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Soul to Soul
🇬🇭 Ghana The 1970sFootage of an American soul music concert held in Ghana to celebrate the 14th anniversary of the independence of that country in 1971. Features live performances by Ike & Tina Turner, Roberta Flack, Carlos Santana, Wilson Pickett and Willie Bobo.
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Little by Little
🇳🇪 NigerAn African travels to Paris to learn about the construction of tall buildings, but is soon taken up with the oddities of French life.
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Badou Boy
🇸🇳 SenegalSarcastic look at Senegal's capital that followed the adventures of what the director described as a "somewhat immoral street urchin who is very much like myself".
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Mandabi
🇸🇳 SenegalA money order from a relative in Paris throws the life of a Senegalese family man out of order. He deals with corruption, greed, problematic family members, the locals and the changing from his traditional way of living to a more modern one.
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Jaguar
🇬🇭 Ghana 🇳🇪 NigerJaguar, a kind of road movie on foot, tells of the journey of three friends, Damouré, Lam and Illo, on their way to the Gold Coast where they hope to make a fortune in order to return to their village in a few months.
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Black Girl
🇸🇳 SenegalEager to find a better life abroad, a Senegalese woman becomes a mere governess to a family in southern France, suffering from discrimination and marginalization.
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Ivory Coast Adventure
🇨🇮 Côte dIvoireAn Embassy attache and a butterfly hunter become involved in a treasure hunt between two rival gangs.
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The Wagoner
🇸🇳 SenegalA cart-taxi driver goes to the city to make a living, but out of sympathy with other poverty-stricken people, he works for free and goes hungry himself.
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The Human Pyramid
🇨🇮 Côte dIvoireJean Rouch gives a group of black and white teenagers a "what if" question: what if they socialised with each other? The teenagers then improvise their own characters and situations.
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Le Niger, jeune république
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Timbuktu
🇲🇱 Mali The 1940sThe mighty revolt that turned the Sahara red! — An American wheeler-dealer woos a colonel's wife amid danger at a French Foreign Legion fort.
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Moi, un Noir
🇨🇮 Côte dIvoire The 1950sWinner of the prestigious Prix Louis Delluc in 1958, "Moi, un noir" marked Jean Rouch's break with traditional ethnography, and his embrace of the collaborative and improvisatory strategies he called "shared ethnography" and "ethnofiction". The film depicts an ordinary week in the lives of men and women from Niger who have migrated to Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire for work.
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Daybreak in Udi
🇳🇬 NigeriaAn African tribe in the Eastern Nigerian village of Umana work to build a maternity hospital, with the aid of government officials, and against the opposition of some tribal members.
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Sanders of the River
🇳🇬 Nigeria The 1930sHe Breaks Loose in the Jungle! — 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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Timbuctoo
🇲🇱 Mali'Girl's wastrel cousin and his valet go to Timbuctoo.' (British Film Catalogue)
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La Robe du temps
🇳🇪 NigerIn Zinder, the 2nd largest city in Niger, Ousseini is the young chief of the very traditional Brotherhood of Butchers. While trying to develop a channel for exporting beef from his region, he faces another challenge; he must legitimize his recently acquired role as a traditional chief while at the same time asserting his role as an innovator. The director follows the young Ousseini in his efforts. His movie summarizes the problems faced by young entrepreneurs, and provides a lesson in practical economics.
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Mr. and Mrs.
🇳🇬 NigeriaKenneth Abah, the managing director of hills group and the son of a famous and influential family is married to Susan, a graduate in law and the daughter of a dry cleaner. Thanks to Ken's social status and arrogance his loving wife becomes his maid. But when Susan becomes tired and complains, he proposes a divorce. Will she accept his proposal or continue with this domestic slavery?
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Falling
🇳🇬 NigeriaThis emotionally gripping tale tells the story of Imoh and Muna who believe nothing can come between them until Imoh has an accident that leaves him comatose for months. Will Muna hold out for him or will she pull the plug?
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Kontinuasom
🇨🇻 Cabo Verde The 2000s"Beti is a dancer in the Raiz di Polon company in Cape Verde. She receives an offer from Lisbon to join a Cape Verde music show and start a new career there. The offer unchains the deep-set Cape Verde conflict in her: identity built on the Diaspora century after century. Doubts, nostalgia, uprooting, they all soar over her and accompany her decision. The same dilemma that surrounds all Cape Verdeans, the yearning to leave, the yearning to return. Expressed and brought together around music, hallmark of the people of Cape Verde."
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Wild Grass
🇨🇮 Côte dIvoireThe trials and tribulations of a couple.
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La princesse yennega
🇧🇫 Burkina FasoPiece of african history
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