Titles from
Burkina Faso BF
Buud Yam
In an early 19th century African village, Wend Kuuni – a young man, lives with his adopted family after his mother was killed as a witch. When Pughneere – his adopted sister – becomes ill, the villagers suspect Wend Kuuni. In order to save Pughneere's life (and his own) he must set out on a journey to find a healer.
Yeelen
A young man with magical powers journeys to his uncle to request help in fighting his sorcerer father.
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.
Samba Traoré
During a robbery at a petrol station in town, one of the accomplices is shot dead. The other, Samba Traoré, flees with the loot: a suitcase full of banknotes. After years away, he returns to his native village. Life has gone on as usual, and Saratou is as beautiful as he remembers her.
Wend Kuuni
In pre-colonial times a peddler crossing the savanna discovers a child lying unconscious in the bush. When the boy comes to, he is mute and cannot explain who he is. The peddler leaves him with a family in the nearest village.
Yam Daabo
Poverty and misery are rife in Gourga, a village in the Sahel. The inhabitants must choose: stay and await international assistance or leave for more fertile regions in the country.
Moolaadé
When a woman shelters a group of girls from suffering female genital mutilation, she starts a conflict that tears her village apart.
Desebagato
It's payday and Adama, a factory worker, counts her meager salary trying to reconcile her needs with those of her family back in the village.
Femmes aux yeux ouverts
Portraits of contemporary African women from four West African nations: Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal and Benin.
Guimba: un tyran, une époque
The movie shows the rise and fall of a cruel and despotic village chief Guimba, and his son Jangine in a fictional village in the Sahel of Mali.
Jours de tourmentes
Young people call into question their village's customs and create an agricultural co-operative.
Keïta! L'héritage du griot
It is an ordinary afternoon for young Mabo Keïta, at home, in Burkina Faso (West Africa). While his parents are taking a nap, he reads a schoolbook on the front porch when a stranger - an elderly man carrying his own hammock - appears for an unexpected visit.
Laada
Do and Demba wish to become part of the modernisation process, and subsequently leave for the nearby city to make their fortune – a striking allegory of conflict of African rural tradition and western values.
Laafi - Tout va bien
After obtaining their Secondary School diplomas, some young people plan to continue their education but are not sure which area to choose.
Le sang des parias
A young student from a family which considers itself "progressive" cannot marry the boy she loves as he comes from the caste of the smiths who are viewed as pariahs.
Paweogo
Bila, a young peasant, decides to go to Ivory Coast to work and is asked by his parents to accompany Pogbi who is going to meet her fiancé, through an arranged marriage, for the first time. However, Pogbi is in love with Rasmane, a pariah from the smiths' caste, and runs away.
Rabi
A blacksmith falls off his bicycle when he tries to avoid a tortoise which crosses his path. He brings the animal home to his twelve year old son, Rabi, who becomes so fascinated that he forgets his chores at this father's shop. When the angry smith removes the tortoise, Rabi's grandfather, Pusga, helps Rabi find a larger one to consol the boy.
Sababu
The story of a peaceful, well-to-do village which is suddenly disturbed by a murder and a series of unsettling events.
Sango Malo
In Cameroon, new schoolteacher Bernard Malo Malo is about to shake up the small village of Lebamzip. Sensitive to libertarian ideas, he doesn't hesitate to discuss politics and sexuality with his pupils. And when he suggests that the farmers form a cooperative, confrontation with the notables becomes inevitable...
Sankofa
On a photo shoot in Ghana, an American model slips back in time, becomes enslaved on a plantation and bears witness to the agony of her ancestral past.
Tilai
After two years of absence, Saga returns to his village. His fiancee, Nogma, has become his father's second wife.
Waati
Beginning in South Africa under the apartheid regime, the film follows a young girl who flees the country after a violent confrontation with a local white landowner in which her father is killed. She settles in Abidjan, where, ten years later, she has become a university student.
Yaaba
A small African village. The story focuses on Bila, a ten year old boy who befriends an old woman, Sana. Everybody calls her 'Witch' but Bila himself calls her 'Yaaba' (grandmother). When Bila's cousin Nopoko gets sick it is Sana's medicine that saves her.
Yelbeedo
On their wedding night, a couple rescue a baby from a garbage bin only to adopt it some years later.
Zan Boko
In the Mossi culture, one of the rites attending the birth of a child and its induction as a new member of the community involves the burial of the placenta.