Issaka Sawadogo

Young actor Amir yearns for success, yet his impatience steers him into a nightmare.

After the death of their father, two half-brothers find themselves on opposite sides of an escalating conflict with tragic consequences.

Ambientada en la Mali postcolonial de los años 60, cuando los jóvenes de Bamako bailan el rock and roll recién importado de Occidente y sueñan con una renovación política, 'Mali Twist' se centra en los personajes de Samba y Lara. Él es un joven socialista que se enamora de la enérgica Lara durante una de sus misiones en la selva. Para escapar de su matrimonio forzado, ella huye en secreto con él a la ciudad. Pero el esposo de Lara no lo permitirá y la Revolución pronto les acarreará dolorosas desilusiones mientras sueñan con un futuro juntos.

On their ladyfriends' insistence, their "Tchiza", three friends go on an extramarital trip out of Ouagadougou, a fake mission to Abidjian being the perfect alibi. But it all goes downhill when they learn that the plane they should have been in has crashed down. How can they come back home when they're supposed to be dead? Their wives' vengeance will burn the ground they walk on.

The story of a Burkinabé immigrant who is reluctantly drawn into a neighbour’s troubles in his Montreal apartment building.

The story of Ismail Abdoul, a promising young boxer getting caught between his sporting carreer and his rising fame in the criminal underworld.

Un hombre es enviado a "La Maca", una prisión costamarfileña en medio del bosque, que tiene la particularidad de estar gobernada por sus propios presos. Siguiendo la tradición, con la primera luna roja es designado por el jefe como el nuevo "romano", lo que implica que ha de contar una historia para el resto de prisioneros. Tras descubrir lo que el destino le aguarda, empieza a narrar la vida del legendario rebelde "Zama King", sin otra opción que la de alargar su relato hasta el amanecer.

'What happened? Where am I?' The man who wakes up alone in the woods has many questions. Is he dead and in the hereafter? The voice of God soberly answers his questions: Yep, that’s right. Traffic accident. But it’s not that bad, because everyone eventually dies. All the man’s questions, also about the meaning of life, are answered. In an equally entertaining and stimulating dialogue in English, the film evokes a comprehensive image of the universe and man’s place in it.

On the basis of conversations with Hänsel and some of her permanent crew members, a remarkable portrait is created of a filmmaker who is also her own producer, i.e. boss. The relationship between characters and their natural environment plays a major role in her work that is often based on novels.

Three kids spend the summer days the usual way: hanging out, snapchatting... and playing with their newly discovered pet.

For Goran and his team of amateur shooters, the plan was almost perfect: to enter a hypermarket at night to rob a jeweler. But these "broken arms" had not anticipated the arrival of a vigil like no other: Walter, a former African warlord who will send them to hell .

After years spent in Paris, Clotaire Sangala returns to his native country, Africa. Raised by a Chinese martial arts grandfather, convinced to have been found in a garbage can, Clotaire knows nothing of the glorious past of his parents. He will become "Black Snake", the masked and ultra-sapped superhero, liberator of the people against the dictator Hezekiah.

Cuando un amigo suyo de la infancia es asesinado en Miami, Baaba se muda a la ciudad y forma equipo con un policía local para dar con los criminales responsables de la muerte de su amigo.

50-year-old Victor Ganz owns a thriving civil engineering company that operates worldwide. But when some very costly problems on a site force him to go to Morocco, he is confronted with memories from his youth, that he had so far managed to bury. Between his meetings in ministries, the reappearance of a lost love who had mysteriously disappeared and an investigation into the local underground, Victor Ganz plunges into a labyrinthine world where present and past intertwine.

Monsters fight with each other in a dystopian world, playing out the revenge of their human breeders.

The story follows a group of people who are kidnapped from the street and held hostage in an underground prison to await deportation. Will they escape? What will be the cost of freedom?

The lives of six people, who seem to have nothing more in common than their faraway homelands, become inextricably linked in Amsterdam, the city they have chosen as their new home.

