Oblivion Tree
Filmed in Ouidah, which was once home to one of Africa’s biggest slave trafficking ports, the artist walks 437 times around the Tree of Forgetfulness, which men were made to encircle seven times in a rite meant to erase
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Filmed in Ouidah, which was once home to one of Africa’s biggest slave trafficking ports, the artist walks 437 times around the Tree of Forgetfulness, which men were made to encircle seven times in a rite meant to erase
In Guimbereru, a small village in Benin that seems lost in time, a young man from the community begins a personal search on the challenges of the generation gap between the inhabitants.
"From the Ayiti of the Indians to the liberation war which led to the independence of Haiti, this documentary tells us about the various fights that men have waged on this land in order to free it from the yoke of servit
What if we were to let children grow up in freedom? This is the experiment a school in Berlin has embarked on. This film plunges us into the everyday life of these children, and what it reveals raises fundamental questio
It is a documentary joining 3 periods of filming in the Mouchouanipi, which is a faraway land in the North of eastern Canada.
Photographer and visual artist Sammy Baloji’s fascinating film essay explores the Democratic Republic of Congo’s colonial history and its ecological significance. Drawing on research from the 1930s, the film highlights t
A young Parisian in quarrel with his father goes to join his uncle who runs a sawmill in the provinces.
A bold and eclectic cinematic style defines the work of filmmaker Michka Saäl and her friend, writer Nadine Ltaif as they journey from childhoods in the Middle East to their chosen home of Montréal. Saäl is Jewish, Ltaif
Following in the footsteps of pioneers like Émile Cohl, the brilliant inventor and self-taught artist Louis Van Maelder created a body of work of unparalleled richness and inventiveness by drawing directly onto the film
The neighborhoods of a quiet city. Traversing a wasteland Pierre looks for the memory of his father, missing as war photographer, and opens his horizons. With unusual parameters the film tempts to open a direct access to
The last part of the triptych is dedicated to the struggle of the peasant communities of northeastern Brazil; on the banks of the São Francisco River, the indigenous residents of the village of Caiçara fight to keep thei
Tradition and AIDS in Africa. What to do when the respect of tradition is at odds with the community's health?