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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • La nuit des rois

    The power of storytelling underpins this stifling, inventive film from Côte d’Ivoire about life inside a gigantic prison.
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  • Adanggaman

    In 17th-century West Africa, a village on the Slave Coast is attacked and plundered. Ossei goes looking for his imprisoned villagers. Confrontational
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  • To Repel Ghosts

    Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat is shown around by an Ivorian painter. Exhausted by depression Basquiat seeks salvation in local rituals.
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  • Abusuam

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  • Sur la dune de la solitude

    Inspired by Mama Watta, a legendary water goddess who seduces men into captivity: the symbolic encounter of a man and a woman one night on…
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  • La femme au couteau

    African traditions are called into question through the difficulties of a young intellectual traumatised by too strict an upbringing in Africa.
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