Awards/Screening: Best Documentary, Zimbabwe International Film Festival 2022 Every year, over a hundred of the most talented law students from across the African continent gather in a different capital city to compete at the prestigious African Human Rights Moot Competition, the largest mock court competition in Africa. At the competition, these young aspiring lawyers act […]
Awards/Screening: Premiered at FESPACO2023 and NY African Film Festival Tooth for Tooth is a film about a civil servant (Augustine) who immigrates to Senegal from Burkina Faso to seek better opportunities in Senegal. Life turns upside down for Augustine after he loses his job as a civil servant because of budget cuts and severe austerity […]
Transilvania FF 2017, Zurich FF 2017, Shanghai IFF 2018, critic’s pick for NY Times Wilson is a middle-aged African refugee who has been in Hungary for years and is trying to get his citizenship papers in the hope of a new life in his adoptive country. However, he keeps failing the citizenship exams. He works […]
Best International Feature Film at 94 th Academy Awards; Chad’s selected entry and nominee for Palme d’Or at Cannes; and 8 other awards With ‘Lingui – the Sacred Bonds’, director Saleh-Haroun has crafted a beautiful, subtle, and gently uplifting testament to the universal human quality of ‘Lingui’. In Chad, Lingui is a concept that refers […]
Opening film of Berlin Panorama Section, selected for Toronto IFF Natalie, her beloved horse Oumie and best friend Poppy (heavily pregnant) are on the run in the desert Karoo region after a killing on Natalie’s wedding night. At the same time police officer Beauty, with her own parallel story to tell, is setting out to […]
Golden Stallion of Yennega Award, FESPACO; Africa Movie Academy Award for best actor in a leading role; AMAA for Best Film 2021; Jussi Award for Best Music 2022; Jussi Award for best costume design, best makeup, best production design 2021; AMAA for best film in an African language. Middle-aged Guled, working in the slums of […]
The film won several post-production awards at the Venice IFF; selected at the Melbourne, Toronto, and Sarajevo IFF’s; second prize at the Marrakesh IFF Atlas workshop; selected at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight 2022, and Film Fest Munich A beautiful and sensual film that follows a day in the life and psyches of a group of teenage […]
Opening night at the Milan African, Asian, and South American IFF; Valladolid IFF, nominee for Golden Spike Award for Best Film It is 1962, and Mali has just gained its independence from France and established a socialist government under Modibo Keita. In this environment, a passionate and impetuous love affair evolves between two youths, Samba(Stephane […]
Brazil FF Otiti, a talented seamstress working towards a fashion show is plagued by emotional reserve and a general hesitancy around commitment. Her chance meeting with a new customer reveals that she is in fact the abandoned daughter of a wealthy man, and she goes to meet him in search of answers to her life. […]
Dream of Salt A dream can’t be seen by the eyes as it resides in the world of imagination Nabil Herbawy’s dream lit up his sightless eyes to allow him to illuminate the dreamers’ lives. Photocopy In a way, Mahmoud’s life is a ‘photocopy’ of millions of others: He has worked for 30 years in […]
Climb with Remi: Kilimanjaro for IDPs In an attempt to get the public to care, four Nigerian women take on a symbolic adventure to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro to raise awareness for the plight of millions of women and children living in deplorable conditions in camps set up for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) children […]
Women Hold Up the Sky In the world of mining and big dam construction, women are the first to be affected by the pollution, loss of land and displacement. This is the story of women in Congo DR, Uganda and South Africa standing up for their rights against the multinationals destroying their environment and livelihood. […]
