Hope (2014)
Género : Drama
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 31M
Director : Boris Lojkine
Sinopsis
On his clandestine journey from Cameroon to Europe through the Sahara desert, Léonard meets Hope, a Nigerian girl who's following the same dream.
La joya de la corona de los documentales de surf. Brown sigue a dos jóvenes surfistas por todo el mundo en busca de la ola perfecta, y termina por encontrar un buen número, además de algunos coloridos personajes locales.
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Bobby and Rose, two youngsters who are in love, have to run away from home when they are falsely accused to have committed a robbery and an assassination.
Una mujer francesa rescata de su memoria los días de su infancia que transcurrieron en el Camerún colonial. Sin ningún otro punto de referencia, la inocente chiquilla acepta el sometimiento de una mayoría negra por parte de la minoría de colonos blancos como un orden natural de las cosas. La pequeña crece al tiempo que las desigualdades sociales, pero sólo desde el recuerdo es capaz de darse cuenta de las crueldades y los errores cometidos por el sistema colonial.
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A British District Officer in Nigeria in the 1930s rules his area strictly but justly. He struggles with gun-runners and slavers with the aid of a loyal native chief.
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Felix Moumié was a rebel leader in Cameroon. He was poisoned by thallium in October, 1960 in Geneva. After nearly fifty years, no one has been charged with his death, though many suspect the French and Swiss governments played a part in his death.
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Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), the mission doctor, theologian and philosopher who founded a hospital in the rainforests of Gabon, achieved sainthood in his lifetime, at least in the popular imagination. The critical assessment of his life and works in recent years, however, has been slightly more ambivalent. Ba Kobhio Bassek is the first director to examine this medical missionary from a purely African point-of-view.
Cancer specialist Dr. Michael Durant forms an unlikely bond with seven year old Sam and becomes desperate, willing to risk anything to save the child’s life. A surreptitious Nigerian Nurse convinces him to seek the help of Dr. Bello, an uncertified Nigerian Doctor, known in the Brooklyn-African underground as a miracle worker.
Lucifer sends his trusty minions out into the world to lead the good folk of Nigeria unto temptation in order to lock them into his cage. The good pastor Lazarus who has noticed the signs, realizing that hell is about to be unleashed on Earth, sets about righting wrongs through the power of prayer.
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La boda perfecta está a punto de convertirse en una pesadilla por culpa de la presencia de exparejas, peleas familiares e invitados inoportunos.
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