Ivory Coast Movies

Among the Senufo people of northern Côte d'Ivoire, the balafon (xylophone with calabash resonators) is an emblematic musical instrument. This...

Suggested by Mama Watta, a legendary water goddess who seduces men into captivity, the film depicts the symbolic encounter of a man and a woman one...

Armel, Ahmed, Antoine, Ezechiel, Rougeot and Issa are motorcycle cabs at the Ahougnansou train station. Criticized and marginalized, they show...

The viewer is brought along on an adventure in the style of a GoPro-travel documentary. Different blocks are merged together; a backstreet in Accra...

Fred, a single thirty something, manages a cinema. His sister, Maria, wants him to marry, but none of the women she introduces him to seem to his...

The scene is set in Southern Burkina Faso, and also in different parts of the Ivory Coast. Five women are shown with their daily burdens and one can...

Among the Senufo people of northern Côte d'Ivoire, the balafon (xylophone with calabash resonators) is an emblematic musical instrument....

That night, when he accidentally meets Commissioner Djama, Patrice GBOKEDE plunges painfully into a past that he thought was buried forever. Carried...

After accidentally starting a rumor that his brother has died, a hapless man doesn't want to give back the funeral contributions that he's received...

Rwanda, 2012. The country is emerging from an era of silence after the 1994 Tutsi genocide, and people's courts are being set up with the aim of...

The war has been declared between Good and Evil. Who will prevail: darkness or light?

Two men are lost on a small island. They only have a coconut tree and its nuts to hope to survive. Our two friends then launch into a war to take...

In Boutelfil, on the edge of the Chadian desert, a community gather to discuss the recent drought. For the first time in 30 years, they decide to...

The Niambwa is a tribe that worships the God Mask at the centre of their society, culture and politics. The Mask is mediator in conflicts and his...

A parody of a gangster movie. A group of Africans arrange to meet on a beach near Abidjan to organize a hold-up. They are ready to kill and they take...

Ymako Teatri, a theatre company based in the Ivory Coast, uses street theatre to question some contemporary West African problems. Their originality...

In the 21st century many ancestral beliefs are struggling to survive in a hostile, fast-changing world. In southeast Ivory Coast, some Akan...