Benin Movies

Feature film that played at FESPACO in 2007.

lsény Camara is physically handicapped and needs to beg for money in order to provide for his family. This changes when he takes part in the...

Josette, 75, struggling with her loneliness, meets Sarah, a young woman from her neighborhood. The two women, of diametrically opposed personalities,...

This is a tragic story of Freedom, Despair, and then Revelation And you'll see it through the EYES of an Attacker or a Victim and then, you'll decide...

Honoré and Grégoire prepare their mother’s funeral. They are faced with the common and individual expenses inherent to funerals...

Documentary dedicated to Patrice Lumumba. FESPACO 1985: Prize of the city of Ouagadougou and special mention of the Organization of African Unity...

This film follows Maria Esther, Jose Agrippino's partner, as she falls into a trance; the film takes place in the day-to-day setting of a room...

Spreading across the beach and streets of Benin. A moving letter from a mother to her future daughter expresses the challenges and joys of growing up...

Oseye, a young American-Beninese girl, moves back to Benin with her mother and discovers her new surroundings.

Every people, every human being, has a need to assert themselves. However, one can only assert oneself through one’s culture. My Father is Goun...

Director Hawa Aliou N'Diaye explores Malian tradition, myth, and the ethereal through interviews with women who-like her-claim to be possessed by...

A sacrifice ritual in Dahomey [Benin].

Two men meet on a casting bench installed on the shore of a beach. Suddenly, a love story is born.

In the deserts of Benin, shepherds struggle with droughts and a changing environment as they herd animals through ancestral lands.

When Yacumba the Queen of Circles is attacked by the Man in Red, her Power Heart is Gone, she and her Royal subject Vangirai would travel through...

A group of young students visits a remote village in Bénin, but when the village monarch chooses one of them to be his new wife, trouble...