13 Films & TV Shows Set In Niger
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Running the Sahara
🇪🇬 Egypt 🇱🇾 Libya 🇲🇱 Mali 🇲🇷 Mauritania 🇳🇪 Niger 🇸🇳 SenegalThree men attempt to become the first humans to run coast to coast across the Sahara Desert — A small film crew tracks three extreme runners across the Sahara desert, capturing their incredible journey on camera, recording this landmark moment in athleticism, in humanitarianism, and in history. The "Running the Sahara" expedition is a documentary film narrated by Academy Award™-winner Matt Damon and directed by Academy Award™-winner James Moll. The "Running the Sahara" documentary explores the physical and emotional impact of this tremendous test of strength and determination. The film's narrative follows the runners on their quest, each step toward the finish line building in great anticipation of answering the question: Can this amazing human feat truly be possible?
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For the Best and for the Onion
🇳🇪 NigerThe Galmi purple, the onion from Niger, pervades West African markets with four hundred thousand tons a year. In Galmi, Salamatou's been waiting for her wedding for two years. Her father Yaro, urged both by her future in-laws and the village gossip makes a decision : "The wedding will take place at the harvest !" Yaro is aware that to be up to his commitment this time, he has to produce more and sell at a higher price...
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Arlit: The Second Paris
🇳🇪 NigerDocumentary on the lives and hopes of the people living in Arlit, Niger and working in its uranium mine.
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Hitman
🇷🇺 Russia 🇹🇷 Turkey Africa - General 🇳🇪 Niger The 2000sMost believe his very existence is a sin. But others know he is a necessary evil. — A genetically engineered assassin with deadly aim, known only as "Agent 47" eliminates strategic targets for a top-secret organization. But when he's double-crossed, the hunter becomes the prey as 47 finds himself in a life-or-death game of international intrigue.
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Sahara
🇲🇱 Mali 🇳🇪 Niger 🇳🇬 Nigeria Africa - GeneralDirk Pitt. Adventure has a new name. — Scouring the ocean depths for treasure-laden shipwrecks is business as usual for a thrill-seeking underwater adventurer and his wisecracking buddy. But when these two cross paths with a beautiful doctor, they find themselves on the ultimate treasure hunt.
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Sarraounia
🇳🇪 Niger The 1890sOn 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.
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Babatu
🇳🇪 NigerOnce 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.
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Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! Mr Chicken
🇳🇪 NigerThe story follows three poultry sellers on a trip across the bush, attempting to deliver a load of chickens to a market in Niamey.
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The Polygamous Wazzou
🇳🇪 NigerAn 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.
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Little by Little
🇳🇪 NigerAn African travels to Paris to learn about the construction of tall buildings, but is soon taken up with the oddities of French life.
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Jaguar
🇬🇭 Ghana 🇳🇪 Niger Africa - GeneralJaguar, a kind of road movie on foot, tells of the journey of three friends, Damouré, Lam and Illo, on their way to the Gold Coast where they hope to make a fortune in order to return to their village in a few months.
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Le Niger, jeune république
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La Robe du temps
🇳🇪 NigerIn Zinder, the 2nd largest city in Niger, Ousseini is the young chief of the very traditional Brotherhood of Butchers. While trying to develop a channel for exporting beef from his region, he faces another challenge; he must legitimize his recently acquired role as a traditional chief while at the same time asserting his role as an innovator. The director follows the young Ousseini in his efforts. His movie summarizes the problems faced by young entrepreneurs, and provides a lesson in practical economics.
