Moma Lova, Jeff Taver 2018 France
BABA SIFON
Lauren Pantaleon 2019 la Réunion 26 min
Erick, a divorced father, realizes that his 6-year-old daughter, Elisa, has gone back to her mother's house, forgetting her baby comforter, a baba sifon with whom she spends a lot of time. He decides to cross the island hitchhiking to bring the blanket to his baby comforter , and this before the night falls.
LA POUPEE
Kouraogo Isabelle Christiane ,Cote d’Ivoire-Maroc, 13 min
Story of a meeting between a man and a woman: a meeting that will upset and change the course of their lives.
E’VILLE
Nelson Makengo, 2019 , Republique Democratique, Congo, 12 min
“E'Ville”, short for Elisabethville until the city was renamed Lubumbashi in 1960. Filmmaker Nelson Makengo takes viewers on an introspective journey through the abandoned ruins of a Gécamines mining facility, set to the haunting soundtrack of Patrice Lumumba's final letter to his wife Pauline, written shortly before his assassination in E'Ville
COUCOULEURS
Oana Lacroix 2018 Suisse 6 min.
In a large forest where single-colored birds live,everyone has found his place in a tree that looks like him. But what happens when a bird has two colors?
PHYSIQUE DE LA TRISTESSE
Theodore Ushev, 2019, Québec.Canada, 26 Min
The Physics of Sorrow tracks an unknown man’s life as he sifts through memories of his youth in Bulgaria through to his increasingly rootless and melancholic adulthood in Canada-Québec.
FALTA
Claver Yameogo 2018 Burkina-Faso 7 min.
Trapped in the fight against terrorism.
MACHINI
Frank Mukunday & Ted Tétshim, 2019, Republique Democratique Congo-Belgique, 10 min
By force of circumstances and especially the machine we became sleepwalking beings deprived of God, the damned of the earth and guinea pigs over-the black market
MAMA LOVA
Jeff Taver 2018 France 16 minutes.
Adèle's teenage son was recently killed during a brawl between rival gangs in the projects. The investigation has stalled, leaving Adèle at a loose end, unable to grieve, and neglecting her two other children, Marian and Djibril. But confronted by a violent assault by young Tarick, Adèle convinces herself to take up boxing classes. The impunity of drug trafficking and deliquency leads to tensions developing, especially with regard to Tarick, whose business is booming. Adèle must show courage and fighting spirit in order to protect her other children.
Q&A with filmmaker Theodore Ushev moderated by Professor of Cinema Studies at City College, Boukary Sawadogo, Ph.D.
Reception after the screening food and drink
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