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- A young man with magical powers journeys to his uncle to request help in fighting his sorcerer father.
- A free-spirited, materialistic young woman tries to resist family pressure to find a husband.
- In the last days of 1999, after a few shots of a French supermarket, abundant in food and color, we hear Dramane compose a letter home to his father in Mali whom he then visits in the village of Sokolo. He meets the lovely Nana, and there are possibilities. People place long-distance calls from the post office. "Reaching people," says the postmaster, "is a matter of luck." Contrasts between Paris and Sokolo - between Mali and France and between Africa and Europe - are underscored by voice-over poems and comments by Aimé Césaire. A man dictates a letter to a brother in France: what is the nature of their hardships? People look for their place on this earth.
- A young manager of a factory encounters a man walking along a road who says his family traditionally are servants to the manager's family. The manager offers him a job, and as he watches out for the other man's welfare, begins to see how the company mistreats its workers. The manager is challenged between his ethics and the pressure from others to protect his own interests as dire problems surface at the factory
- The story of Zamiatou, a Songhaï woman, in North Eastern Mali. With two young sons, a pretty daughter and a handicapped husband, Zamiatou struggles to survive in a remote and barren area. She doesn't want her daughter to "work" for white people, but her determination will take her far from her family
- A young mute woman is raped and becomes pregnant, with disastrous consequences within her family. The film also sketches the social/economic situation in urban Mali in the 1970s, particularly in relation to the treatment of women.
- It's the holiday period of the Summer of 79, by the ocean. 10-year-old Jean realizes that his mother and father don't love each other anymore. Suddenly, the family is confronted with death.
- Finye tackles the generation gap in post-colonial West Africa. Its heroine is the pot smoking daughter of a provincial military governor who falls in love with a fellow university student, the descendent of one of Mali's chiefs.
- A young forest ranger who sees that his work holds the key to the future of his country is disgusted at the short-sighted, money-grubbing ways of his superiors.
- Two women rebel against the traditions of a village society.
- Documents the rise and fall of a cruel and despotic village chief Guimba, and his son Jangine in a fictional village in the Sahel of Mali.
- Hamalla is banished from his village in Mali, due to ancient prejudices. He returns four years later versed in modern technology at a time in which the village's future hangs on the brink as the holy well of the ancestors, symbol of the spirituality of the entire community, is contaminated. In the face of epidemic, Hamalla's must convince the villagers of the need to purify the water.
- An adultery drama set in a bourgeois family in Bamako, Mali, where tensions are rife within the household: Mimi, bored with the polygamy and routine of marriage, wants to leave Issa. She has a lover, Aba. How will all three cope with this?
- Zanga is driven out of his village. After many years, he returns to find out who is father is. At the moment of his arrival, something happens that the villagers interpret as the river spirit Faro's angry reaction to the bastard's coming.
- Safi, a young girl who took over from her father at the head of the family business, directs her activities towards long-term investment. But her project is compromised because of the allocation of developed areas.
- A man and an African mask both return to their native Mali, where they embark on an ethnological road trip, which transforms with every step deeper into the African bush, eventually reaching a zone where magic and reality take turns providing the answers.
- Mariama, a 17 year old, denies the husband that her father obliged her to marry. Yoro, an idealistic politician opposes the current military power. Both will end up in prison and try by all means to find a thin ray of hope.
- A respected governor looks back on his tough childhood as a maltreated orphan, forced to make his own way in the world.
- Black African students go to study in Quebec but find it hard to fit in.
- Ada goes swimming in the Icelandic sea and reflects on raising a child in a country that feels nothing like home. As she enters the freezing water, she relives her traumatic pregnancy. Soon her swimming eases. Facing her fears is helping her heal.
- How the biological aspect of albinism affects not only pigmentation, but also physical and mental health as people are victims of discrimination, mutilation, and ritual crimes in Africa.
- "Sand fishing" within the river Niger: the lack of water and fish forces Mali's inhabitants to create a new livelihood. Young men take sand from the riverbed and sell it to the flourishing construction industry. A Sisyphus story which offers a true insight into the protagonists' situation
- This is about a house in Bamako , an artist's house. This house is a link to his parents, to his history, to his memories. One day in 2008, his sisters are unlawfully evicted from it. This is also about Mali. A country he has witnessed falling into war, regardless of the tolerance that has been its tradition ever since it gained independence.
- A look into Malian traditions and myths, including women who believe they are possessed by a jinn.
- A farmer in rural Mali is using a groundbreaking alternative plant-breeding model to save his village from hunger and the scourge of climate change. What if this model can also help avoid a worldwide food crisis?
- Diatiguiya is a word for a peculiar tradition which today in Mali rhymes with the 2002 Soccer Africa Cup of Nations (CAN), and means Malian hospitality. The film covers how Malians welcome all the CAN participating teams and visitors.
- A young Malian boy, Aba Diko, sells chickens to help support his family.
- We are following some key personalities from the Malian cultural scene, which are showing through their activities, the Importance of Culture/Music/Art in the Malian society. The film tries also to show the effects and Problems, caused by the Invasion and occupation of the North of Mali in 2012 by Tuareg rebels and Terrorists, on the local economy, tourism and performing artists!! Style of documentary: -Music Documentary
- The "Wise Ones" have told the King of Ségou that a baby boy will be born during the rainy season, who will be a threat to his power.
- Director Hawa Aliou N'Diaye explores Malian tradition, myth, and the ethereal through interviews with women who-like her-claim to be possessed by enigmatic spirits known as jinn.