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- 8 shorts centered around 8 themes directed by 8 famous film directors involved and sharing their opinion on progress, on the set-backs and the challenges our planet faces today.
- Through the plights of seven different children, seven cruel destinies unfold, as the unknown innocents who share the same sensitivities and desires struggle for survival, understanding--and above all--love, in an apathetic grown-up world.
- A collection of stories about and images of our world, offering an immersion to the core of what it means to be human.
- Footage shot in and around the Sahara Desert, accompanied only by a spoken creation myth and the songs of Leonard Cohen.
- When a woman shelters a group of girls from suffering female genital mutilation, she starts a conflict that tears her village apart.
- An American mercenary, the sole survivor of a plane crash, has to run the gauntlet across Africa, battling with the living dead.
- In the early 1920s, Georges Laffont, traumatized by the horrific trench warfar, decides to leave his life behind and travel to West Africa into the vast territories of Upper Volta in the company of Diofo, artist and also survivor of the Great War. From village to village, Georges uses Diofo's talents as a griot to recruit the villagers as labour for plantations in Ghana. But this adventure leads him to a dead-end, and he comes back to Nantes where his brother Marcel, a war invalid, lives with their mother's. After the war in Europe, life went on without him. Georges will desperately try to find his place, with the help of Helene, a sign language teacher with whom he will have a tumultuous relationship, and his family, that he selfishly left behind. He will finally attempt to heal their wounds...
- A look at the fast disappearing tribal customs of North Africa.
- A small village in Burkina Faso. The story focuses on Bila, a ten year old boy who befriends an old woman, Sana. Everybody calls her 'Witch' but Bila himself calls her 'Yaaba' (grandmother). When Bila's cousin Nopoko gets sick it is Sana's medicine who saves her.
- A 13-year-old boy is sent from his home in France to live with extended family in rural Burkina Faso.
- "The Prophet and The Space Aliens" follows Rael, who after an alleged encounter with extraterrestrials - that appointed him the "last prophet" - became the founder and leader of the world's biggest UFO religion.
- A man investigating his son's death learns some horrific truths about the pharmaceutical industry.
- The teachers Beyond deploying their profound commitment which goes above and beyond their primary job requirements. They have also turned teaching into a genuine adventure, changing the destinies of their pupils .
- Every year the most beautiful girl will be sacrificed to the Python God. When a girl named Sia is the next to be sacrificed, she hides in the house of the village idiot, a man who goes around shouting hyper-aggressive criticisms against everything. Sia is found by the soldiers but the army commander had for some time prepared a revolt against the emperor and saves Sia on the way. Will Sia reveals the terrible secret she learned about the Python God ?
- In a hospital in Burkina Faso, a man infected by HIV.
- In 2012, jihadists took control of Northern Mali, imposing one of the harshest interpretations of sharia law in recent years and, crucially for Mali, banning music. Radio stations were destroyed, instruments were burned and overnight, Mali's musicians were forced into hiding or exile where many remain even now. Follow these musicians as they fight to keep music alive. Featuring rare footage of the jihadists, a glimpse at life in refugee camps and the perilous journeys home to war-ravaged cities, THEY WILL HAVE TO KILL US FIRST is a tale of courage in the face of conflict as Malian musicians refuse to give up the fight for their right to sing.
- Samba Traore returns to his village flush with funds. Soon enough he manages to charm the beautiful Saratou into marrying him and, along with another friend, builds the first bar their village has ever seen. But his conscience keeps nagging him and the police are on the lookout for the "gas station murderer."
- Run escapes... He just killed the Prime Minister of his country. In order to do so, he had to act as if he was a crazy man, wandering through the city. His life comes back by flashes ; his childhood with Tourou when his dream was to become a rain miracle-worker, his adventures with Gladys the eater, and his past as a young member of militia, in the heart of the politic and military conflict in Ivory Coast. All those lives, Run didn't choose them. Everytime, he felt in by running from another life. That's the reason why his name's Run.
- A bee-keeper initiates fight against the society of consumption for saving the bees.
- When Lena and Ulli start the engine of their old Land Rover, Lady Terés, they have a plan: to drive from Hamburg to South Africa in six months. What they don't know yet is that they won't ever get there. Two totally different characters, jammed together in two square meters of space for almost two years, they experience what it really means to travel: leaving your comfort zone for good. Starting in Morocco, they quickly dive into the life of locals they meet on the road: Jamal, a Moroccan Berber who lives with his dromedaries in the Sahara, Ziza, a Mauritanian musician who fights against suppression from the government, Mame Sy, a mother who set up a private school for the poorest of the poor in Mauritania - and many more. Their journey leads them through the vibrant green canyons of Guinea, the scorching heat of Mali, and the amazing surf of Sierra Leone and Liberia. Everywhere they are, the two Germans make contact with the locals and demonstrate that real travelling is about more than plain sightseeing. But their long journey doesn't spare them the dark side of travelling: they are also confronted by corruption, sickness and even death. Setting out to discover a continent, their trip leads them down a very different road. One they did not expect: the journey to their true inner selves.
