The film shows Catherine Destivelle's trip to Dogon Country, in Mali, where she will make spectacular free solo rock climbing ascents in the sun-warmed cliffs of Bandiagara. Destivelle is accompanied on this trip by a friend climber, Lucien Abbet. A film by Pierre-Antoine Hiroz produced in 1987 by Paradoxe and also featuring Tidjani Koné, Ibrahim Dolo, and the Dogon inhabitants of the Bandiagara Escarpment. The film won the Genziana D'argento for best free climbing film at the Trento Film Festival in 1987.
Short documentary commissioned by the magazine Présence Africaine. From the question "Why is the Afr...
"A Walk to Beautiful" tells the story of five women in Ethiopia suffering from devastating childbirt...
In February 1966, Pierre Mazeaud and Lucien Berardini attempted a difficult first ascent to one of t...
Tarzan was a small orphan who was raised by an ape named Kala since he was a child. He believed that...
In 1928, Lady Heath became the first person to fly solo from Cape Town to London. Eighty-five years ...
On an island where religion bars women from playing soccer, the Queens resist cultural norms and cha...
A true film account of a three-month safari in the big game hunting areas of the Dark Continent, und...
Alex, Marty, and other zoo animals find a way to escape from Madagascar when the penguins reassemble...
It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years ...
Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry ...
Deep in the African jungle, a baby named George, the sole survivor of a plane crash, is raised by go...
Roar follows a family who are attacked by various African animals at the secluded home of their keep...
The Year of Return is an initiative of the government of Ghana that is intended to encourage African...
Joan Wilder is thrust back into a world of murder, chases, foreign intrigue... and love. This time o...
Summoned from an ashram in Tibet, Ace finds himself on a perilous journey into the jungles of Africa...
Mysterious Wakanda lies in the darkest heart of Africa, unknown to most of the world. An isolated la...
An action epic that explores the origins of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force (better known as Master Shake...
A fearsome 19th century bandit, Cobra Verde cuts a swath through Brazil until he arrives at the suga...