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The Mauritanian
🇲🇷 Mauritania The 2000s The 2010s The 1980sA detainee at the U.S military's Guantanamo Bay detention center is held without charges for over a decade and seeks help from a defense attorney for his release.
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Night of the Kings
🇨🇮 Côte dIvoireA film about resistance and the power of words in the face of violence. — A young man is sent to "La Maca," a prison in the middle of the Ivorian forest ruled by its inmates. As tradition goes with the rising of the red moon, he is designated by the Boss to be the new "Roman" and must tell a story to the other prisoners. Learning what fate awaits him, he begins to narrate the mystical life of the legendary outlaw named "Zama King" and has no choice but to make his story last until dawn.
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Eyimofe (This Is My Desire)
🇳🇬 NigeriaYou have a dream. Life has other plans. — A man and a woman in Lagos want to escape their everyday lives, but extricating themselves is no easy task. Two stories narrated with tenderness and restraint that only fleetingly touch, the dream of migrating to Europe floating above them all the while.
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One Lagos Night
🇳🇬 NigeriaA desperate man attempts to burglarize the home of a wealthy woman, but finds himself face-to-face with a crew of armed robbers who have the same idea.
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Swallow
🇳🇬 Nigeria The 1980sSet in the 1980s, Tolani Ajao is a bank secretary in Lagos, who finds herself persuaded by her friend Rose Adamson to enter the world of drug trafficking.
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Adú
🇲🇷 Mauritania 🇸🇳 SenegalIn a desperate attempt to reach Europe and crouched before an airstrip in Cameroon, a six-year-old boy and his older sister wait to sneak into the holds of an airplane. Not too far away, an environmental activist contemplates the terrible image of an elephant, dead and fangless. Not only do you have to fight against poaching, but you will also have to meet the problems of your newly arrived daughter from Spain. Thousands of kilometers to the north, in Melilla, a group of civil guards prepare to face the furious crowd of sub-Saharan people who have begun the assault on the fence. Three stories linked by a central theme, in which none of its protagonists know that their destinies are doomed to cross and that their lives will no longer be the same.
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The Lost Okoroshi
🇳🇬 NigeriaHaunted by dreams of an ancestral Okoroshi masquerade, a disillusioned security guard wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a mute, purple spirit, in Abba Makama’s surrealist romp through the sprawling city of Lagos.
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This Lady Called Life
🇳🇬 NigeriaBecoming a chef is Aiye’s greatest desire. But. She is a young, struggling, single mother who has been abandoned by her family. To settle for defeat, or to fight against all odds to become the chef of her dreams? That is the question.
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Atlantics
🇸🇳 SenegalEvery love story is a ghost story — Along the Atlantic coast, a soon-to-be-inaugurated futuristic tower looms over a suburb of Dakar. Ada, 17, is in love with Souleiman, a young construction worker. But she has been promised to another man. One night, Souleiman and his co-workers leave the country by sea, in hope of a better future. Several days later, a fire ruins Ada’s wedding and a mysterious fever starts to spread. Little does Ada know that Souleiman has returned.
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Yao
🇸🇳 SenegalFrom his village in northern Senegal, Yao is a 13-year-old boy ready to do anything to meet his hero: Seydou Tall, a famous French actor. Invited to Dakar to promote his new book, the latter goes to his country of origin for the first time. To fulfill his dream, the young Yao organizes his fugue and brave 387 kilometers alone to the capital. Touched by this child, the actor decides to flee his obligations and to accompany him home. But on the dusty and uncertain roads of Senegal, Seydou understands that while rolling towards the village of the child, it also rolls towards its roots.
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Only the Animals
🇨🇮 Côte dIvoireA woman has disappeared. The day after a snowstorm, her car is found on a road leading to a plateau with nothing but a few scattered farms. The gendarmes have nothing to go on, while five individuals well know they have something to do with the woman's disappearance. They all keep their secrets to themselves, but no one suspects that the whole story began far from these windswept wintry peaks: on another continent, in the burning sun, where poverty doesn't stop desire from taking the law into its own hands.
