Evoking the trauma of immigration on a comic register is a courageous, but immediately endearing challenge. It is also a difficult one to rise to, especially when the film deals…

Soudani has an eye for the visual. Cameraman and director of photography before turning to directing, he knows how to choose a frame that immediately does justice to its subject…

Traumatized after seeing her father die through insufficient health care, Saïkati trains as a nurse. She dreams of working with the bush doctors who fly to treat emergencies. Back in…

Five young twenty-year-olds form a highly cohesive group until one of them accidentally dies in an argument. The trouble with this film is that it combines two registers which compete…

What tendencies, what meteors emerge in this profusion of fictions? On the Edge, by the Nigerian Nweton Aduaka, most certainly. Indeed, this homage to Fela has an air of Afrobeat…

The historic fiction Sucre amer is a dense and fascinating film whose aim leaps right out of the screen: i.e. to restitute West Indian memory in the light of its…

Zakia is beautiful, active, passionate. She presents a women’s television programme. She meets up with her lost friends, Leila, Keltoum and Ghita. The four women promise to keep in touch,…

Awa and Adama (Adam and Eve) are very close twins. In order to help her scholastically less able brother, Awa (Nacky Sy Savané) sells her soul to the soothsayer Mousso…

When she returns to South Africa after having lived in exile in the States, Nolutando, who has qualified as a doctor, wants to offer her father, whom she thinks has…

This lively comedy creates its own classification: « mandelazation ». No reference is made to apartheid, and Whites are absent. It is is entirely on his own free will that Sipho (Fats…

Manga and Sorry love one another, and defy the taboos surrounding homosexuality. Their families manage to force them apart. Manga attempts a relation with a white woman, but ends up…

A young, rich couple travel to Tangier for a medical congress. The woman is abducted and raped by some important men. In the effort to rescue her, the man kills…

A Tunisian immigrant ruined by exile, physically weakened and mentally diminished by his stay in France, returns to the fold to die at the end of a long journey in…

Eight years after the release of Toubab bi which stared Makena Diop in the role of an immigrant, Moussa Touré renews his confidence in the actor. Diop plays Rambo in…

African film production and distribution have to go hand in hand, affirmed the participants at the « Cinema and distribution circuits in Africa » seminar, at the Fespaco 99.

In what way is this film relevant today? In the Bible, there is a fraternity which does not stop conflict: we love one another and we fight. This is more…

« Why did you create brothers if only for this dry wind and thirst to return with each generation? » Images of the genocides in Rwanda and Yugoslavia, of all the countries…

The second feature film by the Congolese filmmaker Mweze Dieudonné Ngangura won the Etalon de Yennenga at the sixteenth Fespaco. Set in Congo and Belgium, the film tells the incredible…

Emotions were running high, and the minute of silence too short at the Fespaco’s homage to Djibril Diop Mambéty and David Achkar, two filmmakers who passed away in 1998, and…

He is still wondering whether the prize he won for Fools was a politically motivated or not… Refusing to bite his tongue over the Zongo affair, the Burkinabè journalist murdered…