Hausa wird u.a. in Nigeria, Ghana, Niger, Tschad, Burkina Faso, Kamerun, Benin und Togo gesprochen und 4 Filme (zwischen 2015 und 2021) mit dieser Sprache wurden bislang erfasst. Die meisten dieser Filme wurden in Niger (2) gedreht. Besonders beliebte Genres für Hausa Filme sind Dokumentation (2), Drama (2) und Abenteuer (1). Zu den bekanntesten & erfolgreichsten Filmen zählen The Milkmaid (2020), Fati’s Choice (2021), Zerzura (2017) und Rain the Color of Blue with a Little Red in It (2015).
Prince goes Sahel in this colorful homage to Purple Rain. Set among the sub-Saharan Tuareg people, and reputedly the first feature film in their Tamashek language (which has no word for "purple," hence the title). Resplendent in a purple robe and matching chopper, smoking hot guitarist Mdou Moctar arrives in a music-mad Niger town and sets about wooing a local beauty, clashing with his pious father, and fencing with the jealous king of the local scene (Kader Tanoutanoute, as wily and dapper as Morris Day) until their climactic six-string shootout.
A Fulani milkmaid confronts religious extremists in rural Sub-Saharan Africa in a quest to locate her missing sister, but efforts to recapture her disrupted past prove complicated.
A beach reminds us of Fati’s recent past. She came to Italy by sea, without papers, pregnant for the fifth time. Longing for her children, she returned to Ghana six months later – without her husband. The people around her can’t understand this decision. “You’ve created a mess,” a friend says. “How do I tell people?” a sister asks. But Fati wants to provide for her family, even though she still has to liberate three of her children from the custody of her in-laws.