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« A Day With… » is a series of ten portraits of children living in West Africa. They are seven to twelve years old. They live in Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger. Each film tells the story of an ordinary day, at school, at home, from a child’s point of view. Each day has its upbeats and offbeat...

Every year the War Cemetery Memorial of Wahala in Togo hosts the 11th November Remembrance Day Ceremony which recalls the end of World War I. The first German surrender of WWI was signed on the soil of the Reich's Togoland colony in August 1914, subsequently to the battle of Chra. It marked de facto...

Officially, the Rif war was fought from 1920 to 1926, to crush the rebellion towards independance led by AbdelKrim in a remote area of Morocco. This war involved hundreds of thousands of men and considerable resources. The Rif war not only called into question the colonial system, but it also marked...

After the death of her uncle, a dignitary Mandingo Islam, the director films her family courtyard. A dispute over the estate has burst out between advocates of traditional law and proponents of official law, inherited from European colonization. The courtyard becomes the theater where the future of ...

Thabo, Thabiso and Moalosi are young, urban Basotho men on a mission. They travel with a mobile cinema unit through the mountains of Lesotho, screening their film to very remote communities. In a country where almost a third of the people are HIV+ they are the nucleus of a tiny group that are living...

Thiaroye isn’t a peaceful fishermen’s village anymore… It’s from here that people first organized illegal boat departures from Senegal. Most fishermen want to leave. It seems there isn’t enough fish left to feed the families… Modou is thirty and attempted twice this perilous journey to Europe where...

The life and times of Barney Wilen, the legendary jazz musician who at age 18 was already playing with Miles Davis, and whom many called the “greatest European saxophonist.” Exiled to Zanzibar in the 70s, hero of Loustal's cult comic strip, The Blue Note, Wilen was as famous for his brilliant appear...

On the beach of Thiaroye-sur-Mer on the outskirts of Dakar, the incongruous presence of the director and his " Mobile Office for Discussion" provokes many meetings. It gathers the stories of those who left but failed to reach their destination. As, for the past five years, hundreds of men have embar...

Ciné-Guerrillas is a documentary that take us on an archival road trip through the birth of the Third World project, based on unseen 35mm materials filmed by Stevan Labudović, the cameraman of Yugoslav President Tito.  It plunges us into the media battle that played out during the Algerian war for i...

For two decades, the victims of the Six-Day War in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been fighting in Kisangani for the recognition of this bloody conflict and demanding compensation. Tired of unsuccessful pleas, they have finally decided to voice their claims in Kinshasa, after a long journey d...