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Niger or the Niger, officially the Republic of the Niger, is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is a unitary state bordered by Libya to the northeast, Chad to the east, Nigeria to the south, Benin and Burkina Faso to the southwest, Mali to the west, and Algeria to the northwest. It covers a land area of almost 1,270,000 km2 (490,000 sq mi), making it the largest landlocked country in West Africa and the second largest landlocked nation in Africa behind Chad. Over 80% of its land area lies in the Sahara. Its predominantly Muslim population of about 25 million lives mostly in clusters in the south and west of the country. The capital Niamey is located in Niger's southwest corner. Following the spread of Islam to the region, Niger was on the fringes of some states, including the Kanem–Bornu Empire and the Mali Empire before more significant parts of its territory became included in states such as the Sultanate of Agadez and the Songhai Empire. It was colonized by France during the Scramble for Africa as part of French West Africa, becoming a distinct colony in 1922. Since obtaining independence in 1960, Niger has experienced five coups d'état and four periods of military rule. Niger's seventh and most recent constitution was enacted in 2010, establishing a multiparty, uni... ()
Languages used in Niger: French | Hausa | Fulah

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L’Arachide de Sanchira(1964)

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Mamy Wata(1990)

1h 30min | Drama

1968: Justin Ohounou is the Minister of the Interior Department. He is involved in scheming with a corrupt business man. His goal is to eliminate by all means his political enemy Christian Adegbe and all of the Adegbe Tribe.

Directed by Moustapha Diop - With Sidiki Bakaba, Sotigui Kouyaté, Philippe Ambrosini, France Zobda

Nimbe(2019)

1h 55min | Drama, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Nimbe is a story addressing the issues associated with drug abuse, some of the causes, how to identify and avoid such. - In a fictional universe comprising ten nations. Seeing the neighboring country become more and more powerful, a warlord organizes a competition to reveal the best warriors. Hearing the news, Dong Yilong, a valiant young villager decides to take up the challenge despite the doubts of his village. So begins the journey .

Directed by Tope Alake - With Toyin Abraham, Odunlade Jonathan Adekola, Rachael Okonkwo, Doyin Abiola, Sani Musa Danja, Broda Shaggi, ...

Hippopotamus Hunt(1950)

45min | Documentary
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

In 1946 ethnographic researcher Rouch had attempted to film a "Bangaoui," a hippopotamus hunt along the river Niger, but the results were unsatisfactory.Five years later, he returns and makes the extra effort to get it right this time.

Babatou, Three Pieces of Advice(1976)

1h 33min | War
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Once upon a time, in the middle of the last century, a great warrior named Babatou. Nigerian jumper from the region Dounga Gurunsi invaded the country and settled there. The brave prisoners were integrated into the army, women espoused. For fifty years, the adventurous young people from Niger Babatou went to live in the epic.

Directed by Jean Rouch - With Damouré Zika, Mary in Islam, Oumarou Ganda

August the First(2007)

1h 21min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

When Tunde's family throws him a graduation party at their homestead in New Jersey, little do they know that he's arranged for his long-estranged father to also attend. Will the reunion prove to be healing … or simply heated? Director Lanre Olabisi's heartfelt drama of family dynamics stars Ian Alsup, Dennis Rubin Green, Joy Merriweather, Sean Phillips and Kerisse Hutchinson.

Little by Little(1970)

1h 36min | Comedy, Drama
3.6/5 (with 5 votes)

An African travels to Paris to learn about the construction of tall buildings, but is soon taken up with the oddities of French life.

Directed by Jean Rouch - With Damouré Zika, Moustapha Alassane, Safi Faye

Saitane(1973)

58min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 2 votes)

A sorcerer (played by the director himself) controls all activities in a village. Manipulating the different parties, the sorcerer promises love, good health and riches in exchange for the most extravagant rewards. One day someone exposes him, and the sorcerer becomes the laughing stock of the whole village. Desperate, he throws himself of a cliff.

Directed by Oumarou Ganda - With Oumarou Ganda, Zalika Souley

Samba the Great(1977)

14min | Animation
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

The adventures of a legendary hero who, dazzled by the beauty of a princess in the hand asks. This imposes several trials he emerges victorious. Only death will eventually bring the two young men.

Directed by Moustapha Alassane

L'Envoyée de Dieu(2023)

23min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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Pam Kuso Kar (Breaking Pam's Vases)(1974)

13min | Documentary

In February 1974, Pam Sambo Zima, the oldest of the priests of possession in Niamey, Niger, died at the age of seventy-plus years. In his backyard, the followers from the possession cult symbolically break the dead priest's ritual vases and cry for the deceased while dividing up the clothes of the divinities.

Toula, or the Genie of the Water(1973)

1h 16min | Drama, Fantasy

The gods have declared the drought of the country. There seems to be no hope. A holy man summoned by the king requires the sacrifice of a young woman to put an end to their anger. A young man in love decides to go in search of water to save the girl from a tragic end, but when he returns with good news it's too late: the genie had his satisfaction and Toula has already disappeared in the holy swamp.

