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- 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 challenges our planet faces today.
- A collection of stories about and images of our world, offering an immersion to the core of what it means to be human.
- Through the plights of seven different children, seven cruel destinies unfold, as the unknown innocents who share the same sensitivities and desires struggle for survival, understanding--and above all--love, in an apathetic grown-up world.
- Footage shot in and around the Sahara Desert, accompanied only by a spoken creation myth and the songs of Leonard Cohen.
- An American mercenary, the sole survivor of a plane crash, has to run the gauntlet across Africa, battling with the living dead.
- When a woman shelters a group of girls from suffering female genital mutilation, she starts a conflict that tears her village apart.
- A look at the fast disappearing tribal customs of North Africa.
- A small village in Burkina Faso. The story focuses on Bila, a ten year old boy who befriends an old woman, Sana. Everybody calls her 'Witch' but Bila himself calls her 'Yaaba' (grandmother). When Bila's cousin Nopoko gets sick it is Sana's medicine who saves her.
- Four women from different regions develop friendships during a bus journey across West Africa, as they accomplish an everyday journey while facing the universal challenge of being independent women.
- "The Prophet and The Space Aliens" follows Rael, who after an alleged encounter with extraterrestrials - that appointed him the "last prophet" - became the founder and leader of the world's biggest UFO religion.
- Samba Traore returns to his village flush with funds. Soon enough he manages to charm the beautiful Saratou into marrying him and, along with another friend, builds the first bar their village has ever seen. But his conscience keeps nagging him and the police are on the lookout for the "gas station murderer."
- A man investigating his son's death learns some horrific truths about the pharmaceutical industry.
- When Lena and Ulli start the engine of their old Land Rover, Lady Terés, they have a plan: to drive from Hamburg to South Africa in six months. What they don't know yet is that they won't ever get there. Two totally different characters, jammed together in two square meters of space for almost two years, they experience what it really means to travel: leaving your comfort zone for good. Starting in Morocco, they quickly dive into the life of locals they meet on the road: Jamal, a Moroccan Berber who lives with his dromedaries in the Sahara, Ziza, a Mauritanian musician who fights against suppression from the government, Mame Sy, a mother who set up a private school for the poorest of the poor in Mauritania - and many more. Their journey leads them through the vibrant green canyons of Guinea, the scorching heat of Mali, and the amazing surf of Sierra Leone and Liberia. Everywhere they are, the two Germans make contact with the locals and demonstrate that real travelling is about more than plain sightseeing. But their long journey doesn't spare them the dark side of travelling: they are also confronted by corruption, sickness and even death. Setting out to discover a continent, their trip leads them down a very different road. One they did not expect: the journey to their true inner selves.
- In the early 1920s, Georges Laffont, traumatized by the horrific trench warfar, decides to leave his life behind and travel to West Africa into the vast territories of Upper Volta in the company of Diofo, artist and also survivor of the Great War. From village to village, Georges uses Diofo's talents as a griot to recruit the villagers as labour for plantations in Ghana. But this adventure leads him to a dead-end, and he comes back to Nantes where his brother Marcel, a war invalid, lives with their mother's. After the war in Europe, life went on without him. Georges will desperately try to find his place, with the help of Helene, a sign language teacher with whom he will have a tumultuous relationship, and his family, that he selfishly left behind. He will finally attempt to heal their wounds...
- Yacouba Sawadogo, an illiterate farmer from Burkina Faso has transformed the lives of thousands of people across West Africa. Over cinematic reconstruction Sawadogo tells his incredible story of his battle with nature and man.
- The story of two families - one in North America and one in Burkina Faso, Africa - that have joined together since 2004 to build the Paradise Orphanage in Kaya, Burkina Faso, without the help of government or public agencies.
- Every year the most beautiful girl will be sacrificed to the Python God. When a girl named Sia is the next to be sacrificed, she hides in the house of the village idiot, a man who goes around shouting hyper-aggressive criticisms against everything. Sia is found by the soldiers but the army commander had for some time prepared a revolt against the emperor and saves Sia on the way. Will Sia reveals the terrible secret she learned about the Python God ?
- In a hospital in Burkina Faso, a man infected by HIV.
- The teachers Beyond deploying their profound commitment which goes above and beyond their primary job requirements. They have also turned teaching into a genuine adventure, changing the destinies of their pupils .
- A look at the disastrous effects a rain flood has on a termite community.
- A mushroom biologist, a rapper, a PhD candidate, a National champion, and more, the warrior spirit of Princess Yennenga live on in Burkina Faso.
- In 2012, jihadists took control of Northern Mali, imposing one of the harshest interpretations of sharia law in recent years and, crucially for Mali, banning music. Radio stations were destroyed, instruments were burned and overnight, Mali's musicians were forced into hiding or exile where many remain even now. Follow these musicians as they fight to keep music alive. Featuring rare footage of the jihadists, a glimpse at life in refugee camps and the perilous journeys home to war-ravaged cities, THEY WILL HAVE TO KILL US FIRST is a tale of courage in the face of conflict as Malian musicians refuse to give up the fight for their right to sing.
- A Nigerien peasant comes looking for work in Essakane, a dusty gold mine in Northeast Burkina Faso, where he hopes to forget the past that haunts him.
- A 13-year-old boy is sent from his home in France to live with extended family in rural Burkina Faso.
- A bee-keeper initiates fight against the society of consumption for saving the bees.
- Run escapes... He just killed the Prime Minister of his country. In order to do so, he had to act as if he was a crazy man, wandering through the city. His life comes back by flashes ; his childhood with Tourou when his dream was to become a rain miracle-worker, his adventures with Gladys the eater, and his past as a young member of militia, in the heart of the politic and military conflict in Ivory Coast. All those lives, Run didn't choose them. Everytime, he felt in by running from another life. That's the reason why his name's Run.
