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Fanon 2024
Frantz Fanon, a French psychiatrist from Martinique, has just been appointed head of department at the psychiatric hospital in Blida, Algeria. His methods contrast with those of the other doctors in a context of colonization. A biopic in the heart of the Algerian war where a fight is waged in the name of Humanity.

Omen 2023 star_border 6.1
Between Brussels, Kinshasa and Lubumbashi, Augure borrows from magic realism to paint a portrait of “undesirables” and “sorcerers” through the intertwined stories of protagonists of different genders and generations, confronted with the prejudice and suspicion of those around them.

The Forest of Miss Tang 2023 star_border 6
It portrays a Teochew family over six generations in Swatow, China, from the 19th century to the present. As background, the film will set under the great upheavals of China and the temptation to migrate.

Rudy Gobert N°27 2023
No one believed in him, he hung in there. For the first time, the basketball player Rudy Gobert reveals himself. An inspiring destiny and a dive into the backstage of the NBA.

The Siren 2023 star_border 5
November 1980. Southern Iran. We are at the beginning of the Iran-Iraq war. Abadan, the capital of the Iranian petrol industry resists the repeated assaults of the Iraqi army, but is soon under full siege. Omid, a 14-year-old boy, has stayed back in the city, with his grandfather, waiting for his elder brother to come back from the frontline. Along with Omid, we discover several other uncommon characters, each one having stayed for a personal reason. Each one resisting in his own way. But as the Iraqi siege of the city hardens, Omid has to quickly find a way to save those he loves.

The Island 2023 star_border 6
Robinson is a doctor and unlike Robinson Crusoe, his solitude is voluntary but his island in the Mediterranean Sea is invaded by migrants, NGOs, guards. Friday is a castaway, the only one from his boat to have survived when sailing from Africa to Italy. During his strolls on the island, Robinson confronts his own solitude by keeping a diary - that works like augmented reality - filled with extraordinary beings and events, which both fill and trouble his daily life.

The Lost Souls of Syria 2023 star_border 6
Twenty-seven thousand photos of corpses, and bodies tortured in detention centers of the Syrian regime, are leaked in 2014 by a mysterious deserter with the code name "Caesar". Because of the geopolitical interests of some countries and the indifference of other nations, international justice refuses to prosecute the regime of Bashar Al Assad responsible for crimes reminiscent of Nazi or Khmer barbarism. Filmed throughout Europe over nearly four years between 2016 and 2020, the film recounts the behind-the-scenes and twists and turns of investigations and proceedings that will lead to the issuance of arrest warrants for the highest officials of Bashar al Assad's administration for crimes against humanity.

Funan 2019 star_border 7
Cambodia, once the ancient kingdom of Funan, April 17th, 1975. The entire country falls under the tyranny of Angkar, the communist party of the Khmer Rouge. The cities are abandoned, the population is thrown to the roads and forced to walk towards an uncertain future…

Faya - Journey to Freedom Release date not available
When anti-colonialist writer Anton de Kom returns to Suriname in 1933, he is brutally imprisoned. In jail, he finds a gateway to a mythological rainforest where he must find the inner strength to help his people by undergoing a life-threatening journey.

Black Wolf Release date not available
At the bottom of the wolf pack, a young black wolf avoids confrontation and tries to take advantage of the fruits of others labour. This alongside his growing popularity with the she-wolves, our Casanova greatly irritates the alphas of his pack. As he comes of age he fights for survival in his own cowardly manner, losing all of his family along the way. Attracted by some young females he finds a place in a new wolf pack and endures the dominance of a new alpha male wolf. Only at an older age does the black wolf rises up to the occasion to defend more than himself.Its a story about a wolf trying to become a wolf.

