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- A historical epic inspired by true events that took place in The Kingdom of Dahomey, one of the most powerful states of Africa in the 18th and 19th centuries.
- During the 1800s, paroled Brazilian bandit Cobra Verde is sent to West Africa with a few troops to man an old Portuguese fort and to convince the local African ruler to resume the slave trade with Brazil.
- When the harmony in a village is threatened by outside elements, two sisters must fight to save their people and restore the glory of a mermaid goddess to the land.
- Alice and Louis are estranged siblings who have been avoiding each other for over twenty years and are forced to reunite after a tragedy.
- Three people, three stories, one thing in common: Africa.
- A cynical Welsh hotel owner secretly romances a diplomat's wife in Haiti, under the violent reign of the despot "Papa Doc" Duvalier.
- In the streets of Paris, Juste collects the last memory of people only he can see, before helping them into the afterlife. Juste is a ghost. But one day Agathe recognizes him. She knew him when he was alive.
- A very interesting documentary since many people have no idea of the meaning of voodoo since it has a bad concept of pornography and really does not know the depth of each religious or believer.
- The drama led documentary series presents history's most iconic female fighters. Each extraordinary tale of blood, sacrifice and endurance centres on the life of one young woman warrior caught up in the bloody struggles of her time.
- When the slave boats docked in the Americas, Cuba and the Caribbean, hundreds of cultures and religions came with the Africans but only one survived the plantations. To date, the most pronounced African Culture of the Diasporas remains the culture of the Yoruba. From Brazil to Trinidad, the United States to Cuba, Haiti and the entire Caribbean, this West African culture dominates all other Cultures of Africa and could be said to have survived the plantations for hundreds of years. Bigger Than Africa follows the trans-Atlantic slave trade route from West Africa to six different countries-- USA, Nigeria, Brazil, Republic of Benin, Trinidad and Tobago and Cuba-- to explore and find reasons for the survival of this particular West African Culture.
- When Lena and Ulli start the engine of their old Land Rover, Lady Terés, they have a plan: to drive from Hamburg to South Africa in six months. What they don't know yet is that they won't ever get there. Two totally different characters, jammed together in two square meters of space for almost two years, they experience what it really means to travel: leaving your comfort zone for good. Starting in Morocco, they quickly dive into the life of locals they meet on the road: Jamal, a Moroccan Berber who lives with his dromedaries in the Sahara, Ziza, a Mauritanian musician who fights against suppression from the government, Mame Sy, a mother who set up a private school for the poorest of the poor in Mauritania - and many more. Their journey leads them through the vibrant green canyons of Guinea, the scorching heat of Mali, and the amazing surf of Sierra Leone and Liberia. Everywhere they are, the two Germans make contact with the locals and demonstrate that real travelling is about more than plain sightseeing. But their long journey doesn't spare them the dark side of travelling: they are also confronted by corruption, sickness and even death. Setting out to discover a continent, their trip leads them down a very different road. One they did not expect: the journey to their true inner selves.
- Four women from different regions develop friendships during a bus journey across West Africa, as they accomplish an everyday journey while facing the universal challenge of being independent women.
- When fate smites two bosom friends, will this bond have its way? Eki and Itohan are two friends who stick closer than sisters but an ancestral transgression comes to set them apart and thrusts them in two different worlds. Eki walks through fire to save her life, and Itohan walks on coal to find love.
- Documentary about French-born Pierre Verger, who lived between Bahia (Brazil) and Africa from 1946 until his death in 1996, and dedicated himself to photograph and research the Candomblé rites, becoming himself deeply involved with the religious communities. This film includes his very last interview to Brazilian composer Gilberto Gil, one day before Verger's death at 93.
- Enakhe is unfit for a life of crime but in spite of this, she is destined to rule after Epa who is unexpectedly killed.
- What do the Shroud of Turin, Elvis's Graceland, and a flag flown barely a moment over the U.S. Capitol have in common. Mana - that sacred, spiritual power thought to reside in a person, place or thing. Belief is not just religion, say filmmakers Friedman and Manley. It drives the stock market; it determines how we encapsulate history and our personal memories. It underlies racism and war... A trip around the amazing world of power objects, from the sacred to the absurd.
- The adventures of three young men who leave their homeland Savannah, Niger, and go looking for fortune in Ghana.
- Gary Barbar, Marine Transportation Management teacher is a troubled man. His entire life and aspirations hinge on finding the truth and meaning behind the nightmares, violent flashes of visions of a past that knows nothing about. He expects to find answers as he journeys to his fatherland but he is totally unprepared for the complications awaiting him in Benin as the reincarnation of Ifagbai, the rejected son of Akukuo Eghosa, the great warrior, who must be reunited with his love from time past, Esohe. As in the days of Ifagbai and his love Esohe, the same forces have also reincarnated, this time, to frustrate their love a second and final time - A story of undying love, unflinching loyalty, deviously woven intrigues and traditions.
