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In a ruthless underground tournament, the world's top assassins fight to the death. But hidden among them is a rogue crew with its own deadly agenda: infiltrate the competition, survive the bloodbath, and take down the mastermind pulling the strings.
Aya, a young Ivorian woman in her early thirties, says no on her wedding day, to everyone’s astonishment. After emigrating to Asia, she works in a tea export shop with Cai, a 45-year-old Chinese man. Aya and Cai fall in love but can their affair survive the turmoil of their past and other people’s prejudices?
This short documentary addresses the global issue of climate change, highlighting its unequal impacts on rural communities in deltaic regions of both the Global South and North. While the Global North is a major contributor to climate change, its devastating effects are most felt in the Global South, particularly in regions like Trarza, Mauritania, where agriculture is severely impacted. Similarly, the Terres de l’Ebre in Catalonia faces rising sea levels and land erosion, threatening local livelihoods. These shared challenges provide a rich opportunity for youth from both regions to engage in dialogue and storytelling.
On the 20th anniversary of the gruesome Christmas Eve murders at St. Agnes church, a demonic preacher returns to haunt that same town's residents.
Following the dealings of Mauritanian fixers ferrying migrants by sea, this film shows the human cost of irregular migration in West Africa. Interrogating the role of fixers as facilitators of the voyage across the sea as well as the casualties that occur, this asks if they are very different from 16th century slave catchers.
Ahmed’s father has only a day with his wife and son before he must return to war. With haunting, innocent cruelty, the children play games that mirror the adult world, leading them to discover the harshness of destiny
This film is a testimony. These are the images and sounds recorded throughout the area of struggle of the Saharawi people and they testify to their will to live free at home while placing the "Sahroui problem" in a real context. Ex-Spanish colony whose wealth is considerable, Western Sahara should, like many African countries, gain independence according to United Nations resolutions.
Maodo returns to his home in Nouakchott after a long trip. He resumes his old job as a traveling merchant to support his family. One night, the young family man returns late, which deeply worries his wife and son, who wander around the city looking for his whereabouts.
A documentary that critiques the neo-colonial destruction of indigenous African agriculture and economies, resulting in mass starvation.
The documentary that uncovers the creative, political, and spiritual journeys of China’s foremost 20th-century painter Chang Dai-chien (1899-1983). The film follows his unusual life journey from pre-Communist China to Argentina, the jungles of Brazil; his much acclaimed exhibits in Paris and Germany in the 1960s; as well as his final years in California and Taiwan, in a thirty-year exile in the West that has been shrouded in mystery. Through interviews and previously unseen archival materials, we follow three decades of this artist’s creative and spiritual quest far from his homeland.
BALLADE AUX SOURCES, Med Hondo’s first film, is a documentary about the journey of an African emigrant through his native land shortly after the independence of North Africa. This film allows us to glimpse the themes that are dear to Med Hondo: pan-Africanism and pre-colonial African history. It is presented as “restoration in progress” without sound, introduced by Annabelle Aventurin (cine-archives).
A matriarch is forced to confront a malevolent djinn that once haunted her past. A djinn folktale reimagined.
On the deserted highway Nouakchott-to-Nouadhibou, a young self-centered taxi driver meets a woman whose story becomes a stimulating experience on morality and responsibility towards women's rights.
Giovanni, a father, widower, and well-known Sicilian politician does not comprehend his son's homosexuality or his passion for acting. A family drama is born, made up of quarrels and distance from each other. Loneliness pushes the father to seek, through the Internet, a soul mate, hoping that it will fulfill his need for love.
We don't know much about our girl. We don't even know her name. She is involved in an accident where there were no witnesses. Her father takes this as an opportunity to deal with the situation much more flexibly than the girl would have expected.
Vento Di Terra (wind of the earth) is an Italian film about an 18 year old boy (Vicenzo Pacilli) from a poor suburb of Napoli, Italy who finds himself burdened by expectations of supporting his mother after his father dies from an unexpected heart attack. Working in a blue-collar factory job, Vince soon finds that he does not have enough money to support himself, let alone his frail recently widowed mother. His sister departs to Cassano to finally end her employment drought by getting a job in the local FIAT factory. Vince is left alone to support his mother. He gets involved in a heist, and then out of guilt confesses his sin to a close family friend, who suggests he joins the Italian army. In the army Vince meets a new found friend through his training period, and they are soon deployed together to the war torn state of Kosovo in the Former Yugoslavia, where he is exposed to the brutality of war.
A young artist reach out to a producer, switch to a dealer and kills his own producer and becomes a different person.