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DIASPORIC VIEW
“Diasporic View” brings together films that explore the experiences of the African and Afro-descendant diaspora around the world. This category addresses themes of identity, migration, belonging and resilience, highlighting how diasporic communities navigate and enrich their home and host cultures. It is a tribute to the global interconnectedness and diversity of the African experience abroad.
 Prima Ku LebsiDirector: Welket Bungué Producer: André Lourenço With: Nádia Yracema, Carla Monteiro, Joãozinho da Costa, Bruno Huca Editor: Paula Trojany, Ana Costa, Elisabete Mendes Portugal / 2024 / 25' Prima and Lebsi are dreamy women, living in a suburban hood in Lisbon. An unexpected love affair intertwines them, revealing a lifestyle that involves parallel relationships with people and beliefs, in an atmosphere full of hedonism, desires and contradictions. |  Here ends the world we've knownDirector and writer: Anne-Sophie Nanki With: Lorianne Alamijawari Alamijawari Guadeloupe / 2022 / 24'52 1645. Wars between Amerindians and French rage in Guadeloupe. Ibátali, a young woman indigenous Kalinago, meets Olaudah, a brown fugitive Yoruba. She starts a long way from alienation to colonial society to emancipation. But is it willing to pay the heavy price of the freedom? |  GrâceDirector and writer: Johanna MAKABI Producers: Loubna Traoré, Johanna Makabi With: Alyana Lungu France / 2022 / 14'05 Grace, 8, hates her neighborhood, she hates cheerleading and today she decided to join her father in space. |
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 The olds daysDirector and writer: Guillaume Noura Producer: Aminata Touré France / 2023 / 20' As she bathes in the river. Lise-May, 14, meets a young boy with supernatural abilities who lives underwater. The predators the boy claims to flee from may well be the same who are about to fall upon her. |  The Couple Next DoorDirector and writer: Abbesi Akhamie Producers: Abbesi Akhamie, Nagham Osman With: Baboucarr Camara, Ellie Foumbi United States / 2023 / 11'42 A single woman's feelings of loneliness begin to stir when an eccentric African couple moves in next door to her. |  Sirene - MermaidsDirector and writer: Sarah Malléon Producer: Nicolas Lecx With: Julien Beramis, Patrick Hierso, Jade Cyrille Martinique / 2023 / 16' Daniel is a widowed father who lives in northern Martinique with his 8-year-old daughter, Soraya. Fisherman and restaurateur, he tries to make ends meet in a town hit by a strong economic and social crisis. His daily life is turned upside down the day his daughter decides to summon mermaids using a conch of lambi. |
 AtopiasDirectors: Daniela Yohannes, Julien Beramis Writers: Daniela Yohannes, Julien Beramis Producers: Guadeloupe / 2023 / 27' In 'Atopias: The Homeless Wanderer,' a Black woman embarks on a meditative journey through the wild Caribbean landscapes, confronting dreamlike memories and traumatic experiences. This exploration of migration, generational memory, and trauma reshapes her voyage, taking her deep into her subconscious, where she encounters her inner child and ventures into ancestral realms. |  NyangaDirector and writer: Medhin Tewolde Serrano Producers: Daniela Contreras, Nicolas Défossé With: Álvaro Nel Hernández Almario Productions: Terra Nostra Films Mexico / 2023 / 20' During the colonial era, Nyanga was kidnapped off the coast of Africa, brought to Mexico and enslaved. Though forced to work on the master's plantation, he never stopped dreaming of freedom. Based on historical facts, and using shadow theater and handmade cinema, ‘Nyanga’ is an homage to resistance against colonial... |  Disco AfricaDirector: Razanajaona Luck Writer: Jonathan Rubin Producer: With: Parista Sambo France / 2024 / 81' Madagascar, nowadays. Twenty-year-old Kwame, who struggles to make a living in the clandestine sapphire mines, is taken back to his hometown by an unexpected turn of events. As he reunites with his mother and old friends, he finds himself confronted with the rampant corruption plaguing his country. Now, he will have to choose between easy money and loyalty; between individualism and political |
