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...

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Inspector Rizzo in Napoli gets a message from a policeman from South Africa who wants to meet him. I...

The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, a...

A cast of unknown performers are used in this drama about child soldiers fighting a war in an unname...

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

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

Two adventurers and best friends, Roland and Manu, are the victims of a practical joke that costs Ma...

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

“Poussières de Juillet”, produced in 1967 by Hachemi El-Chérif, is taken from a poem by Kateb Yacine...

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

Two men of different backgrounds lose their respective jobs, setting off a series of events that bri...