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.
Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his fo...
The inspiring life story of the late photojournalist, artist and activist Dan Eldon, who abandoned a...
A couple sets up an African game preserve, only to have British and Italian armies fight over the wa...
In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the milita...
A gently humorous look at otherness and xenophobia in modern day German with this tale of a black Be...
Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the s...
An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sie...
On the one hand, there’s the desert eating away at the land. The endless dry season, the lack of wat...
A failed track coach finally finds someone who he believes has what it takes to win. The Comrades Ma...
Samba (Bakary Sangare) has returned unannounced to his home village, bringing with him a suitcase fu...
The Randolph family have a tradition of working in the British colonial service. Clive comes home fr...
After a young boy dies of meningitis, Napoko Diarrha (Yaméogo) is accused of eating his soul because...
Fatima and the group of her high school friends will get their bachelor degrees. A question arises i...
A fearsome 19th century bandit, Cobra Verde cuts a swath through Brazil until he arrives at the suga...
Bizet's Carmen gets a modern adaptation. Seducting, provocating, sensual. All the ingredients for a ...
PK, an English orphan terrorized for his family's political beliefs in Africa, turns to his only fri...
A slick serial seducer bets his friends that he can bed three old flames in six weeks, in this risqu...
Inspector Rizzo in Napoli gets a message from a policeman from South Africa who wants to meet him. I...
Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells h...
Two adventurers and best friends, Roland and Manu, are the victims of a practical joke that costs Ma...