Alpha Diop
Short lo-fi film set in Senegal. Mostly focussing on a group of Senegalese youths, discussing their hopes and fears concerning the crossing of the atlantic to get to Europe. Will life be easier there or not?
Four nameless people -- the old man, the woman, the soldier, and the gambler -- journey to a desolate wasteland beyond the limits of an unnamed city.
Hani
Francia, 1915. La joven y bella Centaine de Thiry es la mujer más feliz del mundo: en un par de horas se casará con el piloto Michael Courtney, el amor de su vida. Pero el destino tiene otro plan: Michael es derribado en un avión de reconocimiento poco antes de su boda. La vida ha perdido su significado para Centaine. Cuando la joven se da cuenta poco después de que está esperando un bebé, recupera la alegría de vivir. Ella decide dar a luz al niño en Sudáfrica, el país de origen de su difunto prometido.
Ham, son of Noah, was damned for seeing his father naked: his descendants were condemned to serve Shem and Japheth, the "good" sons of Noah. Cush, son of Ham, is the forefather of black people. His sons will carry the curse of Ham throughout the history of slavery. Rouch adapts the text of Julius Amédé Laou, a delusional dialogue between two women.
Eugénie, la quimboiseuse
An old couple, Eugenie and Armand, have been living in Paris since 1921 part of the wave of post-war immigration from Martinique. Eugenie, a former dancer with Josephine Baker's Black Revue has become a professional quimboiseuse (practising black magic) for a white clientele. Armand who had been a servant is retired. Now they are both old and bitter and still quarreling with each other. One day they set out, arm-in-arm for a last promenade in the metropolis.
A single-set color musical tracing the history of the West Indies through several centuries of French oppression.