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Plan B
🇳🇬 Nigeria The 2010sOne night. A brutal break up. A drinking spree, and a one night stand with a mysterious man. Few months later and pregnant, Lisa Waweru, a broke stylist, discovers this mysterious man to be Dele Coker, a successful Nigerian CEO based in Nairobi and expanding in East Africa. She and her best friend Joyce, must come up with the perfect plan to have him pay his dues. This must change their lives forever!
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Burning Ghost
🇧🇯 BeninJuste wanders the streets of Paris looking for people only he can see. He collects their last memory before helping them into the afterlife. One day Agathe, a young woman, recognizes him. She belongs to his previous life. She is alive and he is a ghost. How will they manage to love each other and seize this second chance?
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The Bling Lagosians
🇳🇬 NigeriaAs each member of the Holloway family work to solve their problems, they prepare for Mopelola's party, clearly to become the year's biggest society event. But the buzz about the party compels the Asset Management Corporation to foreclose on ST. IVES, the family business, after the death of his God Father Baba Eko who had been protecting Akin Holloway. He must then fight a bigger battle - getting Mopelola to cancel her party and maintain a low profile to get them off the radar, while he tries to save the business.
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Òlòtūré
🇳🇬 NigeriaHer quest to expose the truth takes her to the verge of no return — In Lagos, Nigeria, young, naive Nigerian journalist Òlòtūré goes undercover to expose the shady underworld of human trafficking. Unused to this brutal environment, crawling with ruthless traders and pimps, Òlòtūré finds warmth and friendship with Blessing, Linda and Beauty, the prostitutes she lives with. However, she gets drawn into their lifestyle and finds it difficult to cope. In her quest to uncover the truth, she pays the ultimate price - one that takes her to the verge of no return.
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Living in Bondage: Breaking Free
🇳🇬 NigeriaNnamdi Okeke son of Andy Okeke from Living In Bondage 1 is an ambitious young man who wants more out of life. Snag is, he can’t afford the kind of life he wants with.....
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Bissau Diary
🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau The 2010s"Diário de Bissau" was filmed in 2017 and reports the daily life of the capital city of Guinea-Bissau. By reading the newspaper Diário de Bissau, which the film is named after, we take notice of the local news. This reading is intercut with the testimony of Martinho Barbosa, a Guinean who witnessed Guinea's recent history and presents his view of the key issues facing the country.
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4th Republic
🇳🇬 NigeriaAfter the gruesome murder of her campaign manager Sikiru, gubernatorial aspirant Mabel King challenges the victory of the incumbent, Idris Sani for her mandate. While governor Sani’s associate, St. Jamesand Ike’s Law School rival, Danladi attempt to subvert the course of justice by eliminating witnesses, King is supported by her loyal aide Ike, and Sikiru’s daughter Bukky.
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Sugar Rush
🇳🇬 NigeriaThe Sugar Sisters discover a whopping $800,000, the financial crimes commission and the supposed owners of the money come for them. Now they team up with unlikely allies and it’s a race against the clock to set things right.
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Black Panther
🇳🇬 Nigeria The 1990s The 2010sLong live the king. — King T'Challa returns home to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as his country's new leader. However, T'Challa soon finds that he is challenged for the throne by factions within his own country as well as without. Using powers reserved to Wakandan kings, T'Challa assumes the Black Panther mantle to join with ex-girlfriend Nakia, the queen-mother, his princess-kid sister, members of the Dora Milaje (the Wakandan 'special forces') and an American secret agent, to prevent Wakanda from being dragged into a world war.
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Hondros
🇱🇷 Liberia The 2000s The 2010sHONDROS follows the life and career of famous war photographer Chris Hondros by exploring the poignant and often surprising stories behind this award-winning photojournalist's best-known photos. Driven by a commitment to bear witness to the wars of our time after the events of 9/11, Chris was among the first in a new generation of war photographers since Vietnam. HONDROS explores the complexities inherent in covering more than a decade of conflict, while trying to maintain a normal life. It also examines the unknowable calculus involved in making split-second life and death decisions -- before, during and after his photos were made. Chris was killed in Libya in 2011, but he left a lasting impact on his profession that is still felt today.
