This film-within-a-film, set in the Rwandan capital of Kigali, follows the futile attempts of a determined filmmaker to fund his first feature, The Cycle of the Cockroach, a haunting drama about a brother and sister in the aftermath of genocide.
The government refuses to finance his film but the filmmaker, Balthazar, hides the bad news from his team and continues prepping.
Together with Imane, Nawal and Asma, her companions in misfortune, she lives at a frenetic pace, working by day and pulling fast ones by night, with all the freedom and energy of those who will not give up.
As Islamist groups continue to spread terror, Rashid, a young Jihadist, leaves the mountains to return to his village.
Bîr d’Eau, a Walkmovie offers us a day in a street of Algiers during which a film is made and unmade under the camera's eye.
The film also documents a generation of politically and socially engaged Africans whose aspirations are formed by their parents’ experiences, and whose ambition to forge a better future starts from building from the ground up.
In response to the call of the National Liberation Front, thousands of Algerians from Paris and its suburbs march to protest against the curfew imposed on them on October 17, 1961.
Blending testimonies and previously unseen stock footage, the film retraces the events of that day and reveals the strategy and the outrageous methods applied at the highest levels by the French state.
While the Arab world faces a radical change, Tunisia, after having set light to the sparks to the revolution, is once more the "lab" country as regards its view of religion.
One day Namir Abdel Messeeh, a filmmaker of Egyptian origin, watches a videotape of the Virgin Mary's apparition in Egypt with his mother.
Skeptical about the videotape, Namir travels back to Egypt to make a film about these apparitions but he soon discovers plenty of obstacles.
The result is a humorous fictional documentary and family-drama-cum-culture-clash about religion in the Diaspora, the art of cinema and the boundless creativity of filmmakers.
A father and a son spend the weekend fishing on the banks of a magical lake set against the lush sceneries of the Moroccan Rif.
Amine, a young Algerian man, buys a video camera at a store in Oran and uses it to start recording his city, his house and, finally, his girlfriend and mother.
The moral suffering and the feeling of guilt become unbearable, up until the point where they surpass his abysm of despair, making him rethink what he thought would be his liberation.
Illegal immigrant, in search of her husband who refuged to England, Leila wishes to offer to her children a better life and tries to survive by raising them in the clandestinity.
From frantic hope to redemptive tears, her emotions are similar to the landscape featured in the film, evolving with the seasons - a metaphor of the destiny of a continent undergoing a profound change.
Yvette, or the reality of a woman in the village of Perkouan (Burkina Faso), which we will discover while she is at her daily chores, in her environment and her thoughts... Who Killed Me offers a glimpse in to the life of a lower class Congolese immigrant in Toronto before, during and after he is shot and murdered outside his workplace.