La Lutte Continue, Laurentine Bayala, 2017, Burkina-Fasso, 13 min
ORDUR
Momar Talla Kandji, 2018, Sénégal, 20 min
Kader,a collection agent at a real estate agency,lost his bag containing the company’s money. He goes to Mbeubeusse, a garbage dump, in search of this famous bag. There he meets Nguilane, a scraper, who recovers objects. She succeeds in recycling him in Mbeubeusse.
LA LUTTE CONTINUE
Laurentine Bayala, 2017, Burkina-Fasso, 13 min
Djata is killing herself to fill her family. She serves in submission her husband Ossana, who is preoccupied with winning the traditional wrestling competition. During the fight,he will lost to his opponent. At the same moment, Djata splits the crowd and dismays in surprise the wrestler who has just defeated her husband. She arches and asks to fight with Batiga the defending champion.
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?
UNE SOEUR
Delphine Girard, 2018, Belgique, 16 min
A night. A car. A woman in trouble. A call.
INCOMPRIS
Jures Koukpemedj,i 2019, Benin, 10 min
When a son doesn’t follow his parents expectation.
BLACK MAMBA
Amel Guellaty, 2018, Tunisie, 20 min
Sarra, a middle-class girl from Tunis, apparently leads the ordinary life that her mother has traced: she takes sewing classes and is about to marry a nice boy. But Sarra has other unacknowledged plans through which she wants to escape her present life.
SIMON PLEURE
Sergio Guataquira, Sarmiento, 2018, Belgique, 19 min
Following a breakup in love, the sadness of Simon is such that it overflows. It overflows within all his body.
MUNDELE
Matamba Kombila, 2019, Gabon, 9 min
In Mundele, the identity interrogations of the author of Gabonese and French origins that stages herself, a reflection of the perception of those around her, are a metaphor of the structural situation of Central Africa. From the hairdressing salon where her hair become the vector of questioning to her stroll in Pointe Noire from historic to iconic places, Mundele offers a vision of France-Afrique past, present, and future like a meditation, an intriguing dream
Q&A with filmmaker Delphine Girard moderated by Professor of Cinema Studies at City College, Boukary Sawadogo, Ph.D.
Reception after the screening food and drink
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