Directed by Moustapha Alassane, Anna Soehring - With Sotigui Kouyaté, Damouré Zika
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Return of an Adventurer(1966)

34min | Western
2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

Back from the US to his village in Niger, a man brings western outfits to his close friends, who immediately identify with cow-boys. A bloody western begins in the savannah...

Directed by Moustapha Alassane

Rain the Color of Blue with a Little Red in It(2015)

1h 15min | Drama, Music, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 3 votes)

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.

Directed by Christopher Kirkley

The Exile(1980)

1h 30min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 2 votes)

Based on a traditional African tale. A king has the habit whilst walking in disguise on the streets of his kingdom to listen to the wishes of his own people. One day he overhears two brothers daydreaming out loud about marrying the king's daughters, even if that meant being beheaded one year later. The weddings take place and one of the brother is decapitated one year later. The other one escapes execution at his wife's insistence. On a long journey full of surprising incidents, our hero himself becomes king of a village with wives and subjects. However, his earlier promise haunts him, and in order to save his family he accepts to be sacrificed.

Directed by Oumarou Ganda - With Oumarou Ganda, Zalika Souley

Women Cars Villas Money(1972)

1h 15min | Comedy, Drama
2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

Ali is the image of modern Africa. He happily returns from a football match on his motorbike but a nasty surprise is waiting for him at his parents' home: he finds Haoua, his bride-to-be, waiting for him. The wedding is celebrated shortly afterwards and the two begin living together under the same roof. They are strangers but cannot stand each other. Haoua is the classic traditional woman who has just arrived from the village, God-fearing and faithful to the laws of tradition. Ali's friends advise him to look for a second wife. He meets Henriette, an uninhibited and provocative city girl, the woman of his dreams. To meet Henriette's constant requests, Ali 'borrows' some money from the coffers of commander Soleymane, but he is discovered and ends up in prison. Henriette is furious and leaves him, whilst Haoua cries for him in despair.

Directed by Moustapha Alassane - With Sotigui Kouyaté, Zalika Souley

Horendi(1972)

1h 12min
4.4/5 (with 2 votes)

The title of this film translates literally as 'to put on a hori,' a hori being the Songhay term for ceremony of festival. Here it is used to refer to a ganandi, literally 'to make dance' This film concerns two women whom the zima [priest] had diagnosed some months before as being ill through possession by spirits. In the meantime, their families have gathered together the resources to pay for the musicians, dancers, and the priest himself to put on an initiation dance lasting seven days This is a film of documentation, simply recording various moments in the progress of the ceremony, without any form of explanation, neither in intertitle cards nor in voice-over. (Paul Henley, The Adventure of the Real)

Zerzura(2017)

1h 27min | Adventure, Western, Documentary
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Zerzura is a feature-length ethnofiction shot in the Sahara desert. Mixing folktales and documentary, the film follows a young man from Niger who leaves home in search of an enchanted oasis.

Directed by Christopher Kirkley

The Polygamous Wazzou(1971)

35min | Drama
2.6/5 (with 5 votes)

An Islamic faithfull returns from his holy pilgrimage to Mecca with the venerated title “el hadji”. On his return he falls in love with his daughter’s friend Santou, who is already engaged to be married to Garba. El Hadji however already has two wives and his second wife, Gaika, cannot stand the idea of another younger wife entering her house. She plots to kill Santou.

Directed by Oumarou Ganda

Shaki(1973)

25min | Documentary
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Alassane considers the mingling of traditions during the coronation of the new Shaki king of the Oyo state of western Nigeria.

Directed by Moustapha Alassane

Baabu Banza (nothing gets thrown away)(1985)

1h

In a district of Niamey, in Niger, craftsmen and consumers save all that is possible and "make new with the old.".

I'm Tired of Standing, I Lie Down(1997)

1h 30min

Two parts magical drama and one part straight documentary, this outing from famed ethnographic filmmaker Jean Rouch is set somewhere in Nigeria near a small village.

Above Water(2021)

1h 30min | Documentary
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

12-years-old Houlaye lives in Niger, and travels several kilometers each day to fetch water. The village got together to construct a well. This is the promise of a new life for people who have literally been walking on water since birth.

Agwane, mon village(1982)

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La Pileuse de Mil(1962)

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VW-Voyou(1973)

19min | Comedy, Documentary

A man rides a VW Beetle through the plains of Niger.

Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! Mr Chicken(1974)

1h 33min | Comedy
3.6/5 (with 3 votes)

The story follows three poultry sellers on a trip across the bush, attempting to deliver a load of chickens to a market in Niamey.

Directed by Jean Rouch - With Damouré Zika

The Death of Gandji(1965)

4min | Drama, Animation

An animated film made with humor and tenderness whose action takes place in a small village in the African bush.

Justice at Agadez(2006)

1h 18min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

In the Western African country of Niger, the official justice system of this former French colony is based on the Napoleonic Code. A small percentage of the population still subscribe to superstitious beliefs and seek the advice of traditional healers. But in this largely Muslim nation, many citizens seek justice from the local Islamic judge, or 'Cadi,' who interprets Koranic Law.

Initiation into Possession Dance(1948)

22min | Documentary

Ritual of introduction, for a Songhaî young woman from Tillabérie, in Niger, to the dance of possession devoted to "Kirey", genie of thunder.

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