Confusion

Synopsis

Ivan is a 9 year old boy who lives with his mother. One day, he receives a new pair of shoes from her that mysteriously disappears while he and his friends are watching a movie. He accuses his friend Junior of the crime, even getting his hands dirty.

Au fil du temps

Synopsis

Mamadou Souaré (known as Modou) is a Senegalese tailor who works in Marrakech. His daily routine is to manage a sewing salon with Senegalese employees. Day after day, his employees carry out with meticulousness a real work of ant by satisfying several orders. His sewing salon receives throughout the day a very special clientele: people of Moroccan, Senegalese, Ivorian, Italian nationality, etc. Through the passing of time, we see the particular links he creates with his customers and employees. Relationships that are sometimes very joyful and sometimes conflicting that are built up over time.

Biofilmography

Fassar Maurice SARR is a laureate of the “Ecole Supérieure de Cinéma du Maroc” (ESAV Marrakech), specializing in directing. He started writing poems, short stories and novels when he was very young. In 2013, he published two collections of poems: Recueil de la fin du monde (Nena Editions), Premiers Vers (Edilivre).

Annaelle

Synopsis

Annaelle Moussavou, 24 years old, shy, passionate about digital technology, works in a computer company where she has difficulty asserting herself. She is harassed by Obiang, a macho man who is the head of her department. Annaelle refuses his advances, and his low blows will cost her her job, but Paul, her colleague who is secretly in love with her, helps her to get out of it.

07-Mars

Synopsis

Victim of an arranged marriage, Sarah finds herself possessed and considered a sexual object by her own husband. After her first wedding night in Marrakech, all she wants is to regain her freedom at any cost.

Biofilmography

Alioune FALL was born in Saint-Louis, Senegal. He is walo-walo and was born on February 1, 1998. Passionate about art in all its dimensions and colors, he integrated the Institut Supérieur d’Enseignements Professionnels de Thiès in the Cinema field for two years before continuing at the “École Supérieure des Arts Visuels de Marrakech”. He is currently doing the Image Cinema option. Alioune FALL has had the opportunity to participate in many fiction and documentary film projects in Senegal. He is the director of the group film “Why not?”, “Terre riche Terre mère” and “Con-Trat” shot in the Senegal River Valley. In Morocco, apart from school films, he has worked on a feature film “Hotel de la paix” at “Jacaranda”.

Tempête dans une calebasse

Synopsis

The villagers of Sougouri and Sawoura are about to clash. Cattle belonging to the villagers of Sawoura are said to have ransacked a field belonging to an inhabitant of Sougouri. The prefect of Sabari sends in the heavy artillery to quell the crisis: the joking kinship.

Biofilmography

Serge Dimitri PITROIPA is a director, producer and set designer born in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. He did his secondary education in Ouagadougou. He continued at the School of Arts at the National Center for Arts and Crafts. In 2005, he participated in the first training in animation in Burkina Faso and joined the association Yelboundi. In 2009, he created “ABCA” the Association Burkinabè du Cinéma d’Animation. Since 2013 he has a production company “PiProduction”. Serge Dimitri PITROIPA has directed a dozen films (animation, documentary, fiction series, etc.)

Reine du Guera

Synopsis

It all starts when her sick mother could not accompany her to the watering hole. She then takes it upon herself to go alone to the dangerous “Chasm of the Mountains”. On the way, she met Kolima, the sorcerer’s daughter, and Ghizarbo the monitor, who were on their way to a village meeting. Curious, she followed them and learned that the king’s son, Prince Dubal, was looking to get married. He was looking for the future princess. Only Doulassi met the recommended criteria. As she would have to return home before sunset, she hurried to fetch water. But Kolima and her sidekick decided to accompany her. Since then, no one has seen her. She vanished into thin air.

Biofilmography

Khalil SALMA is a versatile self-taught artist of pictorial expression. She is a photojournalist and a consultant in graphic design, but she is also a visual artist. She draws her inspiration from the secular cultures of Africa and that of her country in particular. As a designer, she integrates her ancestral signature in her works where innovation and art are mixed. While working as a computer graphics designer in a cell phone company, she discovered the first basics of balloon animation through her curiosity. She who has always made frozen images, discovers through this learning an innovative experience.

In 2018, she trains herself through tutorials she finds on the Internet and gradually adapts a childhood tale into an animated film that she entitled “Queen of Guera” in homage to this mythical mountain of her native land, symbol of goodness as well as authenticity in the feminine. The following months, she adapted the comic strip “The Hassan family” into animation. Khalil’s advertising animations are often broadcast on Chadian national television.

On The Surface

Synopsis

A young black woman goes swimming in the sea and reflects on her experience of raising a child in Iceland, a country that is nothing like home. As she enters the icy water, she relives her traumatic pregnancy. Being in nature and facing her fears helps her heal.

Biofilmography

Fan SISSOKO is a French-Malian artist and filmmaker based in Reykjavik with a background in design. Her work explores themes of migration, motherhood, and neurodiversity. She has worked in London for the Migration Museum, the Museum of London, the Science Gallery Dublin and the National Trust. Her short animated film “On the Surface” was awarded a grant and has been screened at international festivals.

Les Palimpseste

Synopsis

Iba, 9 years old, not-yet-teenager-but-almost-teenager, is athletic, passionate and full of energy, but she has trouble accepting limits. Emeka, her 8 year old brother, is curious and clever, and makes an effort to assert himself and take his place. They are children like there are in all families: lively and endearing, adorable, crossed by the emotions and questionings of their age. But what Iba and Emeka have more, is Mamie Palimpseste. A super funny and super creative grandmother, very clever, hyperactive and full of common sense. To answer her grandchildren’s questions and problems, this incredible grandmother takes them on a journey through time that plunges them into stories from a more or less distant past: that of the heroes of Africa. Episode after episode, these extraordinary adventures enrich our little heroes in the present and help them grow up.

Biofilmography

Ingrid AGBO, a Togolese, is an author-producer who is in line with those who want to create and produce without limits of genres, for any audience, whether it is confidential or popular. The social changes and morals are, among others, the themes that motivate her commitment to films. For her, diversity in creations is above all the diversity of creators.

L’affront

Synopsis

The return of Soundiata’s emissary announces a challenge from Djolofin Mansa. To take up this challenge, the warlords present themselves as volunteers, including Tiramakan.

Biofilmography

A graduate of the “Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers Multimédia Balla Fasseke Kouyate” in Bamako, Negueba TRAORE is a young man with a passion for animated films, which led him to study multimedia. In addition to the classic fields such as photography, video, graphic design… Negueba focused more on learning the techniques of 2D and 3D film animation. To perfect his level, he undertook training courses in several production companies, and accumulated training through the Internet, before landing at “Vortexgroups”, which accompanied him in the realization of his first animated film in 3D, entitled “The Affront” which deals with the story of a warrior chief of the Mali empire. Negueba intends to produce films based on original African stories, in order to enhance them, safeguard them and make them available to the rest of the world.

L’Ombre des Papillons

Synopsis

In the grip of a bittersweet nostalgia, a woman takes refuge in the contemplation of butterflies that seem to populate a mysterious forest.

Biofilmography

Born in 1992 in Casablanca of Moroccan nationality, Sofia EL KHYARI left Morocco for Paris to study cultural management. She also learns animation in self-taught and makes her first short film. She obtained a Master’s degree in animation at the Royal College of Art in London and affirmed her taste for textures, mixed techniques and animated calligraphy.