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With no Forest left to hunt and no land to cultivate, the Maby-Guarani depend on the sale of their handcraft to survive. Three young Guarani filmmakers accompany the daily life of two comunities united by the same history, since the first contact with the Europeans until the intense coexistence with today’s White people.
Manga tries to tell his parents he is gay and in love with Sory, another twenty-year-old. His parents don't believe him and his mother attempts witchcraft.
Every evening during exam season, as the sun sets over Conakry, Guinea, hundreds of school children begin a nightly pilgrimage to the airport, petrol stations and wealthy parts of the city, searching for light to study. This evocative and poignant documentary shows how children reconcile their daily lives in one of the worlds poorest countries with their desire to learn.
Thierno Souleymane Diallo sets out with his camera in search of the birth of filmmaking in Guinea. Charming and determined, he traces his country’s film heritage and history and reveals the importance of film archives.
Filmmaker David Achkar searches for his father, Marof Achkar, who was sent to the notorious Camp Boiro prison in 1969 for treason.
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?
In the ‘land without evil’ humans will find peace, according to the Guaraní. Not far from Rio de Janeiro, they have built a village where they can live according to their customs and their children can grow up equally influenced by ancient traditions and the modern world. The uncommented observation of their everyday lives full of games, laughter and music enables the audience to pose questions – and to search for their own right answers.
A historical epic that chronicles the Guineans’ long struggle against French colonialism and for their country’s independence.
Bineta, a young girl orphaned by her mother's death, faces even greater tragedy when her father is poisoned by his own family members, who are after his inheritance. After her father's death, she is thrown out of her home by her uncle. However, she is taken in by a kind woman who supports her and helps her continue her education. Despite the challenges, Bineta's determination allows her to succeed and build a stable life, fulfilling the dreams her father had for her.
BB works as a political cartoonist at a liberal newspaper, his more outrageous efforts duly appreciated but not necessarily published by his boss. He's in love with the boss’ lovely, talented computer-scientist daughter, Kesso. But his choice meets with stiff opposition from his strict Muslim father Karamako, who is the chief of his village as well as imam of Conakry, especially when Kesso becomes pregnant with BB’s child.
Farmer Moussa Sidibé is sent to France by his village in Guinea to buy a new water pump to irrigate the fields of their cooperative. But when he arrives in Paris, half of the money he was given is stolen. He then finds himself in totally unexpected situations, notably among the African undocumented immigrants who occupy a church.
The story takes place in Luque, on the banks of the Yukyry stream, where Juanchi is going to take a dip after playing soccer on a hot summer afternoon. The child plays innocently in the stream when he suddenly shows respiratory failure after ingesting some water. It happens what is least expected, all the people dress in mourning for the tragic death of this child, thinking that he died drowned when in fact it was something else. The child's sister and the local doctor begin an investigation and that's when they'll wish they'd never started it by learning everything that's going on behind it.
A narrative of the connection of Indigenous Peoples with the Earth and its Spirituality, from the point of view of the indigenous Olinda, who develops a project for environmental recovery in the lands of her people. With the indigenous worldview as a lens, Kaapora and other spiritual characters are the center line of the film's narrative and argument.
A musical about a young girl, Naitou, whose mother is assassinated by a jealous stepmother. The stepmother abuses Naitou and prevents her from taking part in the traditional initiation for all young girls. The stepmother is finally punished by an old lady who symbolizes justice. The film's originality lies in the fact that it is narrated through dance and music by the Ballet National de Guinée.
An audiovisual poem about life, death, body and nature, totality, loneliness and connectedness.
Tells the story of women's struggle for emancipation. A woman who works on an equal footing with a man and, in addition, bears the burden of household chores, this woman, the film asserts, is today becoming an important force in the new African society.
The viewer is brought along on an adventure in the style of a GoPro-travel documentary. Different blocks are merged together; a backstreet in Accra leads to a shore in Sierra Leone, with a soundtrack of Swedish pop music – and behind every corner lies a makeshift gym, a slaughtered hen, or a tailor of fake Dior suits in Guinea-Conakry.
While the agouti's husband looks for food, she meets the monkey. Based on a narrative of the Kawaiweté people, this is the first cinematic experience of women between 18 and 70-years-old from the Xingu Indigenous Land.
Felix lives in Paris with his friend Dou who he met in Africa. Felix is depressed and attempts suicide.
A newlywed young man, when going to the woods to check his animal traps, is constantly harassed by his younger sister-in-law. But after going back to the village, he finds out she never left the place. Short film made during audiovisual workshops in the Guarani village Tenonde Porã.
Guarani-Mbya people believe that every being in this world, even animals that are hunted, have a spirit/owner watching over them. Some of this 'owners' can get really vindictive if they feel disrespected in any way...
Two very different police officers must go on a mission to try to dismantle a mafia organization. They meet Sira and FC, two independent female journalists who denounce the corruption put in place by this organization. This quartet, despite differences and tensions in the way they each carry out their profession, will attack these criminals in order to bring down the thinking heads of this mafia network. Will they manage to come together to resolve this investigation and put an end to the corruption that is plaguing the country? Full of hilarity and action, this is fast-moving Guinean humour at its best.
Tells the story of women's struggle for emancipation. A woman who works on an equal footing with a man and, in addition, bears the burden of household chores, this woman, the film asserts, is today becoming an important force in the new African society.
The thunder is warning, "The earth is sick." To cure it, David Kopenawa gathered in Roraima the Yanomami shamans from various regions. With the help of the spirit food, the hallucinogenic yãkoana powder, they will treat the ills caused by cities and white diseases.