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Sudani from Nigeria
🇳🇬 NigeriaWhen a soccer club manager brings one of his injured foreign players home to recuperate, they form an unlikely bond despite their cultural differences.
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Nigerian Prince
🇳🇬 NigeriaAfter being sent to Nigeria against his will, a stubborn Nigerian-American teenager, joins forces with an internet scammer, in order to return to the United States.
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Up North
🇳🇬 NigeriaA young rebellious heir from a wealthy family is sent away to National Service in Northern Nigeria. Things don't quite go according to plan as the spoiled heir begins to find himself.
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Merry Men: The Real Yoruba Demons
🇳🇬 NigeriaFour promiscuous businessmen must scheme to save the poor people of a village after a corrupt politician challenges them.
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Azali
🇬🇭 GhanaThrust into Accra by circumstances, a 14-year-old girl from northern Ghana must endure life in the slums of Accra and find a way to get back home — 14-year-old Amina from northern Ghana gets sent away to Burkina Faso by her mother to prevent her marriage to an elderly man. However, fate intervenes in the form of kidnappers who bring her to Accra. What trials and tribulations await Amina in the slums of Accra? Will she ever find a way to escape?
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Lagos Real Fake Life
🇳🇬 NigeriaLagos Real Fake Life is a true life comedy movie that showcases the realistic and so so fake lifestyle of some people who reside in, or even visit LAGOS. For some it’s “Stay Content and Wait” and for others its “FAKE it Till you MAKE IT”.
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The Last Face
🇱🇷 Liberia 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone 🇳🇬 Nigeria The 2000sMiguel, a heroic Spanish doctor, puts himself in harm's way to deliver medical treatment to the victims of military uprisings in Africa.
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Okafor's Law
🇳🇬 NigeriaA slick serial seducer bets his friends that he can bed three old flames in six weeks, in this risqué comedy from the director of the smash hit Wives on Strike.
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10 Days In Sun City
🇳🇬 NigeriaA potpourri of love, drama, passion and culture, "10 Days in Sun City" is a comedy-drama that sees Akpos on another ‘adventure’, this time, to South Africa, with his girlfriend Bianca.
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Isoken
🇳🇬 NigeriaEveryone in the Osayande family worries about Isoken. Although she has what appears to be a perfect life - beautiful, successful and surrounded by great family and friends - Isoken is still unmarried at 34 which, in a culture obsessed with marriage, is serious cause for concern. Things come to a head at her youngest sister's wedding when her overbearing mother thrusts her into an orchestrated matchmaking with the ultimate Edo man, Osaze. Osaze is handsome, successful and from a good family, making him the perfect Nigerian husband material. But in an unexpected turn of events, Isoken meets Kevin who she finds herself falling in love with and he just might be what she truly wants in a partner. The only problem is, not only is he not an Edo man, he is Oyinbo (Caucasian). Isoken is a romantic dramedy that explores cultural expectations, racial stereotypes and the bonds that unite families in a touching, dramatic and comedic way.
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The Wedding Party 2: Destination Dubai
🇳🇬 NigeriaIn "The Wedding Party" sequel, Nonso has continued his romance with Deirdre, the bridesmaid from London. Nonso manages to propose by accident, while on a dinner date, and sets off a chain of events too powerful to stop.
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Banana Island Ghost
🇳🇬 NigeriaAfter he dies in a car accident, a man receives three more days on Earth to find his soul mate.
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Slow Country
🇳🇬 NigeriaA homeless teenage mother, who gets herself trapped in prostitution and drug trafficking for seven years in order to secure a good life for her son, decides to quit but her boss, a ruthless human and drug trafficker is not ready to let go of his most trusted cash cow.
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Captain America: Civil War
🇳🇬 Nigeria The 1990s The 2010sDivided We Fall — Following the events of Age of Ultron, the collective governments of the world pass an act designed to regulate all superhuman activity. This polarizes opinion amongst the Avengers, causing two factions to side with Iron Man or Captain America, which causes an epic battle between former allies.
