Current Films

Chef! is a film about frus­tra­tion. Frus­tra­tion in the face of grow­ing misery in a coun­try rich in nat­ur­al resources which are exclu­sive­ly there for the ben­e­fit of a pow­er­ful … read more

From Tan­za­nia and from Rwanda to Zaire, some half a mil­lion refugees from Tutsi-Hutu vio­lence streamed in to create boom town called Benaco. The new­com­ers – whose roles in Rwanda … read more

Iran­ian women seek­ing divorce meet with strong oppo­si­tion. Often, they stand help­less while their hus­bands win in law-suits and get the cus­tody of their chil­dren, even if they abuse them … read more

»In our islam­ic soci­ety , it’s always the woman who pays the price, why?« With these words a young Maroc­can woman sums up, the until today unbro­ken patri­achal dom­i­nance of … read more

JEF JEL is a doc­u­men­tary about the Islam­ic con­fed­er­a­tion of the Mourides in Sene­gal. Trav­el­ling from Dakar to Touba, where the move­ment was born, dis­ci­ples bear wit­ness to their reli­gion. … read more

Along an over­grown rail­track south of Kin­san­gani, ex-Stan­leyville, lost refugees are dis­cov­ered by an expe­di­tion of the UN. There are 80.000 (!) Hutus from far away Rwanda. They are the … read more

Nora has had a strict upbring­ing. Her familiy comes from Alge­ria and her par­ents are rig­or­ous in their main­te­nance of tra­di­tion­al cus­tomes. Nora has learned over the years to make … read more

Wrapped in their long boubous, car­ry­ing huge striped plas­tic bags, Sene­galese streetven­dors have become a common sight in big cities all over the world. From Dakar to Mar­seille, from Antwer­pen … read more

In Paris, Mon­sieur Sli­mani, an old man, wit­ness­es an assas­i­na­tion. Per­sued by the mur­der­ers, he escapes into a mosque. Dis­cov­er­ing, that the mur­der­er is a mighty person, he becomes anx­ious … read more

Made with the most rudi­men­ta­ry tools of film­mak­ing LECHE is a black and white film which exam­ines details of the lives of a rural mex­i­can family. The film was hand … read more

This three-parted film allows maghre­bin­ian immi­grants to speak: fathers (part I), moth­ers (part II) and their chil­dren (part III). With archive­ma­te­r­i­al and inter­views Yas­mi­na Ben­guigui analy­ses the »machin­ery« of immi­gra­tion. … read more

At the end of 1965 in the ex-Bel­gian Congo torn and exhaust­ed by five years of unrest, Gen­er­al Mobutu and the army set up a pow­er­ful state soon to be known as Zaire. The pop­u­la­tion is clev­er­ly kept under con­trol, the oppo­si­tion is muz­zled and nation­al­ism rein­vent­ed. For 30 years, Mobutu Sese Seko Wa Zaban­ga, Mar­shall of Zaire, equal­ly well known as the »The Guide of the Authen­tic Zairi­an Rev­o­lu­tion«, »The Uni­fi­er«, »The Peace Maker«, »The Founder Pres­i­dent« or »The Father of the Nation«, has ruled undi­vid­ed­ly, hand­ing out favors and dis­graces. To do this, he will sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly exploite the phys­i­cal resources of a coun­try that he’ll lead to ruin. For over a quar­ter of a cen­tu­ry he has con­tin­ued to wave the slogan »chaos or me«. The Zairi­an monarch, machi­aval­lian prince, remains dread­ed pre­cise­ly because he is feared. How­ev­er, his ill­ness and the rebel­lion in East Zaire has under­mined his credit-wor­thi­ness and author­i­ty and sub­se­quent­ly forced him to mis­er­able exile. His defeat was both mil­i­tary and polit­i­cal. A few months after his res­ig­na­tion he dies amidst com­plete polit­i­cal indif­fer­ence of the inter­na­tion­al community.

Pauli­na Cruz Suarez, now just turned 50, has worked as a maid in Mexico City since she was 15. She talks of her house­hold tasks and her cook­ing, until we … read more

How do we get along with each other when our views col­lide? This is a modern, urban ques­tion which is vital and uni­ver­sal. Four Egypt­ian women dare to answer this … read more

WOUBI CHÉRI is a doc­u­men­tary that looks at gay life in con­tem­po­rary Africa. The film takes place in the Ivory Coast and fea­tures a range of char­ac­ters from Vin­cent, a … read more

‘Ymako Téatri’, a the­atre com­pa­ny based in Ivory Coast, uses street the­atre to ques­tion some con­tem­po­rary West African prob­lems. Their orig­i­nal­i­ty con­sists in using the ‘invis­i­ble the­atre’ method in order … read more

»Que la parole soit claire / la vie tient en deux jours / le jour de la nais­sance, le jour de la mort / Laiss­er sa cul­ture pour une autre … read more