Aïssa Maïga
Aïssa Maïga is a Senegal-born French actress, director, writer, producer, and activist. Maïga has worked with major auteurs like Michael Haneke, Abderrahmane Sissako and Michel Gondry, and recently starred in Chiwetel Ejiofor’s directorial debut.
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Neneh Superstar
Born to dance, Neneh is a 12-year-old black girl who dreams of entering the Paris Opera Ballet School.
Le pharaon, le sauvage et la princesse
Three tales, three ages, three worlds. At the time of Ancient Egypt, a young king becomes the first black pharaoh to deserve the hand of his loved one. During the French Middle Ages, a mysterious wild boy steals from the rich to give to the poor.
The Tower
Eleven-year-old Wardi’s great-grandfather leaves behind a will suggesting looking to the past to find the future. Searching the house, Wardi finds out about her Palestinian homeland from family memories.
Il a déjà tes yeux
Paul is married to Sali. Everything would be fine if they could get a child. Until the day when Sali receives the call that they have been waiting for so long: their adoption file is approved. He is adorable, he is 6 months old, his name is Benjamin. He is blond with blue eyes and white. They - are black.
Corniche Kennedy
A young group of teenagers enjoying their summer on the beach of Marseille France get involved in some drugs trafficking and investigated by police .
Bienvenue à Marly-Gomont
1975. When Seyolo Zantoko, a doctor from the Congo who has managed, along with his family, to flee tyranny, is hired by the mayor of a small town in northern France, he begins a struggle to adapt to a new life and gain the trust of the prejudiced villagers.
L'écume des jours
A woman suffers from an unusual illness caused by a flower growing in her lungs.
Aya de Yopougon
Love stories in Yopougon, a neighborhood of the Ivory Coast capital.
Sur la piste du Marsupilami
When reporter Dan Geraldo arrives in Palombia to hunt for a scoop, he never suspects that he is about to make an incredible discovery...
Aujourd'hui
Satché is about to die. He decides to make his last day on this world the day of his life.
L'avocat
A new lawyer, looking to establish himself, wins a difficult case and deals with the unforeseen consequences that may destroy him.
Diamant 13
A cop goes up against his lifelong friend, who has become one of the city's biggest drug traffickers.
Les insoumis
A grizzled Parisian detective is sent to an outpost town in Southern France to dismantle a gang of killers which has freed a notorious criminal. The detective inherits a team of unmotivated and dishevelled detectives, and he makes connections nobody else ever saw because nobody else bothered to look.
Prête-moi ta main
Luis (Alain Chabat), 43, happily single, mollycoddled by his family (mum and 5 sisters, known as the G7), has a successful career and an easy life. Tired of taking care of him, the G7 decide he should get married within a year. The problem is Luis doesn't want any kind of serious relationship since they ruined his first true love.
Paris, je t'aime
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life.
Je vais bien, ne t'en fais pas
A 19-year-old searches for her twin brother after he runs away from home, following a fight with their father.
Bamako
Caught in the stranglehold of debt and structural adjustment, Africa is fighting for its survival. In the face of disaster, representatives of African society bring an action against international financial institutions. The trial takes place in Bamako, in the yard of a house, among its inhabitants.
Les poupées russes
Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle reunite.
Caché
Hidden is a film by Austrian director Michael Haneke. A suspenseful thriller with bloody elements from French history. A family man receives a video of him and his family yet there is nothing saying who it is from. This continues and it turns out to be someone that has know him for a while.
Marie-Line
Marie-Line works as a chief cleaner, at night, in a mall. She leads a team of 3-5 women, most of them being illegal aliens. Marie-Line is a hard woman with a golden heart, and she's in love with dead singer Joe Dassin. When her fascist husband walks out on her, whe tries to find love through ads.
Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages
A series of events unfold like a chain reaction, all stemming from a minor event that brings the film's five characters together. Set in Paris, France, Anne is an actress whose boyfriend Georges photographs the war in Kosovo. Georges' brother, Jean, is looking for the entry code to Georges' apartment.
La revanche de Lucy
After Polish-born writer-director Janusz Mrozowski, a French resident for the past 30 years, made a series of 30-minute films based on African writings, he was approached by Africans to do a cinematic survey of past events in African history.