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Green White Green
🇳🇬 NigeriaA coming of age a story about 3 young boys from Nigeria's major ethnic groups on an adventure to make a short film inspired by the history of Nigeria.
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76
🇳🇬 Nigeria The 1970sNollywood superstars Ramsey Nouah, Rita Dominic, and Chidi Mokeme headline this gripping drama set against the backdrop of the attempted 1976 military coup against the government of General Murtala Mohammed.
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93 Days
🇳🇬 Nigeria The 2010swhat happens when the most lethal and contagious disease known to man arrives in a mega city of over 20 million people? — Bimbo Akintola, Danny Glover and TIFF Rising Star Somkele Iyamah-Idhalama star in director Steve Gukas’ riveting real-life thriller about courageous health-care workers in Lagos battling the Ebola outbreak of 2014.
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The Wedding Party
🇳🇬 NigeriaA lavish wedding escalates into pure Lagosian chaos, in this wild romcom produced by media mogul Mo Abudu.
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Wùlu
🇲🇱 MaliMalian-French director Daouda Coulibaly's auspicious debut is a pulse-pounding political thriller. Wùlu tells the unsettling tale of a man's rise from the bottom rung of the social ladder to the heights of criminal power.
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Tout, tout de suite
🇨🇮 Côte dIvoire The 2000sThis gripping and wrenching thriller tells the story of Ilan Halimi who was kidnapped for ransom in a Paris suburb. His captors, who dub themselves The Gang of Barbarians, operate under the assumption that his Jewish heritage means he is worth a lot of money. Taking the audience through the harrowing experience of the Halimi family and sharing a searing insight into Ilan's vicious ordeal, the story tracks the massive but futile investigation doomed by near-misses and tragedy that triggered a national outcry. For 24 days the police, insistent upon handling the case as a normal for-ransom kidnapping, failed to recognize the anti-Semitic overtones of the abduction. Faithfully reenacting events from the view of the various characters, Tout, tout de suite raises troubling questions about the state of anti-Semitism and race relations in contemporary France.
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Like Cotton Twines
🇬🇭 GhanaWe are the keepers of our freedom. — An American volunteer teaching in a school in Africa must save one of his students, a 14 year old girl from religious slavery.
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Ojukokoro (Greed)
🇳🇬 NigeriaGreed — Ojukokoro tells the story of what happens when a broke manager in a money laundering petrol station, decides to rob the petrol station that employs him but along this journey finds out that there are different kinds of criminals that are also interested in the same cash.
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It's Her Day
🇳🇬 NigeriaAfter a man promises his fiancé a dream wedding, he must keep up with her outrageous requests to have the most lavish ceremony possible.
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Freetown
🇱🇷 LiberiaThe true story of faith, courage, and survival. — A group of native Liberian missionaries make a desperate cross-country trip through their war torn country to save one of their own.
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What Happened, Miss Simone?
🇱🇷 Liberia The 1960sHer story. Her voice. — The film chronicles Nina Simone's journey from child piano prodigy to iconic musician and passionate activist, told in her own words.
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Our House
🇲🇱 MaliBamako. Several women are illegally evicted from their home in 2008. Their brother, Souleymane Cissé, takes up his camera to look back at his childhood and family history in a country heading for war despite a tradition of tolerance.
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Iyore
🇳🇬 NigeriaIyore means “The Return: A Life After Life“. It is based on the history and the culture of the people of Benin, Nigeria. Iyore – a mixture of historical facts and fiction – explores a tragic love story centered on the rich culture of pre-colonial Benin through to the present day of Benin while exploring the supernatural ideas of reincarnation.
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Fifty
🇳🇬 NigeriaTola, Elizabeth, Maria and Kate are four friends forced at midlife to take inventory of their personal lives, while juggling careers and family against the sprawling backdrops of the upper middle-class neighbourhoods of Ikoyi and Victoria Island in Lagos.
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