In the early 1920s, Georges Laffont, traumatized by the horrific trench warfare, decides to leave his life behind and travel to West Africa. In the vast territories of Upper Volta he - with the help of Diofo, artist and also survivor of the Great War - try to recruit the villagers as labor for plantations in Ghana. But his adventure leads him to a dead-end, and he comes back to Paris desperate to find his place in the world.

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved t...

An American couple drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.

A fearsome 19th century bandit, Cobra Verde cuts a swath through Brazil until he arrives at the suga...

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

Two adventurers and best friends, Roland and Manu, are the victims of a practical joke that costs Ma...

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

A failed track coach finally finds someone who he believes has what it takes to win. The Comrades Ma...

On the one hand, there’s the desert eating away at the land. The endless dry season, the lack of wat...

This film presents a harsh critique of the Koranic teaching through the tragic story of a small tali...

After a puritan youth, a young English woman discovers her sensuality in North-Africa.

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

A film about the difficulty for even the most well-intentioned person to know and respect another cu...

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

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

A young man having omitted to make the ritual offerings of voodoo, suffers the wrath of the spirits.

On their wedding night, a couple rescue a baby from a garbage bin only to adopt it some years later.

Gugu is being thrown out by her husband Themba, who is apparently having an affair with an ex-girlfr...

Inspector Rizzo in Napoli gets a message from a policeman from South Africa who wants to meet him. I...

Rabie is a kid from Sétif in 1980, trying to collect money to buy a wheelchair for his paralyzid sis...