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Lumumba: Death of a Prophet

  The film is a creative documentary where biography and history, stories and archives create a frame around the figure of Lumumba, his political assassination, media and memory. It is Read More

Chicken for Linda

  Guilt-ridden mom Paulette promises to cook a meal of chicken and peppers to make up for wrongly punishing her daughter, Linda; with a general strike closing down all of Read More

Casablanca Beats

  A former rapper teaches hip-hop music to students in an underprivileged Moroccan neighborhood. Despite differences in identity, religion and politics, he encourages them to bond together and break free Read More

The Count of Monte Cristo

  Edmond Dantes becomes the target of a sinister plot and is arrested on his wedding day for a crime he did not commit. After 14 years in the island Read More

Father & Soldier

  During World War I, in 1917, Senegalese Bakary Diallo enlists in the French Army in order to be with his 17-year-old son, Thierno, who was forcibly recruited. Sent to Read More

Scarlet

  Shortly after World War I, veteran Raphaël (Raphaël Thiery) returns home from the frontlines to find himself a widower, and father to an infant daughter. Raised by her father Read More

The Taste of Things

  Cook Eugenie and her boss Dodin have grown fond of one another over 20 years, and their romance gives rise to dishes that impress the world’s most illustrious chefs. Read More

Disco Boy

  After a painful journey through Europe, Aleksei arrives in Paris to join the Foreign Legion. In the Niger Delta, Jomo struggles against the oil companies threatening his village and Read More

Orpheus

  Jean Cocteau’s update of the Orpheus myth depicts a famous poet (Jean Marais), scorned by the Left Bank youth, and his love for both his wife, Eurydice (Marie Déa), Read More

Antigone

  Writer-director Sophie Deraspe’s incisive liberal adaptation of the Greek tragedy by Sophocles is the daring story of one young woman’s commitment to her family, even if it means sacrificing Read More