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...

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

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...

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Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.

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Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his fo...

In Algiers in 1993, while the civil war is starting, Mrs Osmane's tenants have to endure her bad tem...

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

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

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Young lion prince Simba, eager to one day become king of the Pride Lands, grows up under the watchfu...

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

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