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A documentary about the life and activism of Jaha Dukureh, a Gambian anti-female genital mutilation campaigner who returns to her country of birth to confront the harmful tradition that she and 200 million women and girls have undergone globally.
A Gambian family is at dilemma whether they should go see a traditional healer or go to a hospital after their daughter catches malaria by a mosquito bite.
The Mirror Boy is a mystical journey through Africa, seen through the eyes of a 12 year old boy, Tijan. After a London street fight, in which a local boy is hurt, Tijan's mother decides to take him back to their roots, to Gambia. On their arrival in Banjul, Tijan encounters a strange apparition, a boy smiling at him in a mirror and vanishing. Seeing the same boy in a crowded street market the next day sets in motion a chain of events, with Tijan finding himself lost. While Tijan's panic-stricken mother struggles to find her son, Tijan is left alone in the company of the enigmatic Mirror Boy, seemingly only visible to him. After a bruising spiritual rite of passage, The Mirror Boy takes Tijan on a mystical journey, but not all is what it seems.
It focuses on human rights issues. It provides insights into the situation of teenage girls who are given out to marriage by their parent without their consent or knowledge and how their education and future carriers are being affected along the way.
Recording a 24-hour period throughout every country in the world, we explore a greater diversity of perspectives than ever seen before on screen. We follow characters and events that evolve throughout the day, interspersed with expansive global montages that explore the progression of life from birth, to death, to birth again. In the end, despite unprecedented challenges and tragedies throughout the world, we are reminded that every day we are alive there is hope and a choice to see a better future together. Founded in 2008, it set out to explore our planet's identity and challenges in an attempt to answer the question: Who are we?
'SARATA' is about love and betrayal faced by young women as they seek to better their lives. She is an orphan, beautiful, well brought-up in the village. She's in love with Abdou and wants to marry him but will not have sex before marriage
The ten-piece afro-helvetic band “King Kora” starts a tour through Gambia, the home country of its kora player and singer Lamin Jobarteh. The band travels for nine days on a boat on the river Gambia, stopping at eight villages and cities along the shore to perform, and finally giving three large concerts on the coast. But what they find in this country does not always meet their expectations…
After surviving a tragic sea accident along the coast of Mauritania while on his “backway” journey to Italy, Bakary, despites losing his best friend and over fifty other young fellows, returns to The Gambia to confront the hardship of the Gambian economic realities he fled away from. Will he be able to achieve his goals or will he decide to embark on the journey again?
2019 Mandinka language film from Gambia
A documentary portrait of twenty-year-old Amie Lowe, whose father disappeared during Yahya Jammeh’s violent dictatorship in The Gambia when she was only 3 years old. The personal portrait that emerged illuminates the intimate and small in the interminable wake of unresolved loss.
Saggi Kaita, his wife and three children (born in Spain), along with his brother, Mahamadou, travel home to their village, Diabugu, Gambia, for the first time since they emigrated to Spain over ten years ago. The reason for the journey is the wedding of Mahamadou and the girl (now a woman) to whom he had become engaged before emigrating.
A multimillion-dollar business, a beautiful young wife, and all the trappings of success should make any man happy, but Ansu is a serial adulterer and it is breaking Amie, his young wife’s heart. For Ansu, prevention is the key when playing around with other women, but he fails to realise that what he fears the most will haunt his heart forever because one wrong move is all it takes.
When a young Gambian returns to his home country after having lived illegally in Babylon, Europe, he is changed far more than his family had wished for…
14 year old Njillan, one of the top students in her class, has just been awarded a government scholarship to pursue her secondary education. Excited to share this achievement with her family, she is welcomed with bad news: Her father has given her away in marriage to Sengan, despite the protests from her mother.
After a family drama, Omar, a turbulent child, faces new responsibilities. He’ll have to meet the Kankurang to become a man and embrace adulthood.
The film explores the struggles of youth amidst poverty and the desperate search for a better future. Through one man’s journey, the film reflects the harsh realities that push many young Africans to risk everything for the dream of Europe.