Maka Kotto

In April 1994, the middle-aged Canadian journalist Bernard Valcourt is making a documentary in Kigali about AIDS. He secretly falls in love for ...

Because of a motorcycle accident, a young man from the poor outskirts of Paris must find a steady job in order to avoid being sent to prison. He ...

Disturbing and violent memories haunt a man after he emerges from a lengthy coma.

Through an Internet service, a Montreal professor arranges for himself a Mexican bride. But both husband and wife, even with their good ...

A young Haitian (Michel Mpambara) who loves America visits his uncle (Maka Kotto) in Montreal.

Nothing gets by Simone, even though she’s blind. An adorable, incredibly precocious ten-year-old girl, Simone sets herself the task of ...

Lionel, a young Frenchman, who has just arrived in Cotonou, Benin, loses his car, airplane ticket and passport and his hopes in riots in the city.

A realistic look at the horrors of the slave trade, told entirely through the voice of a dead African slave whose spirit haunts the ocean route.

The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice ...

Olivia, Irina and Masha are improving their acting skills. They no longer believe in Prince Charming, and their career is waning. Olivia works at ...

Monsieur Naphtali is a good-natured but somewhat feeble older man turned away from the rest home where he lives. In search of a place to stay, he ...

Sucre Amer tells the story of a unique court case in which an event from the past is judged by a court of history. Major figures from history are ...

Lucien Hastier, known as “Lulu”, is a locksmith in La Courneuve and a communist activist. He had never known his parents and had been ...

A Greek-Irish sailor becomes friends with a 10-year-old sampan girl while his freighter is docked in Hong Kong.

It is only a few years into the future, but the face of France has changed drastically, due to its takeover by a moralistic, hypocritical and ...

Elle (Isabelle Gélinas) wants to make a film about African wildlife. Adrien (Eric Métayer) is obsessed with the idea of making love to Elle in a ...

The year is 1943 and the place is Balandou, a small village in Guinea. The plot revolves around Adjutant Mariani, some kind of a misfit. Despised ...

Idris is a young shepherd in the desert of Tunesia. One day a jeep drives by and a woman takes a picture of him; she says she’s from Paris ...

The recolonization of Africa, this time by the very blacks who had to flee it as exiles during the time of the original French occupation, is the ...

A warm summer in Montreal. Two black men, Man and Bouba, share an apartment. Man is an ambitious author, writing on The Great Novel. Bouba is a ...

The hopes and woes of a theater company in Africa.

Drama about a white young woman who finds a wounded black man in her house.

Loïc, a chestnut seller, has a mistress who wants a baby. Not daring to admit to her that he had the mumps late in life, he finds other excuses. ...