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.

A famous hotel in Nairobi is about to close. People don't go to that hotel like before. Kakababu and...

The story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahome...

Englishmen fighting Nazis in Africa discover an exotic mystery woman living among the natives and en...

In the midst of the Algerian War in 1957, fighters (fidayounes) resisted French intervention with th...

A young woman preparing for her marriage desperately and courageously journeys to erase her past.

The ruthless Flint, a disabled man, rules an isolated region of Kongo like an omnipotent god, throug...

The man called Obam struggles with the increasingly hostile forces facing each other in a colonial A...
A mystical performance about the sea and the earth based on a Yoruba folk tale.

The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagge...

A Senegalese platoon of soldiers from the French Free Army are returned from combat in France and he...

A doctor searches for the cure for nagana, the sleeping sickness caused by the tsetse fly.

A filmmaker witnesses an act of racist police violence in Paris. He discusses with a friend whether ...

Two Peace Corps volunteers in Africa are framed and put into an oppressive women's prison.

While James More is held captive by terrorists in Somalia, thousands of miles away on the Greenland ...

Drama based loosely on the final years of Kenya game warden and lion-raiser George Adamson's life. A...

Thibaut, 40, raises his 7-year-old son, Gabriel, whom he adopted in Africa, alone. Faced with the cr...

Maamar (Sid Ali Kouiret), a young fisherman working in a small port in western Algeria, is forced to...

In Namibia, a country where sodomy is still a crime and gay relationships are stigmatized against, t...

Domingos is a member of an African liberation movement, arrested by the Portuguese secret police, af...

Entrusted by his father to a group of gold-miners, an albino child embodies all of their hopes.