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Mauritania, officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania (Arabic: الجمهورية الإسلامية الموريتانية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-Islāmīyah al-Mūrītānīyah), is a sovereign country in Northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Western Sahara to the north and northwest, Algeria to the northeast, Mali to the east and southeast, and Senegal to the southwest. By land area, Mauritania is the 11th-largest country in Africa and the 28th-largest in the world, and 90% of its territory is situated in the Sahara. Most of its population of approximately 4.3 million lives in the temperate south of the country, with roughly one-third concentrated in the capital and largest city, Nouakchott, located on the Atlantic coast. The country's name derives from the ancient Berber kingdom of Mauretania, located in North Africa within the ancient Maghreb. Berbers occupied what is now Mauritania beginning in the third century AD. Arabs under the Umayyad Caliphate conquered the area in the late seventh century, bringing Islam, Arab culture, and the Arabic language. In the early 20th century, Mauritania was colonized by France as part of French West Africa. It achieved independence in 1960, but has since experienced recurrent coups and periods of military d... ()
Languages used in Mauritania: Arabic | Wolof


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Black Tea(2024)

1h 50min | Drama, Romance / Love

Aya, a young Ivorian woman in her early thirties, says no on her wedding day, to everyone’s astonishment. After emigrating to Asia, she works in a tea export shop with Cai, a 45-year-old Chinese man. Aya and Cai fall in love but can their affair survive the turmoil of their past and other people’s prejudices?

Oh, Sun(1973)

1h 38min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 7 votes)

The film Soleil Ô, shot over four years with a very low budget, tells the story of a black immigrant who makes his way to Paris in search of “his Gaul ancestors”. This manifesto denounces a new form of slavery: The immigrants desperately seek work, a place to live, but find themselves face to face with indifference, rejection, humiliation…until the final call for uprising. “Soleil Ô” is the title of a West Indian song that tells of the pain of the black people from Dahomey (now Benin) who were taken to the Caribbean as slaves.

The Game(1991)

23min | Drama, War
3.0/5 (with 3 votes)

Ahmed’s father has only a day with his wife and son before he must return to war. With haunting, innocent cruelty, the children play games that mirror the adult world, leading them to discover the harshness of destiny.

Sarraounia(1986)

2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

On 2 January 1899, starting from the French Sudan, a French column under the command of the captains Voulet and Chanoine is sent against the black Sultan Rabah in what is now the Cameroon. Those captains and their African mercenary troops destroy and kill everything they find on their path. The French authorities try to stop them sending orders and a second troop but the captains kill the emissaries who reach them. Sarraounia, queen of the Aznas, have heard about the exactions. Clever in war tactics and in witchcraft, she decides to resist and stop those mad men.

West Indies(1979)

1h 53min | Drama
2.6/5 (with 3 votes)

A single-set color musical tracing the history of the West Indies through several centuries of French oppression.

Beyond: An African Surf Documentary(2017)

1h 51min | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

Africa, Europe - Europe and Africa: Surfers live differently on each continent and Africa marks a special place - as surfing is in many places at its very beginnings. 'Beyond - An African Surf Documentary' follows locals along the coast of Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Senegal and Gambia into their homes, visits their home surf spots and takes a look into their surfing lives. Three months of shooting culminated in a 111 minute long episodic journey on a continent, that has the potential to be the next big thing in surfing.

Life on Earth(1998)

1h 1min | Comedy, Drama
2.8/5 (with 6 votes)

La Vie Sur Terre (Life on Earth) is a 1998 Malian comedy/drama film written and directed by, and starring Abderrahmane Sissako. It is set in the village of Sokolo and depicts rural life on the eve of the 21st century. Runtime is 61 minutes.The film earned Sissako awards at the Fribourg International Film Festival, the Ouagadougou Panafrican Film and Television Festival and the San Francisco International Film Festival.

Waiting for Happiness(2002)

1h 31min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 10 votes)

Before immigrating to the West, Abdallah travels to the coastal city of Nouadhibou, Mauritania, to visit his mother. Although he grew up there, Abdallah feels anything but at home in his old neighborhood: He can no longer speak the local dialect, and he wears western clothes that immediately cast him as an outsider. But, as Abdallah spends time with a young boy and an elderly electrician, he can't help but feel a sense of loss for the life he's abandoning.

The Black Wogs, Your Neighbors(1974)

3h 10min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A lucid, sincere and intricate political film, it demonstrates how French neocolonialism exploits migrant labor and exerts a cultural imperialism over their minds.

Directed by Med Hondo

Letters to Angel(2011)

1h 58min | Drama
2.5/5 (with 4 votes)

Film about a man who was sent to fight in Afghanistan years ago, where he converted to Islam. He now returns home only to find himself facing another kind of war.The front line in the decrepit Estonian town runs between Eastern and Western culture, men and women, common sense and madness. Somewhere amidst these battles is his daughter, who Kirotaja has decided to find after all the years of absence. His only leads are the sound of his daughter crying, heard once on the telephone, and a dog-eared notebook full of letters addressed to her. But the town has other plans for him and the women running it seem to take him for their savior from the nagging feeling of emptiness that has enveloped them.