Ananda Release date not available
ANANDA (in French: La Javanaise) is a fictional story, based on historical figures and events, of a young girls journey to find freedom and return home. In 1893, free-spirit ANANDA (13), lives happily with her little sister Tika (8) and their grandmother EMBAH (53) in a seaside village in Java. Yearning to be a shaman like Embah, Ananda enters the forbidden jungle and encounters a fierce TIGER. Suddenly, the girl and the tiger are both captured by traffickers. Ananda is sent to Paris, France where she works as a model and servant for a bohemian painter who abuses her. On a quest to return home, Ananda escapes, disguises herself as a boy, and encounters the Tiger again at the Cirque Fernando, where Ananda finds a new family among the misfits of the circus.

Humbugged Release date not available
In a world of zany souls and colorful spirit-creatures, Jacob Marley is missing out on the party. His chaffey chains and lingering bitterness from working with mean-old-Scrooge has kept him from getting his wings. While the menagerie of whimsical characters around him sing boisterous songs and pull pranks on hapless humans, he wanders the cobblestone streets of London in a perpetual monologue of boo-hoo, poor me. His only friend is a quiet Raven who loyally looks out for him. But this all changes one Autumn day when Maybelline, Marleys tough-love angel parole ofﬁcer gives him an off-the-record opportunity: scare Scrooge into becoming a better man and Marley can earn his wings!

Hutsi Release date not available
The story is afterimage of the genocide that happened in Rwanda almost 30 years ago. We’ve assembled an incredible team of individuals, each with an immense sensitivity to the subject matter, who are helping us bring this story to life both in its literary and visual dimension. This film is an exploration of the search for hope and humanistic values in the face of unimaginable adversity.

Mami Wata Release date not available
In a small town in West Africa, the bodies of mutilated children are discovered. The population is gripped by psychosis and Mami Wata, an aquatic goddess, is accused of being the cause. Issa, a police inspector obsessed by the disappearance of his own child, decides to investigate the case. With the local police chief, Malika Dramé, they embark on a terrifying investigation, where the beliefs of some serve the power of others. A dark film, without concession, which denounces certain evils of Africa at the risk of awakening the spirit of the river…

Adam Release date not available
Haunted by the recent inexplicable suicide of his wife Bella, renowned Israeli writer and Holocaust survivor Adam Schumacher decides to put Bella’s story in writing and publish it as his final novel. As he is confronted with the onset of dementia, Adam reluctantly reaches out to Max Vérité, Bella’s old lover. Together the writer and his once publisher set out on a journey through their conflicting memories of Bella as they try to breathe life into her story, with all its beauty and pain.

Ducks Release date not available

Birds Don't Look Back Release date not available
One day, the decision is made: Amel, a 12-year-old orphan, will leave. This is by no means a matter of choice: her country is at war. Unfortunately, nothing goes as planned. At the border, Amel loses the family who are accompanying her and finds herself alone. Along her way, she meets Bacem, an army deserter and oud (oriental lute) player. Together, the child and the former soldier navigate through the pain of exile and learn to rebuild themselves.

Gladiators Release date not available
Boy Feug, a young Senegalese wrestler, meets Robert Diouf, a former legend of “lamb”, the wrestling with strikes acclaimed by a whole country. Diouf becomes his trainer, introduces him to the wrestling culture of his people, the Serer. Finally, he brings him to face the King of the Arena, the national champion, in a final fight with a dramatic apotheosis.

Sidi Kaba and the Gateway Home Release date not available
With the help of the goddess Mami Wata, Sidi Kaba, an 8‑year-old boy, tries to find his brother who has been taken prisoner by slave traders. A fantastic epic that delivers us along the road of slavery.

Melvile Release date not available
After more than twenty-five years of absence, Paul Rivest returns to Melvile. He knows this little town pretty well, having spent all his summer vacations there as a child with his grandmother. Feeling responsible for the death of his first love and his best friend in a fire that destroyed the region the summer of his fifteenth birthday, his return to Melvile forces him to stir up the past. As Paul discovers the real reasons for Ruth and Thomas’s death, his stay in Melvile turns into a nightmare because the town of Melvile is not done with him.

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African Empires 2023 star_border 8
A historical documentary series that proposes to discover the greatest kingdoms and empires of Africa before colonization. A highlight of the legacies left to the world today.