Afrique and Diaspora : Amiens International Film Festival

BARCELONE OU LA MORT
France – 2007 A few flimsy boats set sail from a suburb in Dakar to Europe, with their passengers threatened of drowning in the Atlantic. R/D : (...) Read more ...
EN ATTENDANT LES HOMMES
Belgium/Mauritania – 2007 Oualata, in the extreme East of the Mauritanian desert. In that isolated place, a short-lived protecting wall against (...) Read more ...
GRAINES QUE LA MER EMPORTE
France/Cameroon – 2007 A large number of children in Africa dream of sailing in a pirogue to Spain, leaving their house and family, in spite of (...) Read more ...
LA BRÈCHE
Belgium/Senegal – 2007 In Saint-Louis, Senegal, it is customary to bring offerings to the water spirits when a child gets born. R/D : ABDOUL (...) Read more ...
LA DISCORDE
Senegal – 2008 Paulèle’s familly left France to attend her grandmother’s funeral. Once in Africa, her father, Aliou, decided to stay and try to (...) Read more ...
NOS LIEUX INTERDITS
France – 2008 In 2004 the King of Morocco created the Reconciliation Commission in order to investigate state violence during the «years of lead». (...) Read more ...
OULED LENINE
France/Tunisia – 2007 At age 20, they fought for Tunisian independence and there was no limit to what they could hope for. This is a special (...) Read more ...
PATCHWORK
Belgium/Senegal – 2007 Idrissa Mbaye and Fa Ndiaye rule together in a household of about thirty people, who all live under the Baye Fall (...) Read more ...