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

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

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...

It tells the story of a boy Kumasenu who moves to the city of Accra from a small fishing village, en...

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

A film about the difficulty for even the most well-intentioned person to know and respect another cu...

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

Life in the African country of Mali in the 1990s is vividly highlighted in this mild drama. In the s...

A city with its problems. A gang of abandoned children provide for themselves and pose as heroes. Th...

Ali is the image of modern Africa. He happily returns from a football match on his motorbike but a n...

The story of Quincy Bosomfield who is the product of colonial education and has risen to become the ...

Tourneur, a self-proclaimed cinéaste, feuds with Cinema and his gang, who are obsessed with foreign ...
An African mother will do just about anything to protect her child. Bilaly is a simple peasant who i...
Based on a traditional African tale. A king has the habit whilst walking in disguise on the streets ...

Young Africans in Paris face insecurity and vague future. Should they stay in France, or return to t...

At a festival, a chorus of women sing and dance as two stories unfold. In a village, a young women w...

"Yasmina" filmed in 1961 in the middle of the Algerian war tells the story of a little Algerian girl...

Néfissa, a student in Algiers, returns to her village in the south in the summer. Her father wants h...

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