers the impressions of hundreds of Central African men, wom…
Tour Du Faso, Africa's top cycling race, where foreigners and locals try to be the winner on a route full of unforeseen…
To dig into her family tree, a Kenyan woman in exile embarks on a journey to three countries to construct the figure of…
Although apartheid ended more than twenty years ago, young people in South Africa are still fighting to eliminate discr…
A stolen camera is the tool that a director of a theater group in Dakar needs to shoot an LGBTI film with his actors. B…
Shot in a beautiful black and white at a Zimbabwean orphanage, children and teenagers look at us and talk about the lif…
This documentary takes us to Guangzhou, China, where three enterprising African women try to make their way in business…
Through her father's daily life in Mansourah, Algeria, filmmaker Dorothée-Myriam Kellou unearths the wound of a painful…
Next to a majestic forest, in the southeast of Cameroon, the inhabitants of a village survive with their prosaic activi…
Boxer by day, nightclub watchman by night, Christ prepares for his next fight in the ring while in the streets of Libre…
Being gay in Cameroon, you have to face the daily struggle of not being able to express your physical love publicly, in…
What is it like in a city where there is not a single cinema for ten million inhabitants? Faces and voices from Kinshas…
Everything around Asalif, an Ethiopian boy, is in constant change. The construction of a housing complex on his land af…
This documentary follows two young men in Mali who dream of becoming professional soccer players to be able to go to Eu…
Miguel has heard that he looks a lot like his father, whom he has never met. In this story we accompany him in a poetic…
A series of impressive photographs of Algerian landscapes and the voices of its inhabitants reflect the traces of the A…
This documentary rescues part of the vast propaganda footage that the Soviets shot in Africa to document their humanita…
Through interviews with the movement's protagonists, this documentary addresses the story of the Inkotanyi, the armed g…
Through testimonies and archive footage, this film tells the story of people from Borgo who escaped fascist Italy in se…
This short film is an endearing portrait of Peter Nhiany, who was forced to flee Sudan during a bloody civil war and no…
This award-winning short film is an experimental portrait of Yussuf Mume Saleh, an Ethiopian man who has a deep connect…
An Austrian Jew in his nineties lives in the solitude of his wealthy house in Malawi. This film shows us his life in th…
Filmed across several continents, this film reveals how development aid in poor countries reproduce poverty and increas…
In Guimbereru, a small village in Benin that seems lost in time, a young man from the community begins a personal searc…
In northern Uganda, Patricia dedicates her life to helping women to give birth in her small village. This beautiful pho…
For just the way a chicken dies, a woman can be accused of being a witch and excluded from communities in northern Ghan…
As his country heads towards high-risk elections, Emmanuel Botalatala, the Minister of Garbage of Kinshasa (DR Congo), …
This documentary takes us into the culture of the Evuzok, inhabitants of southern Cameroon who through the ritual of th…
After having been part of the Black Panther Party in Kansas City during the 60s, Pete O'Neal had to go into exile in Ta…
A Moroccan man traveled to Spain, to another land, another sea, with the certainty of finding a better city, but he did…
Those who lived first hand the struggle for the independence of Mozambique against the Portuguese colonists during the …
The co-director of this film returns to the humble home of his family in Algeria after 10 years of absence, a reunion t…
Coming out as a product of the sensationalist and shocking "Mondo" film series, this documentary shows with consequent …
After having studied together at the University of Toulouse several years ago a Nigerian man and a French man meet once…
Filmmaker Pierre-Alain Meier travels to Senegal in the hope of understanding the story behind the shipwreck of a 30-yea…
In the midst of the calm and minimalism of an African rural landscape, the days of a young volunteer aid-worker go by t…
The film is an approach to the collective imaginary of the Sahara desert through the only Tuareg immigrant community in…
The film depicts the aspirations and anxieties of a young Algerian smuggler transporting fuel by mule, from his village…
The journey of a blind guitarist in "pacified" Uganda, counterpointed by testimonies from survivors of Joseph Kony's LR…
An orphanage in the village of Chitima, Mozambique, becomes a place of transformation for twenty young women who day by…
A personal journey to interpret the death of a father becomes a revealing experience about the true motivations of trad…
Two cousins from a close-knit rural community have opposing plans to develop their homeland on South Africa's Wild Coas…
Filmed over 9 years, I, AFRIKANER is a challenging and intimate portrait of a filmmaker’s white South African family tr…
When Switzerland became involved in Ruanda in the 1960s, it entailed a dangerous game with the power elite from the sta…
Adam, a young Tanzanian boy persecuted because of his albinism, finds a kindred spirit in Peter, a Canadian man with th…
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