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...

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...

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

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...

A woman has a close bond with her beloved Algeriann grandfather, who protected her from a toxic home...

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

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

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

Juju Stories tackles juju in contemporary Lagos through three stories. In Love Potion, by Omonua, an...

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

The tumultuous life of Arthur Rimbaud, the cursed poet, who completed his masterwork at the age of t...