Films

Border Life

At the edge of Benin and Nigeria, where smuggling meets survival, Border Life captures the pulse of a border town in motion, no fixed characters, just lives hustling through a landscape built to divide.

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Arlit

Arlit is a case study in environmental racism set in a uranium mining town in the Sahara desert of Niger.

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Indochina Traces of a Mother

The film tells the stories of African colonial soldiers conscripted to fight for the waning French Empire in Indochina while also unveiling the tragic stories of Afro-Vietnamese children born during the war.

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Si-Gueriki

After being away for ten years, the filmmaker returns home for a documentary on his father who was a member of a royal family. Instead, he makes a film about his mother and other women in his family who he had hardly known previously.

Transient

After a hypnotic night of dancing with an enigmatic woman, a man wakes up unable to recall her name, but as he searches for her, reality and dream blur, leading him into a surreal odyssey where African cosmology collides with the European cityscape, trapping him in the grip of an unforgettable encounter.

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Fake Soldiers

In late 1990s Germany, where basketball, hip-hop, and breakdancing reign supreme, awkward Tamu envies the effortless cool of his friend Obi. But when Obi trains him to pass as an American soldier; turning pretense into popularity; Tamu soon faces the challenge of keeping up the act without losing himself in the illusion.

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