In seinem afrikanischen Dorf nennt ihn jeder 'Turbo', und diesen Spitznamen hat er verdient: Bando, 10 Jahre alt, ist ein echtes Fußball-Talent. Er träumt von der großen Karriere als Fußballstar. Als er den anderen Kindern seine Ballkünste vorführt, verursacht ein schlecht platzierter Treffer ein Unglück. Noch weiß Bando nicht, dass dieser Schuss sein Leben verändern wird. Er reißt von zu Hause aus und landet nach einigen Abenteuern in der Großstadt. Mit seinem Freund Bouba erklimmt er eines Tages das Dach des Fußballstadions und verfolgt gebannt das Geschehen. Als der Ball zufällig in seine Reichweite fällt, setzt er seine Fußballkünste in Szene hoch oben auf dem Dach, alle Augen auf ihn gerichtet. Bando landet im Gefängnis, doch der schlaue Geschäftsmann Bechir, der das Talent des Jungen erkannt hat, setzt sich für ihn ein und stellt ihn dem berühmten Trainer Karim vor, der eine Fußballschule leitet.
Manga und Sori sind noch Schüler, als sie sich ineinander verlieben. Dass sich ihre Klassen-kameraden über sie lustig machen, stört sie nicht. Aber als sie ihren Eltern von ihrer Liebe erzählen, stoßen sie auf Ablehnung und Unverständnis. Soris Vater, ein angesehener Geschäftmann, möchte, dass sein Sohn in seine Fußstapfen tritt, und sorgt dafür, dass die beiden Liebenden in getrennte Klassen versetzt werden. Mangas Mutter sieht ebenfalls all ihre Hoffnungen in ihren einzigen Sohn zerstört. Unter dem Druck versuchen beide Jungs, gegen ihr Schwulsein anzugehen. Manga sucht bei einer traditionellen Heilerin Hilfe, um seine Liebe zu ‚kurieren’, später geht er erfolglos eine Beziehung zu einer jungen Frau ein. Sori zieht auch mit einer Frau zusammen und wird Vater. Doch am Ende sehen die beiden jungen Männer ein, dass sie nur voreinander geflüchtet sind, und ihre Liebe triumphiert gegen alle Widerstände.
Thierno Souleymane Diallo sets out with his camera in search of the birth of filmmaking in Guinea. Charming and determined, he traces his country’s film heritage and history and reveals the importance of film archives.
In Kouroussa, his native village, little Baba lives happily, between Madou, his father, a gifted mechanic, Kouda, his sweet mother, and his gang of pals. Kouroussa is a wonderful place where Baba learns about life. But like all little boys Baba grows and now he is old enough to continue his studies in Conakry. He must say farewell to his village and cross all Guinea to the capital city of Guinea to live with his uncle.
Bella, a 30-year-old Guinean cabaret singer, lives a miserable, dangerous life as a prostitute in Dakar. Though she longs for escape, a gang of pimps, led by Kèba, treat her like property and make sure she keeps in her place. Her only hope is the thought of earning enough money to escape and reunite with her daughter, who she gave up at birth at age 15—a desperate act that haunts Bella’s nightmares and fills her with guilt. While fleeing an angry client, she meets Yélo, a Guinean worker for the United Nations, who happens to be passing through Dakar. Instantly smitten, Yélo agrees to help Bella, and so begins an epic journey of redemption, from Guinea to Paris. But can the young couple escape the clutches of the menacing Kèba?
While teenagers John and Tom, who live in a refugee camp in Guinea Conakry, go from housebreaking to robbery in order to survive, Satou, similarly to many other destitute young women, turns to the streets. Things go from bad to worse and Tom - soon followed by John - gets stuck in a downward spiral of extreme violence. Will Mémé their grandmother and also a refugee, be able to save them?
BB works as a political cartoonist at a liberal newspaper, his more outrageous efforts duly appreciated but not necessarily published by his boss. He's in love with the boss’ lovely, talented computer-scientist daughter, Kesso. But his choice meets with stiff opposition from his strict Muslim father Karamako, who is the chief of his village as well as imam of Conakry, especially when Kesso becomes pregnant with BB’s child.
An African mother will do just about anything to protect her child. Bilaly is a simple peasant who is blind. He wants to “know” a woman before he dies, but try as his mother might, she cannot find someone to oblige. She finally gets an idea – an idea that completely stuns the village.
Amok deals with the apartheid system in South Africa. It sheds light on the terror, misery, theft, drug addiction, and violent death common under apartheid. (MUBI)
African drummer leaves village, makes it big in the world. Great drumming!!
Filmmaker David Achkar searches for his father, Marof Achkar, who was sent to the notorious Camp Boiro prison in 1969 for treason.
Three childhood friends relaunch a mineral water factory in Guinea.
Every evening during exam season, as the sun sets over Conakry, Guinea, hundreds of school children begin a nightly pilgrimage to the airport, petrol stations and wealthy parts of the city, searching for light to study. This evocative and poignant documentary shows how children reconcile their daily lives in one of the worlds poorest countries with their desire to learn.
"Conakry" is a homage to the Guinean-Bissauan and Cape Verdean anti-colonial leader Amílcar Cabral. This poetic film is a single shot 16mm film staged at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin and based on the archival images. The film-maker Filipa César, invited the Portuguese writer and artist Grada Kilomba and the American radio activist Diana McCarty to reflect on the images and their history, questioning what these film archive mean in a post-African liberation world.
"Minka tells the story of the friendship between two children, Minka and Kany. Minka's father and mother have died. His step-father Karfa is the boss of the village community. Karfa's brother is owner of the source of income in the village, the granite mine, where many adults and children work. Karfa is a callous man who treats Minka badly. The girl Kany can no longer bear seeing Minka treated so badly. She calls on the children of the village to go on hunger strike. Karfa is furious, the terrible consequences are for Minka." - IFFR.
Yaguiné and Fodé, schoolboys who try in vain to find work to help their poor families. Lured by the symbols of Western affluence and power that surround them, the two stow away on a flight to Europe.
A portrait of the mythical band Bembeya Jazz, which contributed to the heyday of Sekou Touré’s cultural revolution in Guinea. Created in 1961 in the heart of the rainforest, Bembeya Jazz rapidly became modern Africa’s greatest orchestra. 50 years later, immerse yourself in the history of a legend that livers on!
Short documentary film telling the story of the peaceful coexistence between humans and chimpanzees in Guinea, West Africa – and the way that bauxite mining (for aluminum) now threatens to destroy the home of both.
Mathias was born in Guinea, in Fria, in the sixties. Fria was built at that time, by Pechiney, to exploit bauxite. The Lenault's, Mathias' parents, were one of the many French expatriate couples. Mathias left Guinea seven days after his birth, along with his mother. Mathias is of mixed race, Mr. and Mrs. Lenault have always been white.
Felix lives in Paris with his friend Dou who he met in Africa. Felix is depressed and attempts suicide.
In The Embassy, Filipa César takes an old album of colonial photos showing landscapes, people, architecture and monuments in Guinea-Bissau in the forties and fifties as a basis for thinking about the codes of representation of former Portuguese colonial power and the way memory is produced. Furthermore, these images are shown by a Guinean archivist who tells the story of his country seen through his own eyes.
Upon his return to France, sergeant Bakary claims the bride he had chosen. But she refuses this imposed marriage.