- A group of young women from the outskirts of Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, meet at the feminist education centre to study to become car mechanics. Ouaga Girls is a poetic coming-of-age story of sisterhood, life choices, and the strife of finding your own path.
- In a little village from Burkina Faso, a white undertaker investigates on the relationship between death and humour through a specific local custom during funerals: Inter ethnic joking relationship.
- A coming of age story of a young teenage couple as they struggle with an unwanted pregnancy and the pressures it brings. Their decisions separately and jointly have severe and dramatic consequences.
- Bintou is from Burkina Faso and loves to lead a modern lifestyle. She dreams of becoming a famous dressmaker.
- Poverty and misery are rife in Gourga, a village in the Sahel. The inhabitants must choose: stay and await international assistance or leave for more fertile regions in the country.
- Broadcast from Indio, California, The Coachella Live: Curated featured three streams, 80+ bands, and 72 hours of content. 2019 included traveling tales from headliners and fan favorites across six continents, highlights from the Coachella Music and Arts Festival's two weekends, including in-studio interviews, artist commentary, original documentaries, animation short films and more. A Live viewership of 117 Million on YouTube for both weekends combined broke all YouTube records. Coachella Live: Curated was nominated for consideration for an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Informational Series or Special" by the Television Academy.
- Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène reminisces about his career and discusses the craft of his films and novels. Topics of discussion are also the role of the artist in society and the politics of decolonisation.
- Explores the rhythm and ritual life in the rural environment of six West African countries: Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Togo, Benin, and Senegal.
- There is a motorcycle race in Burkina Faso. The young Ãlias builds his own motorcycle, alone, with bare hands, from recycled parts collected in the dump sites of his region. It is with this motorcycle that he is going to undertake the great journey to the capital and to make a commitment to the race of his life.
- This story unclothes the consequences of some decisions we make in life, probably On A Bench By The Lakeside. Based on true events that occurred somehow somewhere in Burkina Faso.
- On their ladyfriends' insistence, their "Tchiza", three friends go on an extramarital trip out of Ouagadougou, a fake mission to Abidjian being the perfect alibi. But it all goes downhill when they learn that the plane they should have been in has crashed down. How can they come back home when they're supposed to be dead? Their wives' vengeance will burn the ground they walk on.
- « Traces, women's imprints » is a film that ventures to the discovery of three grandmothers kassenas (Burkina Faso,) their granddaughter, and the exclusively feminine art of this region's mural paintings. Between these women's portraits and a traditional art form, « Traces » is a painting on paintings that reflects upon transmission, education and memory in the context of a world in mutation.
- A feature-length documentary about the plight of women in Burkina Faso and West Africa.
- The Cutting Tradition - Insight into female genital mutilation. This moving and sensitive documentary highlights, in a non judgmental way, the complex social, religious, cultural and economic issues which underpin the ongoing practice of female genital mutilation, or FGM. This film deliberately raises questions that are critical in understanding why FGM continues to be very common to this day in both rich and poor communities, despite being illegal in many countries of origin. It is estimated that up to 140 million women and girls have already undergone some form of female genital mutilation with a further three million added annually.
- This documentary portrays a ritual among the people of an Upper Volta community in Africa, where fifteen days of mourning pass between the death of their king and the introduction of his successor.
- A dwarf born into an intolerant village meets a farmer who teaches her about love, friendship and sacrifice.
- Autrement (In another way) is a documentary that explores the region known as the "least developed" the world: West Africa. There is something extraordinary happening here: social groups and individuals who imagine other ways of thinking and acting. Is there an option to the dominant global model of development? Is it possible to do science differently? Can we create and innovate in places with limited financial and material resources? Scientists, farmers, teachers and students, sociologists, engineers, doctors, traditional and contemporary dancers raise their voice: We can do it in another way! Africa is alive, dancing at their own pace, and offers hope to other societies willing to wake up. Autrement is a "face to face" with Africa through inspiring projects: from workshops of DNA with kitchen products to acclaimed contemporary video-dance , coming through the sacred groves and other local initiatives that show, this co-production in Mexico, Benin, Malaysia, a reality of diversity, colonization, resistance and creation.
- ABC compares an experience of West Africa and Bengal to that of contemporary Scotland. Using found archives of Super 8, photographic and fine art material the film explores what it is like to grow up as a practitioner of Scottish culture.
- Documentary following the 2011 Tour du Faso cycle race in Burkina Faso. Focusing on local stars and a German team.
- European artists frame the openness of the world in works of art. In gold mines in Africa, slaves dig for precious metal, and the story of the camps in Bosnia can only be told by those who survived them. This documentary epic brings the value of art into direct confrontation with its own extinction. It searches for a lost ring, a sense of connection, mapping at the same time the brokenness of the 90s. And the circle closes fifteen years after the first scene was filmed, 1989 - 2004. This circle is a documentary odyssey that encounters its nemesis in a picaresque philosopher who contemplates nothingness, and an essay that must step past the graves in Burkina Faso and Bosnia, the circle of the life work of the author who has discovered his intimate Ithaca somewhere between Slovenia and Scotland, a hideaway from the nihilism of the ring, embodying death, gold and apathy, the symbols of the world that survives us.
- Since the dawn of times, the inhabitants of a small village in Burkina Faso had been living with gold. But today, there is no longer any, a multinational company exploiting all natural resources. The film follows the struggle of the local population to denounce this injustice and claim their dignity.
- This documentary is about the struggle for independence in the African land of Guinea-Bissau.