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...

1956. Algeria is a French colony. Fernand and Helene are madly in love. Fernand is an activist, figh...

In West Africa, Colombine runs a dispensary in risky bushland. A strong-willed, whiskey-drinking rel...

A Senegalese storyteller travels to Belgium and observes the lives of African expatriates in Europe....

Writer and filmmaker Assia Djebar explores Algerian history, the psychological impact of war, and po...

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In a windy Somali village, a newly assembled family must navigate between their different aspiration...

Berlin at the end of the 19th Century. Alexander Hoffmann is an ambitious PhD student of Ethnology. ...

A legend that begins with the magic words: "Once upon a time." Once upon a time, there was a little ...

Tahar, son of a wealthy family, is trying to preserve his privileged status despite the social chang...

A doctor searches for the cure for nagana, the sleeping sickness caused by the tsetse fly.
An American woman doctor comes to Tanzania to work at a hospital for the mentally disturbed, with he...

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Gabrielle Picard (Elda Hall) and Pierre Dupont (Rupert Julian) are lovers in a small French village ...

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A magician seeks vengeance upon the man who paralyzed him and the illegitimate daughter he sired wit...

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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...