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...

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.

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

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

Beginning of the 20th century in the east of Sudan. Tajouj is the beautiful cousin of a young tribes...

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

Set in the 1800s among the Berbers of North Africa, this 1997 Algerian feature concerns a noble wido...

At the outbreak of the Second World War, two friends, Mokrane and Menach, abruptly interrupt their s...

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.

PK, an English orphan terrorized for his family's political beliefs in Africa, turns to his only fri...

An Italian in East Africa having an affair with a coloured woman realises that his treatment of her ...

A black and a white woman meets in Dar es Salam because of their men, and starts a friendship, despi...

This excellent feature-length documentary - the story of the imperialist colonization of Africa - is...

Based on the experiences of Agu, a child fighting in the civil war of a West African country. Follow...

In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charg...

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

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...