Cinematography: Jacques Besse

Direction Djibril Diop Mambéty

Cast Lissa Balera · Aminata Fall · Tayerou M'Baye

Plot Following Le Franc and conceived as the second installment of an unfinished trilogy of dramatic shorts entitled “Tales of Little People, Mambety works in a simpler, almost fabular style that...

Direction Abderrahmane Sissako

Cast Aïssa Maiga · Tiécoura Traoré · Maimouna Helene Diarra · Habib Dembélé

Plot Melé is a bar singer, her husband Chaka is out of work and the couple is on the verge of breaking up. In the courtyard of the house they share...

Direction Yesim Ustaoglu

Cast Tsilla Chelton · Derya Alabora · Onur Unsal · Övül Avkiran

Plot When three forty-something siblings in Istanbul receive a call one night that their aging mother has disappeared from her home at the Western Black Sea Coast of Turkey, the three...

Direction Abderrahmane Sissako

Cast Abderrahmane Sissako · Nana Baby · Mohamed Sissako · Bourama Coulibaly

Direction Abderrahmane Sissako

Cast Khatra Ould Abder Kader · Maata Ould Mohamed Abeid · Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamed · Nana Diakité

Direction Maria João Ganga

Cast João Roldan · Domingos Fernandes Fonseca · Júlia Botelho · Ana Bustorff

Plot A group of children, fleeing the war, is taken to Luanda accompanied by a nun. When they reach the aeroplane, 12-year-old N'Dala decides to leave the group and to reconnoitre...

Direction Moustapha Dao

Cast Mohamed Tougouma · Edouard Wango · Amadé Bouine · Hamidou Tiemtoré

Plot To his despair, the lion-king "Weogho-Naaba" had only daughters. One day, his wife laid an egg... The king set off to find a wife for his son, but she was...

Direction Abderrahmane Sissako

Direction Jillali Ferhati

Cast Souad Ferhati · Mohamed Timoud · Fatima Loukili

Plot Since Mina is sufficiently mentally impaired that her judgement is not all that it might be, in this Moroccan drama her actions are not questioned. She doesn't know what's happening...

Direction Mweze Ngangura

Cast Gérard Essomba · Dominique Mesa · Herbert Flack · David Steegen

Plot A modern fairy tale set in the vibrant African emigré demi-monde of contemporary Europe. It was the winner of the most prestigious award in African cinema the Etalon de Yennenga...

Direction Moustapha Dao

Cast Lamoussa Kabore

Plot A cayman is lost in the bush, and asks a child for help; in exchange, he promises not to eat him. But once the child has helped him get back...

Direction Rashid Masharawi

Cast Areen Omari · Mahmoud al Massad · Youssef Baroud · Abderrahman Abou El Qassem

Direction Khaled Ghorbal

Cast Farid Chopel · Assumpta Serna · Abdelhafid Metalsi · Aboubacar Eros Sissoko

Plot Mohammed is a retired factory-worker. He lives alone in the Sonacotra residence for workers. But he is now ill and is being forced to leave the room he has occupied...

Direction Daniel Cling

Direction Kamal Aljafari

Cast Salim Bilbesi · George Khleifi

Plot In what is left of the city of Jaffa, a man about to lose his house contemplates his fate. Meanwhile two women remain tied to their homes. Cats scrabbling her...