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- An American couple travel abroad to revitalize their relationship. But as the trip drags on, their attempt at recovering what they once had seems futile.
- A look at the fast disappearing tribal customs of North Africa.
- Academy Award-nominee Fernando Meirelles (City of God (2002)) and Malian musician Inna Modja take us on an epic journey to the frontline of the climate crisis along Africa's ambitious Great Green Wall.
- Three men attempt to become the first humans to run coast to coast across the Sahara Desert.
- A life of Nigerien immigrants in Abidjan, Ivory Coast within a week.
- Set in the past, follows young African boy who uses his friends, the wild animals, to defend his village from Arab slave traders.
- Herzog's documentary of the Wodaabe people of the Sahara/Sahel region. Particular attention is given to the tribe's spectacular courtship rituals and 'beauty pageants', where eligible young men strive to outshine each other and attract mates by means of lavish makeup, posturing and facial movements.
- Paleontologist Paul Sereno and reptile expert Brady Barr are doing a research on "Sarcosuchus Imperator", a 40 feet long prehistoric relative of crocodiles. The story about the creature is presented through CGI animation as well.
- A revolutionary story of guitars, motorcycles, cell phones, and the music of a new generation
- 12-years-old Houlaye lives in Niger, and travels several kilometers each day to fetch water. The village got together to construct a well. This is the promise of a new life for people who have literally been walking on water since birth.
- The adventures of three young men who leave their homeland Savannah, Niger, and go looking for fortune in Ghana.
- A Parisian lad spends a brief, life-changing time with a clan of the Imûhar, a high desert Berber people, called Tuaregs by the French. At age ten, Khénan's mother dies, and his father Najem, an Imûhar, brings him from Paris to Niger after an eight year absence. Khénan bonds with his grandfather, a clan elder, from whom he learns Imûhar ways, with his aunt, Tannès, who is engaged but falls in love with a man from another tribe, and with Chadèma, a girl whose relationship to him is a surprise. Khénan mourns his mother in a culture that doesn't mention the dead; Hamou, the outsider, courts Tannès; Paris is in the past and future; and, the desert is an ocean of beauty and trial.
- In an attempt to contain migratory flows, EU leaders have opted for a costly, double-edged policy of outsourcing. They have chosen to hand out millions of euros to countries on Europe's borders, in the hope that these neighbors will themselves contain the flow of migrants, thus relieving themselves of this thankless task. However, these measures do not seem to be having the desired effect, as the networks are now content to take ever more perilous routes. Another unexpected consequence is that Europe is exposed to potential blackmail by the countries it finances.
- In the war-zones of Liberia and Congo, four volunteers with Doctors Without Borders struggle to provide emergency medical care under extreme conditions.
- Zerzura is a feature-length ethnofiction shot in the Sahara desert. Mixing folktales and documentary, the film follows a young man from Niger who leaves home in search of an enchanted oasis.
- During the year 2000 Geyrhalter and his teams travelled to a different destination each month, looking for places untouched by the millennium hysteria. Locations include Niger, Finland, Micronesia, Australia, China, Siberia or Greenland.
- Despite the valuable crude oil that flows from the ground beneath their feet, the impoverished villagers in the Niger Delta wage a daily struggle to survive. This Seattle-made documentary journeys to the region to examine the complex powder keg situation that could have drastic local and global effects.
- A yearly ceremony among the Songhai people of Niger to invoke the spirits of the sky and of rain.
- A Frenchwoman is taken hostage by an African tribe for months - can she escape ?
- Nigeria's military government attracted international condemnation for its oppression of the Ogoni people of the Niger Delta. Ogoni villages were destroyed, their inhabitants indiscriminately killed and Ogoni leader and writer Ken Saro-Wiwa held in prison for over a year on a dubious murder charge and then executed.
- Who was Franz Fanon and what is his legacy today? Of yesterday and today, documentary maker Hassane Mezine gives voice to men and women who knew and shared with the flint warrior, according to Aimé Césaire's beautiful formula, privileged moments during the struggle but also in a family and friendly context. Fanon died in December 1961 but his reflection irrigated numerous revolutionary fields throughout the world. What view of this thinker and action man, have those who continue the fight today on different fronts against injustice and arbitrariness. The Director takes the viewer on a journey, from the homeland to the hubs of political and social struggles passing through the land where he rests. North and South of the world, activists talk of their struggle and reflect on their rapports with Frantz Fanon. The transmission is thus established between the historical dimension and the diverse contemporary spaces swept by the Fanonian breath. 2021, sixtieth anniversary of the death of frantz fanon 2021, sixtieth anniversary of the release of « the wretched of the earth » A pivotal year of many crises, 2021 is the sixtieth anniversary of Frantz Fanon's passing and of the publication of The Wretched of the Earth, his final work. Much more than a political testament, this ultimate book remains one of the fundamental works for the emancipation of the peoples of the South. The conditions prevailing in the early 1960s have certainly changed. But the contradictions between exploiting North and dominated South remain the norm of international relations; as unambiguously demonstrated by the situations in Africa and in Latin America. Liberal globalization and the use of a work force from the South have transposed, in new ways, into Europe and North America, the conflicts inherited from colonialism. Racism and xenophobia, islamophobia and negrophobia disfigure the wealthy societies of the North, eaten away by social injustice, the misery of many facing the boundless enrichment of predatory elites. Liberation, according to Fanon, occurs through the struggle against all forms of alienation, whether political or psychological. Colonialism and its new forms are the vectors of psychic suffering which is an integral part of the apparatus of imperialist domination. Fanon's diagnostic of these psychopathological dimensions as well as of the nature of politico-economic and cultural antagonisms has not lost its validity and its relevance, far from it. Contrary to what his detractors have hoped, the sharp gaze of the flint-Warrior, as Césaire called him, enlightens the debate on an unfinished process of decolonization.
- A journey through six different countries and characters into a world where chemistry is the ultimate response to human pursuits of well-being. From antidepressants to opioids pain or stimulant medication, the film questions our whole consumer society and the so called Eldorado of prescribed happiness.
- Africa's development is being held back by poor infrastructure and undersized power plants. Countries like Uganda can only produce only 1/4 of the energy needed, leading to daily power cuts with disastrous economic impacts. It's a golden opportunity for nuclear giants who lobby aggressively for more power plants in Africa. But how safe are these new reactors? And what do they mean for the locals?
- Nama, a teenager from Mali, has crossed desert and sea for his freedom. When Nama is injured in a fight, an old man named Willi lets him move into the house that he used to share with his son Stefan. The father and son have not spoken for years and the three men may have little in common, yet what binds them together is their search for a home where their wounds from present and past can heal.