Découvrez une sélection de films français et issus de la Cinémathèque Afrique qui invite à voyager à travers les cultures et les réalités des pays où le français est une langue vivante et partagée.
Pour vos publics cinéphiles et curieux de découvrir d'autres horizons, ces projections sont une invitation à mieux comprendre les multiples facettes de la francophonie et à voir le monde à travers le prisme du cinéma.
« Première Page », rassemble onze courts métrages et permet à onze jeunes réalisatrices et réalisateurs diplômés d’écoles d’animation françaises de proposer une interprétation animée de la première page d’un livre de leur choix.
Cléane Ambry (diplômée de l’EMCA) - Sous le ciel bleu de la Guadeloupe d’Oruno Lara ;
Rabah Cheurfa (diplômé de l’Ecole Georges Mélies) - L’hôtel du Libre-Échange de Georges Feydeau ;
Marlène Ciampossin (diplômée de la Poudrière) - Histoire d’une montagne d’Elisée Reclus ;
Mathis Dubrul (diplômé de la Poudrière) - Le mystère de la chambre jaune de Gaston Leroux ;
Lucie Grannec (diplômée de l’Ecole des Arts Décoratifs) - Perceval ou le conte du Graal de Chrétien de Troyes ;
Francesca Loss (diplômée de la Poudrière) -Miracles d’Alain Fournier ;
Alexis Mouron (diplômé de la Poudrière) - Le Bonheur de Sully Prudhomme ;
LouAnn Nony (diplômée de l’Ecole des Arts Décoratifs) - L’homme qui rit de Victor Hugo ;
Dora Surdeau (diplômée du DMA - Institut Sainte Geneviève) - La légende des siècles de Victor Hugo ;
Mary Yanko (diplômée de Gobelins - l’école de l’image) - La princesse de Babylone de Voltaire ;
Emma Zwickert (diplômée du DMA - Lycée Marie Curie) - Criquet d’Andrée Viollis.
2012, John Dalli, the European Commissioner for Health, is accused of corruption and influence peddling related to the tobacco industry. French Member of the European Parliament José Bové, maverick politician and prominent figure of the environmental party, suspects a setup by the tobacco manufacturer Swedish Match, potentially involving the President of the European Commission, José Barroso. Standing alone against all odds, he decides to investigate and unravel this story, which shook the foundations of the entire European institutions.
Julien, a young teacher, is wrongfully accused of sexual misconduct by a teenage girl from his class. As he faces mounting pressure from the girl’s older brother and her classmates, the situation spirals out of control: allegations spread, the entire school is thrown into turmoil, and the teacher has to fight to clear his name.
Benjamin is a PhD student without scholarship support. Under the pressure of his parents, and in need of money, he becomes a substitute teacher in a middle school.
Without training nor experience, and facing a declining public educational system, he discovers how tough this job can be.
Hopefully, his supportive and committed colleagues will lead him to take a fresh look at the profession.
Fanny, a shy and lonely teenager, goes on a language exchange to Germany. In Leipzig, she meets her pen pal, Lena, a teenager eager to become politically active. Fanny is troubled. To win over Lena, she invents a life for herself, to the extent of becoming trapped in her lies.
Award-winning French writer Christine Angot is invited for business to Strasbourg where her father had lived and died several years ago.
It’s the city where she met him at the age of 13 for the first time, and he started to rape her. His wife and children still live there.
Angot takes a camera, and knocks on her family’s doors to push them for clarity about their attitudes to her father’s crime that lasted so many years.
A cinematographic journey challenging social norms and family perspectives in dealing with incest.
In hellish Casablanca, the burning love story between has-been rocker Larsen and the streetwise amazon Rajae sets ablaze a crazy Moroccan underworld in this story of passion, trauma and rock n’ roll.
Twenty-seven-year-old Mauricette Bonnarien works as a docker at the port of Dégrad des Cannes in French Guiana. The rest of the time, she slams. Conflicted about her family name ("Good-for-nothing"), imposed on her ancestor when slavery was abolished, she is fighting to complete a name change procedure. It's time to make her new surname heard by those around her.
In the Hauts de Mayotte (The Comoro Islands), a secret space, of magic and escape, men and dogs, maintain filial almost intertwined relationships, companion species who share a common land of transformation and autonomy. Smogi has a particular relationship with dogs but also with the power of the elements, nature and the sly spirits that inhabit him (the djinns). “Djo” crosses different belief systems in a wild syncretism where the Muslim call to prayer also marks a moment of reunion with the animist and impure forces of the forest.
In a Reunion Island housing project, as the time of the sacrifice for the Aïd el-Kebir approches, Ibrahim, 12 years old, of Comoran descent, is bullied by Evan, a neighbour of the same age, who accuses him of being an animal killer, When Ibrahim learns that a goat is about to be delivered to his building he decides to save it. But Evan is watching.
On July 25, 2020, the bulk carrier MV Wakashio ran aground on the reef on the east coast of Mauritius. 12 days later, oil began to spill, causing the worst ecological disaster ever to occur in the region.
On the marketplace of a Malian village, a young "Garibou" named Baillo begs every day
on behalf of his caretaker, the Moualim. In the evening, the Moualim imposes terror over
Baillo and the other children of the Koranic school. To escape this tyranny, Baillo takes
refuge in his imagination. But when his barely 6 years old brother Sékou is placed with
the Moualim, nothing can turn him away from the unbearable reality of their condition...
Sidi, a Mauritanian worker, labors in France. Like most immigrant workers, he is assigned the hardest and most dangerous jobs. Sidi and his fellow workers are systematically and continuously exploited—both by their employers and by their own compatriots, who constantly offer forged work permits and slums where immigrants pay exorbitant prices just for the right to sleep. But faced with racism and economic exploitation, immigrant workers come together, organize…
1948. Clément Mathieu, an unemployed music teacher, finds a job as proctor in a correctional boarding school for minors.
Although particularly harsh, the educational policies of the school's director, Rachin, are proving ineffectual.
Clément sets out to change the pupils' lives by acquainting them with the magic and power of music.
