"Bamboula": this word was chosen in the 1980s for a chocolate cookie well known to children at the time. In 1994, he sponsored an Ivorian village set up in the Port-Saint-Père zoological park south of Nantes, where children and adults lived in a zoo to offer their folklore as a show to visitors. This documentary film, narrated by Jean-Pascal Zadi, gives a voice to those who lived in this African safari and to those who fought for their dignity

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.

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

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

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

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

Back home in Bujumbura with a Parisian diploma in his pocket and expecting to walk into a civil serv...
Based on a traditional African tale. A king has the habit whilst walking in disguise on the streets ...

A sorcerer (played by the director himself) controls all activities in a village. Manipulating the d...

A dissolute man whose wife cheats on him seeks revenge to preserve his honor.

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

In 1994, at over seventy years old, Gilberte and William Sportisse, threatened by the FIS, arrived f...

The image of French prisoners was very often evoked in Algerian cinema and literature, but until tod...

An action thriller which lends a multinational depiction of contemporary Africa and centers on a loc...

Filmmaker Karim Aïnouz decides to take a boat, cross the Mediterranean, and embark on his first jour...

It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years ...

Between 1954-1962, one hundred to three hundred young French people refused to participate in the Al...

Film describes the miserable existence of a charcoal-burner who is barely able to feed his family. H...