Timbuktu

Timbuktu

Just outside of the Malian city of Timbuktu, now occupied by militant Islamic rebels who impose the Sharia on civilians and inconvenience their...

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Waiting for Happiness

Waiting for Happiness

Before immigrating to the West, Abdallah travels to the coastal city of Nouadhibou, Mauritania, to visit his mother. Although he grew up there...

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Bamako

Bamako

Caught in the stranglehold of debt and structural adjustment, Africa is fighting for its survival. In the face of disaster, representatives of...

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Black Tea

Black Tea

Aya, a young Ivorian woman in her early thirties, says no on her wedding day, to everyone’s astonishment. After emigrating to Asia, she works in a...

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8

8

8 shorts centered around 8 themes directed by 8 famous film directors involved and sharing their opinion on progress, on the set-backs and the...

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Stories on Human Rights

Stories on Human Rights

20 short films about human rights.

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Abouna

Abouna

Two boys (Tamir & Amine) awake one morning to find that their father has abandoned their family. Shocked, they begin to misbehave. While...

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The Game

The Game

Ahmed’s father has only a day with his wife and son before he must return to war. With haunting, innocent cruelty, the children play games that...

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Dry Season

Dry Season

Chad, 2006. After a forty-year civil war, the radio announces the government has just amnestied the war criminals. Outraged by the news, Gumar...

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Documenta X - Die Filme

Documenta X - Die Filme

Life on Earth

Life on Earth

Just before the turn of the 21st century, Dramane, a Malian who lives in Paris, returns to his family's African village to visit his father. After...

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Rostov-Luanda

Rostov-Luanda

Sissako visits a war-torn Angola after thirty years of war in search of a friend and thereby through interviews reflects on the lost utopias of a...

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Tiya's Dream

Tiya's Dream

In Ethiopia, in a small country school, children have a lesson on the Millennium Development Goals. But one of the pupils, Tiya, is distracted, she...

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October

October

Ira wanders around the streets of Moscow. She's pregnant with the child of Adrissa, an african student.

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Africa Dreaming

Africa Dreaming

A series of six dramatic shorts, each from a different African country and all on the broad theme of "love in Africa."

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Al Zubarah

Al Zubarah

Al Zubarah tells the story of life in the old coastal city of Al Zubarah, one of Qatar’s most significant historical sites. From the break of...

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Little Men

Little Men

Little Men is about two sympathetic losers with good looks, about groovy tunes and dry slapstick humour.

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Life in Al Barr

Life in Al Barr

Shot in glimmering black-and-white reminiscent of classic silver-nitrate cinema, Sissako's 9-minute film was photographed over the course of seven...

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Molom: A Legend of Mongolia

Molom: A Legend of Mongolia

Molom, the shaman, takes Yonden, a child lost among wolves, under his protection, and walks with him through the Mongolian steppe.

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Sabriya

Sabriya

This film explores the impact of the modern world on the traditional male society of the Maghreb. It is a film about men who prefer to live life as...

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