Ivory Coast Movies

Many people died in the village of Ziglo, in western Côte d’Ivoire, during the 2011 civil war. Having waited too long for state justice,...

The Kotedba dance company from the impoverished Treichville section of Abidjan wins an invitation to Paris to perform at the Beaubourg Center in an...

Orphaned by his mother, a teenage young artist wanders the streets of a suburb of Abidjan until the day he finds traces of his father whom he had...

Siaka Diabaté is a musician at Bouaké, the second largest town in the Côte d'Ivoire. Through his mother's family he is Senufo,...

Ono, a villager in search of new hope at the risk of her live after the assassination of her family by the rebels.

Suggested by Mama Watta, a legendary water goddess who seduces men into captivity, the film depicts the symbolic encounter of a man and a woman one...

In the 21st century many ancestral beliefs are struggling to survive in a hostile, fast-changing world. In southeast Ivory Coast, some Akan...

A pastor allows himself to be persuaded by his childhood friend, now a trafficker of smuggled medicines, to recover goods that a spirit has stolen...

An Ivorian father and his daughter set out to continue the book he never finished about a war he experienced as a child. With children in his village...

Confronted with the prospect of an imminent farewell, two friends reunite on the football field they grew up in.

In Boutelfil, on the edge of the Chadian desert, a community gather to discuss the recent drought. For the first time in 30 years, they decide to...

At the beginning of the 20th century in Jacqueville, near Abidjan in the Côte d'Ivoire, traditional music was forbidden by the missionaries....

The scene is set in Southern Burkina Faso, and also in different parts of the Ivory Coast. Five women are shown with their daily burdens and one can...

Among the Senufo people of northern Côte d'Ivoire, the balafon (xylophone with calabash resonators) is an emblematic musical instrument....

Among the Senufo people of northern Côte d'Ivoire, the balafon (xylophone with calabash resonators) is an emblematic musical instrument. The...

Among the Senufo people of northern Côte d'Ivoire, the balafon (xylophone with calabash resonators) is an emblematic musical instrument. This...

Ymako Teatri, a theatre company based in the Ivory Coast, uses street theatre to question some contemporary West African problems. Their originality...

In a region where ocean deities are both revered and feared, Souleymane Sidibé is one of the pioneers of a new era of surfing in Ivory Coast....