- A unique hospital ship offering life saving surgery sets sail along the coast of West Africa Africa. They have just one year to do the impossible - to provide the care these people cannot get any other way. On board are volunteer doctors and nurses - now headed straight for the biggest medical and ethical challenges of their lives. Ahead lies illnesses, many they have never seen outside of textbooks. A dramatic journey is underway as they deal with life and death cases and join with patients to transform lives.
- A Nigerian born American girl returns to the motherland to familiarise herself with her roots in the Benin kingdom and gets caught up in the battle between identical twin princes fighting for the throne of their late father.
- Murphy's law states that "anything that can go wrong will go wrong" but for the Idemudias everything goes wrong because of something done so long ago that no one knows what it was - and the past has to be corrected.
- Explores the rhythm and ritual life in the rural environment of six West African countries: Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Togo, Benin, and Senegal.
- Onuora Abuah travels to his boyhood homes of the Republic of Benin and Togo, to learn more about powerful pre-colonial kingdom of Danhomé (Dahomey) and the Vodun spiritual system which was practiced by the region's people.
- It was from Dahomey (now Benin, Africa) that the cult of the deads was exported - through the slave trade - to Brazil, and Haiti. The film narrates the modern story of this ethnographical, religious culture. A team of initiates could film troubling images documenting initiation ceremonies and the sacred lethargy that can take as much as seven, or even eleven days, and in which the body started decomposing itself. Then, the resuscitation happens...
- A documentary film that will take viewers to Ouidah, Benin, the geographic heart of the Vodoun religion, where friends and collaborators, director Hazel Hill McCarthy, III and cultural engineer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, explore the relationship between Vodoun and Western secular art and performance by trying to answer the question of what embodiment is.
- Talking Money is an observational documentary shot at bank consultation tables all over the world. From Bolivia to Pakistan, Benin to Switzerland, men and women sit down across from their neighborhood bankers to discuss the intimacies of their financial lives. Far from the glamour of distant Wall Street, this is the reality of personal banking, where one's life problems are a matter of business. In 15 spontaneously recorded encounters, the bank table turns into a stage for confessions and masquerades, where consultants and clients try their best to look solid and trustworthy. Filming entirely from the bank's side of the table, Sebastian Winkels offers the audience a place in a bizarre power play, exploring a complicated inter-relationship called 'money'. A multi-voiced commentary on capitalism that reveals how the invisible power of money works on all of us, no matter who and where we are.
- In Ouidah, Benin, the district "The Pantheon of Joy". At 12 years old, fatherless, one's eyes widen before the villa of a Big Brother who seems to have conquered Europe. To quench one's hunger, to sing, to ask for alms. And dreaming...
- In Johannesburg, a heated discourse on the concept of God in Professor Roy's lecture causes him to visit a town in the interiors of Nigeria where he encounters an incredible discovery.
- An insight into the life and times of Calypso Rose, the musician from Trinidad & Tobago.
- Portraits of contemporary African women from four West African nations: Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal and Benin.
- The documentary follows legendary photographer Albert Watson on his most recent photo project to Benin, West Africa.
- An investigation into the kidnapping of Olaudah Equiano and the British slave trade.
- A family in West Africa tells the story of how an ancestor discovered European explorers in 1548 - to a European film crew. But do all the claims about the historic event bear a closer look? And is the filmmaker's white gaze to be trusted.
- The adventures of Frank Gossner, a DJ from Berlin turned 'Indiana Jones' of record digging, as he journeys throughout West Africa to dig for rare, vinyl recordings of African funk and soul music from the 1970s. Frank's mission is to salvage these recordings before they are burned or lost forever and bring them to new audiences in New York City and Europe.
- Autrement (In another way) is a documentary that explores the region known as the "least developed" the world: West Africa. There is something extraordinary happening here: social groups and individuals who imagine other ways of thinking and acting. Is there an option to the dominant global model of development? Is it possible to do science differently? Can we create and innovate in places with limited financial and material resources? Scientists, farmers, teachers and students, sociologists, engineers, doctors, traditional and contemporary dancers raise their voice: We can do it in another way! Africa is alive, dancing at their own pace, and offers hope to other societies willing to wake up. Autrement is a "face to face" with Africa through inspiring projects: from workshops of DNA with kitchen products to acclaimed contemporary video-dance , coming through the sacred groves and other local initiatives that show, this co-production in Mexico, Benin, Malaysia, a reality of diversity, colonization, resistance and creation.
- Vudú is a feature documentary that tells the story of a group of young African artists whose lives are marked by magic and animistic religion. Their dream is to be able to act one day outside their country, Benin, and show in distant peoples their dances and interpretations. Between dreams and realities they will travel to Spain motivated by the faith in their religion, and helped by voodoo magic rites they will try Fulfill their wish.
- God, Ghosts and Dead people
- Documentary about the production behind The Comedians (1967), which was filmed in Benin (what was then called Dahomey).
- In the search of African folktales to turn into screenplays, Sèdo Tossou decided to go on a cultural discovery trip to a small village in Benin called "Gogotinkpon". With the help of his wife, cousin and friends he ended up finding more than what he was originally looking for in this beautiful adventure.