Jan

Border Life

FILM IN POSTPRODUCTION Border Life STORY Border Life, shot in a border town between Benin and Nigeria, is a contemplation of space and movement. Of life pulsing through a locality set up to divide. Of unstoppable mobility where mobility is circumscribed and controlled. The camera doesn’t fix things in place; it wanders. From checkpoint to...
Jan

Arlit

FILMS Arlit STORY Arlit is a case study in environmental racism set in a uranium mining town in the Sahara desert of Niger. Here European corporations extract nuclear power and profits leaving behind disease, contamination and unemployment. Ironically the primary activities of Arlit today is waiting, waiting to die of radiation related sicknesses or to...
Jan

Indochina Traces of a Mother

FILMS Indochina - Traces of a Mother Between 1946 and 1954, over 60 000 African soldiers were enlisted to fight the Viet Minh.Pitted against one another by circumstances, these two colonised peoples came into contact and a number of African soldiers took Vietnamese women as wives. Out of these unions, numerous mixed-race children were born....
Jan

Si-Gueriki

Film Si-Gueriki BUY NOW Idrissou returns to his village after having spent ten years in Europe. His father has died in the mean time. He discovers the living conditions of his sisters and nieces, and especially the place his mother holds today. During his childhood, she was just one of his father’s wives, a shadow...
Aug

Transient

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.
Aug

Fake Soldiers

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.