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- Three protagonists, one city... Coming from different backgrounds, they pass each other but they never meet, though, the effect of one incident will drastically alter the lives of the three of them! Three characters, caught at a moment when their lives fell over, in just a matter of seconds... knocked down by a chain of other's actions/reactions...
- The country has changed a lot in the absence of the father Wahid Haydar and the daughter Sofia, returning to Tunisia after a long stay in West Africa and after being separated from her French mother for ten years, the young Soufia arrives in Tunis heavily steeped in her African heritage, feeling trapped, now claims her way back to her mother.
- After his brothers death a man plans his funeral but things don't go as planned as his relatives have to come to terms with the fact that he wasn't the man everyone thought he was
- Three Veils is the story of three young Muslim women whose lives unexpectedly intersect as they deal with issues of sexuality, tradition, and identity. To the outside world, they seem to be typical young college students dealing with the challenges of growing up and finding ones place in the world. But each girl has a story that, behind the veil, is brimming with desire.
- The Film "Kinshasa Symphony" shows how people living in one of the most chaotic cities in the world have managed to forge one of the most complex systems of human cooperation ever invented: a symphony orchestra. It is a film about the Congo, about the people of Kinshasa and about music.
- 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.
- Ramata is a spellbindingly beautiful woman in her fifties. She has been married for thirty years now to Matar Samb, a very rich man, a former prosecutor who is now Minister of Justice. They live in Les Almadies, an elegant neighborhood of Dakar. Ngor Ndong is twenty-five. He is young, strong, mysterious and homeless. He is an occasional petty crook, known to the police. One evening, in a taxi that Ngor Ndong just happens to be driving, Ramata, reticent at first, finally agrees to follow this young man half her age to the Copacabana, a dive in the seediest part of Dakar.
- A young career woman uses pheromones and her highly developed sense of smell to find her rapist.
- The portrait of an invisible generation. A punk ballad told from the point of view of 10 youngsters with stories that interconnect, not with their destinies but with their concepts: the trip as a way of reinvention, questioning happiness and the system, evasion, moral limits, madness, decadence and love.
- While in high school class, a French teenager of Moroccan origin loses his parents in a car accident. A few days later, social services learn that he was adopted and that his natural parents are his aunt and uncle who live in a small village in the Sahara ... He decided to join them.
- Policarpo is a chauvinistic patriot, a major who tries to find solutions for Brazilian problems using only the resources of his own country. His visionary and idealistic temperament is behind his strange ideas about how to build a great nation.
- Adaptation of award winning novel by Marlene van Niekerk. "Triomf' is about the ultimate dysfunctional family, the Benades, poor white working class Afrikaner trailer trash on the eve of the country's first democratic election.
- The writer died last summer ,this is his legacy RIP Laurent de Bonnerive!!!.
- Between 1947 and 1950, more than 80 000 Greek citizens were imprisoned on the isle of Makronisos (Greece) in reeducation camps created to 'fight the spread of communism'. Among these exiles were a number of writers and poets, including Yannis Ritsos and Tassos Livaditis. Despite the deprivation and torture, these prisoners succeeded in composing poems, which describe their struggle for survival in this world of internment. These texts, some of them buried in the camps, were later found. «Like Lions of stone at the gateway of night» blends these poetic writings with the reeducation propaganda constantly piped through the camps' loudspeakers. Long tracking shots take us on a trance-like journey through the camp ruins, interrupted along the way by segments from photographic archives. A cinematic essay, which revives the memory of forgotten ruins and a battle lost.
- A story of journeys and spaces: The journey from Russia to France... from school to church, between social hotels... The space between mother and daughter.
- An upper class young Frenchman meets an African girl from Mali. Their friends and family put pressure on them to break up. Set in Paris and Bamako with an all-star cast, this musical explodes with 9 original songs and 27 African hits.
- A Congonese king arrives in Brussels in search of his long-lost daughter.
- When a group of charming teenagers ring the bell of their high school headmistress (Carmen Maura) with a big bouquet of flowers and a birthday present, we are far from thinking that they are the protagonist of a machiavellian plan. Alice Nabat invites this group of jolly young people to have a drink, not knowing that once the door has closed behind them, they will become her tormentors. What is their purpose? As the plot slowly unfolds and thickens, we learn that they have been cheating in class all year and that they feel more powerful than the "authority" that they are challenging. They actually want to steal the answers to the Baccalaureat (French A Level), to order to pass the precious diploma without any effort on their part. A blackmail of insidious violence happens throughout the night between these "new barbarians" and their terrorized headmistress, hostage to their uncontrolled and threatening actions.
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- The action is set in an unnamed African country, where a brutal government's death squad commanded by Colonel Koulbou (Felkissam Mahamat) is active. A journalist, Adoum (Youssouf Djaoro), having obtained his passport wants to travel abroad so to be able to report on the situation in his country; but while at the airport, a compromising letter is found on him. Adoum is thrown in one of Koulbou's jails. All hope seems lost, but Adoum finds unexpected help from Koulbou's estranged wife, Hawa.
- Marin lives alone in a hut in the middle of the grand extents of Argentina. A few visits sometimes break his solitude. The meeting with a foal gives a human dimension to this wild tale. A western without shots nor fights.
- A woman returns to Geneva after studying abroad and soon finds herself in a relationship with a street vendor.
- Pierre, a famous novelist, needs a presence in order to write. Vincent is hired for a single mission: staying focused on Pierre's writing. But what is really the subject of Pierre's novel?
- A murder sets in motion a series of tragedies that find their way to the city morgue's Dr. Arturo Fernandez. Physically and emotionally isolated, Arturo develops an intimate relationship with the personal lives of his cases, forcing him to confront his connection to the living and the dead. This dark, serpentine tale offers a richly textured rendering of Ecuador's capital.
- Women workers in textiles talk about their works while being focused by six artists and film makers in 5 countries. Who are they? Why do they engage in textile? We take time to listen, to see, and let the film mingles the sights. We are looking beyond what we have already known, wish to meet women who have their fingers on the pulse of textile industry. The film wonders through a world factory, along with the women, to labor, to live, to revolt unexpectedly. The picture of women and the work changes by then.
- From Marciac to Conakry, the film focuses on the footsteps of six teenagers, students of the Marciac jazz college, united by their passion for music and their thirst for discovering the world.
- Because jazz is the miraculous product of the horror of slavery, Youssou N'Dour returned to the slave route and the music they created, in search of new inspiration. Accompanied by the blind Swiss pianist Moncef Genoud and the Director of the Gorée House of Slaves Museum, Joseph N'Diaye, the Senegalese singer wrote new songs during this initiatory voyage which took him to the USA then to Europe. At Gorée, an island just off the Senegalese coast and symbol of the slave trade, his memorable concert marked the end of this quest and the start of a new challenge: making today's generation aware of the tragedy of slavery, the importance of not forgetting and the need for reconciliation.
- At the Garibaldi leisure center in Montreuil, the director of the center has decided to introduce children to a commentary on the fact of cinema. Every Wednesday, professionals come to talk to them about the history of documentaries, fiction, framing, special effects, the script. As the year progresses, a small group of particularly characteristic children is formed. The supervisors decide to extend the experience by making their own short film.