Samba llegó a Francia hace 10 años, desde Senegal, y desde entonces ha pasado por varios empleos humildes. Alice es una ejecutiva que está pasando una mala época en su vida, y sufre de agotamiento. Ambos luchan por salir de su particular y personal callejón sin salida. Samba está dispuesto a hacer lo que sea necesario para conseguir los papeles, mientras que Alicia intenta recuperar su vida... hasta que el destino los junta. Equilibrando momentos desenfadados con sentimientos más profundos, Samba es una historia sobre dos extraños en un nuevo rumbo hacia la felicidad.

1992: The undocumented Ghanaian Agymah (50) lives a secluded life as a cook in the outskirts of Amsterdam. When the ambitious dreamer Nina (12) arrives, Agymah is effectively forced to become her guardian. Nina drives Agymah crazy with her callous way of life and her eagerness to make contact with the outside world. Gradually, though, Agymah comes to understand that this is exactly what he has been escaping from and he realizes he must choose for life instead of waiting for death. When El Al flight 1862 crashes into their building, Agymah goes on a desperate search for the girl that gave him a reason to live. Into Thin Air is the first film based on the Bijlmer crash. It tells a human story of an event that has been branded into the collective memory of The Netherlands. Officially there were 43 fatalities, but because of the large number of illegal residents the actual figure will never be known.

Mirte is a cleaner in the reception centre for asylum seekers at the airport. She tries to forget her past through routine. When the charismatic West African Luc is brought in, Mirte seems to get a grip on her life again. A film about loss, fleeing and love from an unexpected corner.

A cargo ship is stuck on the Canadian Saint Lawrence River for repairs. Traoré, an Ivory Coast mechanic is unjustly accused of causing the damage.

Ambitious Cape Verdean medical student Artur struggles with his responsibilities.

The refugee Matthew wait in the outfit centre schiphol East for its flight to Sudan. If that of but, Arash, a despair action commits, Matthew get suddenly the chance of escaping

Debut en el largometraje de Nicolas Provost, autor de galardonados cortos. El fim narra la odisea de Amadou, un africano que es arrastrado por el mar a una playa del sur de Europa. El destino lo lleva a Bruselas, donde, lleno de optimismo, trata de labrarse un futuro mejor.

In a luxurious hotel, the lives of 6 people cross. A story about love, life and the search for happiness.

En la pequeña ciudad noruega de Skogli, varios personajes que representan una amplia gama de edades y clases sociales se entrecruzan, mezclando el humor con la tragedia, la ternura con la desesperación, abiertos al perdón y a la esperanza. Las diferentes historias tocan todos los aspectos de la convivencia y exploran el amor a cualquier edad y en todas sus fases, desde el nacimiento a la muerte. Este moderno villancico está basado en una selección de historias cortas de la colección “Bare mjuke pakker under treet (Dejad regalos suaves debajo del árbol)”, del autor noruego Levi Henriksen.

On the one hand, there’s the desert eating away at the land. The endless dry season, the lack of water. On the other there’s the threat of war. The village well has run dry. The livestock is dying. Trusting their instinct, most of the villagers leave and head south. Rahne, the only literate one, decides to head east with his three children and Mouna, his wife. A few sheep, some goats, and Chamelle, a dromedary, are their only riches. A tale of exodus, quest, hope and fatality.

A story about an immigrant from Burkina Faso and his attempts to integrate in Norwegian society. Exoticore is a touching tale about modern-day people trying to find their place in this world. A film about being a foreigner, about solitude and contemporary insanity. A dark journey into exoticism.

Anna lives with her father Karl someplace in the outskirts of northern Norway. Karl killed his ex-wife and threw her newborn coloured child into the sea when he discovered that she obviously had been unfaithful. Now Karl is being haunted by her ghost and is developing a serious drinking problem. Anna is looking for the love of her life, but there aren't many bachelors around - until they discovers another small family on the other side of the mountain. They meet a semi-alcoholized widow on Karl's age, her son Peder, and her black adopted son, Ante, that arrived from the sea on a piece of wood.