- A look at the disastrous effects a rain flood has on a termite community.
- Poverty and misery are rife in Gourga, a village in the Sahel. The inhabitants must choose: stay and await international assistance or leave for more fertile regions in the country.
- Yacouba Sawadogo, an illiterate farmer from Burkina Faso has transformed the lives of thousands of people across West Africa. Over cinematic reconstruction Sawadogo tells his incredible story of his battle with nature and man.
- Explores the rhythm and ritual life in the rural environment of six West African countries: Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Togo, Benin, and Senegal.
- A group of young women from the outskirts of Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, meet at the feminist education centre to study to become car mechanics. Ouaga Girls is a poetic coming-of-age story of sisterhood, life choices, and the strife of finding your own path.
- The story of two families - one in North America and one in Burkina Faso, Africa - that have joined together since 2004 to build the Paradise Orphanage in Kaya, Burkina Faso, without the help of government or public agencies.
- Broadcast from Indio, California, The Coachella Live: Curated featured three streams, 80+ bands, and 72 hours of content. 2019 included traveling tales from headliners and fan favorites across six continents, highlights from the Coachella Music and Arts Festival's two weekends, including in-studio interviews, artist commentary, original documentaries, animation short films and more. A Live viewership of 117 Million on YouTube for both weekends combined broke all YouTube records. Coachella Live: Curated was nominated for consideration for an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Informational Series or Special" by the Television Academy.
- Four women from different regions develop friendships during a bus journey across West Africa, as they accomplish an everyday journey while facing the universal challenge of being independent women.
- 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.
- An examination of the problem of child marriage--mainly young girls under the age of 18, and some as young as 11, being forced by family members and societal traditions to marry much older men--that is still existent in some parts of West Africa, and the efforts of human rights groups, women's groups and government agencies to stop it.
- A Nigerien peasant comes looking for work in Essakane, a dusty gold mine in Northeast Burkina Faso, where he hopes to forget the past that haunts him.
- Documentary following the 2011 Tour du Faso cycle race in Burkina Faso. Focusing on local stars and a German team.
- In West Africa, traditional society has no space for people with mental illness and epilepsy. Demons are traditionally seen as cause for their diseases which are wrongly considered contagious. They live on the outskirts of the villages, in prayer centers, or wander around unnoticed, often chained or beaten. Pastor Tankpari Guitanga has decided to help these people and has founded the local aid organization Yenfaabima - this revolutionary work is still just starting. LA MALADIE DU DÉMON (The Demon Disease) shows the situation of those affected and the everyday life of those who have decided to help within their modest possibilities.
- Widowed and recently retired, Mr. Michel leads a peaceful existence in the company of his dog, his books and his television set. But this quiet routine soon turns into a nightmare, with the onslaught of images from the television, showing the turbulence that shakes the world.
- A coming of age story of a young teenage couple as they struggle with an unwanted pregnancy and the pressures it brings. Their decisions separately and jointly have severe and dramatic consequences.
- Burkina Faso in 1987 is a country in the throes of revolution. Manu, an eight-year-old who loves comics, tags along with Albert, his big brother. When Albert decides to undergo a magic ritual to become invincible, Manu realizes there are real powers to rival those of his comic-book superheroes.
- A feature-length documentary about the plight of women in Burkina Faso and West Africa.
- A stream of awareness, ideas and initiatives flows and grows across West Africa like a powerful green vein fertilising the land.
- A short film inspired from SmashWerks Films' travels to Burkina Faso, Africa while filming documentaries for A Better Life Foundation.
- Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène reminisces about his career and discusses the craft of his films and novels. Topics of discussion are also the role of the artist in society and the politics of decolonisation.
- Inspired by the writings and field studies of the Japanese anthropologist Junzo Kawada, this short documentary unfolds the aesthetic and mythical power of a musical narrative, in context of the ritual, via the drum language of the Mossi.
- A small village lost in a dusty desert in Burkina's bush. Two times a week passes the train. Various food items and water bottles thrown by the passengers while passing by constitute the main income of the village, and the only source of water during dry season. Different portraits follow each others. The older one s have known slavery in the service of France, the young dream of distant horizons.
- An impossible love story between a boy from a well-off family and a high-end prostitute in today's Ouagadougou. Thom, a social fable and a thriller all at the same time, follows the descent into hell of two young people that simply aspired to emancipate themselves from their respective social backgrounds.