 SkettelDirector and writer: Moon Lee Ferguson Producers: Kiara Diana, Shania Banton Executive Producers: Moon Lee Ferguso, Lucien Christian Adderley With: Alicia Pilgrim Director of photography: Kennard Medina Editor: Moon Lee Ferguson United States / 2024 / 13'05 A young mother struggles to keep her head above water as she navigates motherhood, her neurodivergent toddler, and the gritty Atlanta nightclub where she works. All on a quarter tank of gas. |  BeentoDirector: Nancy Mac Granaky-Quay Writers: Florian Wimmer, Nancy Mac Granaky-Quay Producer: Florian Müßene With: Annette Strasser, Oliver Akwe, Hendrik Arnst, Stefanie Mühle Germany / 2007 / 24' This story is based on true events. Beento is a West-African term used to describe a person who has “Been to” a foreign country, returning as a successful man. East Germany 1963. Sammy is a guest student from West-Africa. Katharina is a local girl, and they are in love. This is neither the right place... |  La paixDirector and writer: Jean Gaspa Producer: Neticia Alberto With: Gradi Kumbi, Josette Guervil, Hyggins Sansa, Myah Cognet, Joy Uwa, Jean Fritz, Johanne Ernest, Natacha Pierre, Sandy Stessie Sinvilus, Rodrigue Pouvin France / 2024 / 14'54 Evens, a young man as imperfect as he is endearing, accompanies his mother to the Haitian consulate in Paris. Feeling uneasy, he tries as best he can to shorten their visit while his mother works behind his back. |
 Chocolate with SprinklesDirector and writer: Huriyyah Muhammad Producers: Okema T. Moore, Cole Sanchez, Yha Mourhia Wright With: Reno Wilson, Keisha Thompson, Camron Jones, Lillian Gilbert, Nate Allen Smith United States / 2024 / 19'05 On their 25th wedding anniversary, a bickering couple is given one day to do something they haven't done in 25 years - work on their marriage. |  ScapegoatDirector and writer: Nicolas Séry Producer: Anne Berjon With: Kéran Saïd Nourry, Camélia Grairi, Klara Payet Réunion / 2023 / 20' In a Reunion Island housing project, as the time of the sacrifice for the Aïd el-Kebir approaches, 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. |  KipkemboiDirector: Charles Uwagbai Writer: Joel Richardson Producers: Jennifer Jonas, Leonard Farlinger With: Thamela Mpumlwana Canada / 2023 / 85' The story of a teenaged African math genius who brings the world financial markets to its knees. |
 Coronas NegrasDirector and writer: André Lô Sánchez Producers: Elena Guerra-Cuéllar, IMCINE Mexican Film Institute With: Georgina Diédhiou Bello, Seynabou Diédhiou Bello, Jamir Gueye Sandova, Richard Lô Sánchez Mexico / 2023 / 15' The hairstyles of four Afro-descendant people from Mexican - Senegalese families represent the starting point to reflect, through memories that emerge from their past and present, what it is like to live in México wearing a Black Crown and the consequences that it implies. |  MosiahDirector: Jirard Writers: Samuel Lee Fudge, Jirard Producer: Alima Albari, Danielle ''Pockett'' Brown With: Samuel Lee Fudge, Brit Scales United States / 2023 / 40' Marcus Mosiah Garvey, a Jamaican-born political activist and founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), is on trial in New York in 1923. Following the leadership of J. Edger Hoover & the BOI (later, the FBI), the government has charged Garvey with mail fraud in connection with selling stocks for the Black Star Li |  YuriDirector: Baky DIA Writers: Rahul Bhalla, Baky Dia Producer: Baky Dia With: Jonas Dinal, Demba Diaw, Adeline Lo Piccolo, France / 2022 / 12'07 Chris Dolo is a technical engineer for Aqua-Space, a company involved in several polemics about the privatization of drinking water and the lack of it everywhere. He is also the father of Yuri Dolo, an 11-year-old genius with a passion for astrophysics who dreams of another life in the stars. As we follow our two characters in their daily lives... |
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