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...

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

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

Run escapes... He just killed the Prime Minister of his country. In order to do so, he had to act as...

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

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

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

A failed track coach finally finds someone who he believes has what it takes to win. The Comrades Ma...

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

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

This film presents a harsh critique of the Koranic teaching through the tragic story of a small tali...

After a puritan youth, a young English woman discovers her sensuality in North-Africa.

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

A couple sets up an African game preserve, only to have British and Italian armies fight over the wa...
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...

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