Je reste photographe

Synopsis

A young photographer inherits his elder’s trunk of negatives. Cross-portrait of Paul Kodjo, one of the most influential photographers of post-colonial Côte d’Ivoire, and Ananias Léki Dago, a contemporary Ivorian photographer.

Biofilmography

Ananias Léki Dago studied photography at the School of Fine Arts in Abidjan (1990‐1993). He is also the initiator of the month of photography in Abidjan, “Les Rencontres du Sud”, held in 2000 and 2002. His work has been presented in numerous international exhibitions and prestigious collections such as The Philadelphia Museum of Art in the United States. Ananias takes his first steps in cinema with a documentary film, he has directed, about the life of Paul Kodjo: Je reste photographe.

Gardien des mondes

Synopsis

One day, at the foot of a tomb, Hassan fell asleep and never left the cemetery. For 40 years, he has made his home in the hills of Jellaz in Tunisia, watching over the dead and observing the living. In search of love and freedom, Hassan navigates between day and night and invites us to discover his worlds.

Biofilmography

Leïla Chaïbi began work in cinema as a camera operator on fiction films, documentaries and magazines. Since 2010, she has developed her own film projects and is interested in the question of identity and the Arab world. “Tous brûlés. La Maison des hommes “, is a portrait of prisons in Tunisia. She has then co-directed “Le verrou“, a film about the magic ritual of the Tasfh aiming to protect young girls from any penetration. “Gardien des mondes ” is her second feature.

The dream chasers

Synopsis

Back in Gandiol, his hometown in Senegal, after eight years as a migrant in Spain, Mamadou seeks to be a positive force for his community. With help from his wife Laura and ubder the benevolent eye of Yaaye Khadi, Mamadou’s mother, he begins to build and share with his community the « active utopia » referred to in the book Mamadou wrote during his journey. The film takes us to a journey with Mamadou in his quest, to try to uncover his dream.

Biofilmography

Saliou Waa Guendoum SARR is a writer, composer and stage director whose nectar contributes to the universality of language, culture and representations. He believes that art can bring change and that cinema can help rebuild the way Africans see themselves. He directed Masque démasque in 2008, and Coup de filet en 2011 and Life saaraba illegal in 2016.

No U-Turn/Lagos Tanger, aller simple

Synopsis

Ike Nnaebue returns to the path he took 21 years back when he wanted to go to Europe. A road movie from Nigeria to Morocco through Benin, Burkina Faso, Togo, Mali, Mauritania to meet those who dream of Europe, knowing the road is dangerous. Fragments of migrants’ lives, their fears and hopes, their anger and resignation. But more importantly, the reasons why they leave. A journey the director took 20 years back sharing his intimate part.

Biofilmography

Ike Nnaebue a highly celebrated Nigerian Film Director, Screenwriter, Producer and Cultural Entrepreneur. Ike’s new film No U-Turn received a Special Mention Award at Berlin International Festival – Berlinale 2022. Since its premier at the Berlinale, No U-Turn has screened at over 11 notable international film festivals and recently got awarded the highly coveted Artistic Bravery Award at Durban International Film Festival.

We, students !

Synopsis

Nestor, Aaron, Benjamin and Rafiki are economics undergraduates at the University of Bangui. Navigating between overcrowded classrooms, odd jobs that allow students to survive and bribery lurking everywhere, Rafiki shows us what students lives are like in the Central African Republic, a shattered society where the youth keep on dreaming for a brighter future for their country.

Biofilmography

Rafiki Fariala, whose right name is Fariala Alolea Albert, arrived in early in Central African Republic where his parents took refuge because of the war in DRC. As an entirely self-taught talent, he embarked on musical composition. In 2013, under the pseudonym Rafiki-RH20, he recorded his first song Why war? which became a hit. In 2017, he was selected to participate in a documentary workshop hosted in Bangui by Ateliers Varan. At the end of the workshop, he made his debut film Mbi na Mo (Toi et moi), showed at many festivals.

Geology of Separation

Synopsis

For the past six months, Abderrahmane has been living in the Alp, in northern Italy, in a former family-run hotel turned into a temporary reception centre for asylum seekers. In the room opposite his, lives Laly. Abderrahmane is waiting to go before a commission which will rule on his asylum request. He is warned: for this trial, he will have to tell his story in detail.

Biofilmography

Yosr Gasmi is a Tunisian director born in Tunis. Her studies in humanities and Comparative Literature at Tunis-based ENS then at the Sorbonne led her eventually to cinema, which she considers as a means of expression.

Mauro Mazzocchi is an Italian director. After studying theatre and philosophy, he directed and produced together with Yosr Gasmi their debut fiction feature, I Want to Go Mad, Raving Mad-L.E.N.Z. in 2016. Géologie de la séparation is their second film.

Fatima, a short life

Synopsis

Fatima, une vie courte” celebrates a young woman who worked as a housekeeper in Morocco and who was so mistreated that she eventually died. Relatively little is known about the victim. The film is rather a portrait of a country with startling contrasts.

Biofilmography

Hakim El Hachoumi studied directing in France and Russia. After graduation, he contributed to various theatre productions. In 2009, he was one of the founders and then director of AlFilm Festival, Berlin Arab Film Festival. He has also hosted cinema workshops in various countries and lectures at the Free University of Berlin. In 2019, Hakim El Hachoumi directed “Männer der Wüste: mit kamelhirten durch die Sahara “, a medium-length documentary.

The cemetery of cinema

Synopsis

The director travels throughout Guinea in search of “Mouramani” by Mamadou Touré, first film ever made by a French-speaking Black African in 1953, using his camera to confront History. This is a film about cinema, both the kind we watch and the kind we make.

Biofilmography

Thierno Souleymane Diallo studied at the ISAG (Art University og Guinea) in Dubréka. In 2012 he went to Niger for a master in creative documentary, and then a degree of documentary cinema in Senegal. He has made several short films during his studies. In 2015, Souleymane made his directional debut with the documentary “Un homme pour ma famille” and in 2018, “Nô Mëtî Sîfâdhe”. He also works for a Guinean television. “The cemetery of cinema” is his first feature documentary.

Amchilini

Synopsis

In the canton of Boutefil at the gateway to the Chadian desert, unmarried women are accused by the Iman of being the source of the divine wrath on the village. The village chiefs decide to hold a traditional ceremony, the Amchilini, which consists in forcing all unmarried women to choose a husband. But there are voices, especially among young girls, against what they see as an attack to their dignity and freedom. They claim equal rights and autonomy as men.

Biofilmography

Kader Allamine KORAis the director of shorts films Notre séjour à Niamey ; FESPACO 2013 ; and Faire le Deuil. In 2016, he made the feature documentary La Promesse du Biram, official selection of a dozen festivals in Africa and Europe. He also made the short films Portraits d’un jeune maraicher and L’islam et la planification familiale. In 2017, he directed several magazines for Chadian National TV, winning the Dari Awards and Best Chadian director in 2016.