Directed by Sulev Keedus

Rostov-Luanda(1998)

58min | Documentary
3.2/5 (with 2 votes)

Sissako visits a war-torn Angola after thirty years of war in search of a friend and thereby through interviews reflects on the lost utopias of a generation of Africans who experienced the liberation struggles. His camera is witness to the dislocation and despair of those he encounters living in Angola, however he also discovers the resilient spirit of Africa and optimism for its future in unexpected ways.

Safrana or Freedom of Speech(1978)

1h 50min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Four young African workers attempt to break the spell of their poverty-stricken lives in Paris by looking to small farmers on the Gold Coast for information adaptable to their own country.

Directed by Sidney Sokhona
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Hunger Of The World(1981)

1h 45min | Documentary

A documentary that critiques the neo-colonial destruction of indigenous African agriculture and economies, resulting in mass starvation.

Nemadis, the Years Without News(2000)

52min | Documentary

Documentary depicting the filmmakers' efforts to find a nomadic Mauritanian family they had filmed six years earlier in order to show them the recorded footage.

Waiting for Men(2007)

56min | Documentary
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

In Mauritania, a country seemingly bound by tradition and male dominance, three women speak freely about sex, love and money.

Directed by Katy Lane Ndiaye

Our Marine World Heritage(2010)

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

What do the Phoenix Islands in the Pacific Ocean, the Wadden Sea in the North Sea and Cocos Island National Park in Costa Rica have in common? These are just three of the 43 exceptional marine places inscribed on the World Heritage List and protected under UNESCO's World Heritage Convention. You'll get a peek at some of the crown jewels of our oceans and learn about UNESCO's Marine World Heritage Program.

Faraway Roots(2002)

1h 12min | Documentary

I travelled across Mauritania to find a tree that I saw from my window in Belgium. It wasn't a mythical tree, but rather one that could be anywhere. On my way, I met men and women who shared their perception of this quest and in doing so, in a roundabout way they shared some of their visions of the world and of existence. For some, my tree was the sign from the spirits, of the invisible or a call from light. For others, it was the symbol of a history, a culture or the end of a period in time. For yet others, it was a tree that you see only when you get lost...

Directed by Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd

Trail of Hope(2016)

15min

On the deserted highway Nouakchott-to-Nouadhibou, a young self-centered taxi driver meets a woman whose story becomes a stimulating experience on morality and responsibility towards women's rights.

Fatima, the Algerian Woman of Dakar(2004)

1h 29min | Drama

In the aftermath of the Algerian War, a young Algerian woman reaches a strange reconciliation with the Senegalese officer who raped and impregnated her.

Directed by Med Hondo - With Aboubacar Sadikh Ba, Amel Djemel, Larbi Zekkal, Thierno Ndiaye Doss, Mame Ndoumbé, Mahmoud Said, ...

Nationality: Immigrant(1975)

1h 25min | Drama

A Mauritanian worker, Sidi, works in France. Like most immigrant workers, he is employed to do the most difficult and dangerous jobs. Sidi and his comrades are exploited systematically and permanently, as much by their employers as by their own countrymen who are constantly able to offer false working papers, slums where immigrants buy at high cost their right to sleep. But faced with racism and economic exploitation, immigrant workers communicate, organise...

We Shall Have the Whole of Death to Sleep(1977)

2h 40min | Documentary

Documentary filmed over a period of four months, from 25 December 1975 to 5 March 1976, in the area of the former Spanish Sahara claimed by the people who lived there, the Saharawis, a people now mobilised and in arms (the Polisario Front) against Morocco and Mauritania, two states that have signed an agreement to share the territory.

Directed by Med Hondo

Days of Hope(2013)

1h 12min | Documentary

Somewhere in the desert of North Africa there are cadavers lying around, never ceasing to stare at the dreamlike landscape of deep blue skies and golden sand. With blank holes in their skulls and blackened skin, they fall prey for grave robbers specializing in illegal immigrants jumping the makeshift boats sailing up to Sicily. Those who manage to hold on to life on the boisterous waters embark on an equally dangerous journey to mainland Europe. Following the paths of immigrants balancing their lives in the shadow economy, this film unlocks a merciless narrative echoing the existential fright and the ceaseless longing for loved ones. Instead of plainly appealing to empathy, it confronts the viewers with the universal fear of abandonment and lonesomeness.

Directed by Ditte Haarløv Johnsen

Watani: A World Without Evil(1998)

1h 18min | Drama

Two men of different backgrounds lose their respective jobs, setting off a series of events that brings them together in tragic circumstances.

Directed by Med Hondo - With Patrick Poivey

October(1993)

36min | Drama
2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

Ira wanders around the streets of Moscow. She's pregnant with the child of Adrissa, an african student.