In the Mossi culture, one of the rites attending the birth of a child and its induction as a new member of the community involves the burial of the placenta. The space in which the placenta is buried is called 'Zan Boko' - a phrase which connotes the religious, cultural and affective relations that bind the child to the land and that embraces the notions of 'rootedness' and 'belonging'. Kaboré tells the story of Tinga, who resists the encroaching urbanization of his native territory. The specific rhythms and vision of the rural community, including its values, social relationship, and individual & collective destinies, are altered when a city is planted on the edge of an ancient native village.

Following a plane crash a group of schoolboys find themselves on a deserted island. They appoint a l...

Irish seaman Vic Brennan persuades his Dublin family to finance a truck-hauling business in the remo...

Bejo, 12 years old, lives with his brother Mario, a sculptor. Having heard the news on the radio his...

David Locke is a world-weary American journalist who has been sent to cover a conflict in northern A...

The circle of life continues for Simba, now fully grown and in his rightful place as the king of Pri...

The tumultuous life of Arthur Rimbaud, the cursed poet, who completed his masterwork at the age of t...

An epic about anthropologists who hunt and capture pygmies for study back in Europe, in an attempt t...

The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, a...

Young lion prince Simba, eager to one day become king of the Pride Lands, grows up under the watchfu...

A cast of unknown performers are used in this drama about child soldiers fighting a war in an unname...

Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers are worlds apart. At a ...

Seasoned adventurer and treasure hunter Dirk Pitt, a former Navy SEAL, sets out for the African dese...

An African diplomat who has returned to his native country after a long stay in Europe realizes that...

The story of Quincy Bosomfield who is the product of colonial education and has risen to become the ...
An African mother will do just about anything to protect her child. Bilaly is a simple peasant who i...

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...

At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat capta...

Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.

An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sie...

A West African pig farmer has a religious vision, wherein he is told that he'll be Magloire the Firs...