Maamar (Sid Ali Kouiret), a young fisherman working in a small port in western Algeria, is forced to sell his goods at a discount every day to Si Khelifa (Abdelhalim Rais), owner of many trucks and a cannery where the wives work fishermen. He has a strange encounter. As he returns from fishing, bassinet in hand, he witnesses a car accident. Indeed, a car hits a tree with a beautiful girl “Hayat” on board who has lost consciousness. Maamar pulls her out of the car and saves her. It is at this precise moment that he realizes the existence of another world. As if awakened from a long sleep, he realizes that this exploitation can no longer continue. He leaves his village and his wife Laâlia (Fatima Belhadj) on a whim for three years. He finds himself in the capital which he leaves to return to his village and carry out a saving action...

Irish seaman Vic Brennan persuades his Dublin family to finance a truck-hauling business in the remo...

Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the s...

A USSR animated short adapted from one of Jomo Kenyatta's fables.

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childh...

A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world an...

A young mute woman is raped and becomes pregnant, with disastrous consequences within her family. Th...

Shirish and Geeta run a rickshaw driver over and have dramatically opposing reactions to the tragedy...

In the midst of the Algerian war for independence, a group of fighters is trapped in the mountains, ...

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

Two boys with different experiences and goals meet up in a sprawling African market. One is looking ...

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

A gently humorous look at otherness and xenophobia in modern day German with this tale of a black Be...

In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the milita...
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...

Life in the African country of Mali in the 1990s is vividly highlighted in this mild drama. In the s...

At a festival, a chorus of women sing and dance as two stories unfold. In a village, a young women w...

Back home in Bujumbura with a Parisian diploma in his pocket and expecting to walk into a civil serv...