Director Youssef Chebbi delivers an artistic masterpiece that is relatable across borders, putting the viewer through a range of emotions until the last minute. ASHKAL was awarded the Étalon d’or de Yennenga at Fespaco 2023.
For this year’s #ArtCinemaDay, we are delighted to present the beautiful documentary by Alain Ughetto. The stop-motion animation film spirals through personal stories of love, labour, loss, war, and paradise.
Not far from Timbuktu, now ruled by religious fundamentalists, Kidane lives peacefully in the dunes with his wife Satima, his daughter Toya, and Issan, their twelve-year-old shepherd. In town, the inhabitants suffer, powerless, from the regime of terror imposed by the Jihadists determined to control their faith. Music, laughter, cigarettes, even soccer have been banned. Women have become shadows but resist with dignity. Every day, the new improvised courts issue tragic and absurd sentences. Kidane and his family seem to be spared the chaos that prevails in Timbuktu. But their destiny changes when Kidane accidentally kills Amadou, the fisherman who slaughtered “GPS,” his beloved cow. He now has to face the new laws of the foreign occupants.
Saga returns to his village after an absence of two years. Many things have changed. His fiancée Nogma has become his father’s second wife.
February 1939. Overwhelmed by the flood of Republicans fleeing the Franco dictatorship, the French government parked them in camps. Two men separated by the barbed wire will become friends. One is a gendarme, the other a cartoonist. From Barcelona to New York, the true story of Josep Bartolí, anti-Franco fighter and exceptional artist.
In partnership with BCBlunt Films and Alliance Française Lagos, Screen Out Loud will present BURKINA BABES, DARK ROOM, THE BROKEN MASK, and MY FATHER’S BOOK, all directed by Kagho Idhebor.
A seamstress with commitment issues faces strong opposition from her half-brothers when she decides to take care of the ailing father who had abandoned her as a child.
Soula, a young single mother rejected by her family in the name of honor, trying to survive, finds herself caught up in a spiral of violence.
Labidi, a young writer in love and in debt, is struggling to complete his first novel after the success of his short story.
The lives of three teenagers and a hitman intertwine in a tale of violence and loss.
