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by Kamal El-Mahouti / France and Morocco / 2001 / 19mins The filmmaker recounts his childhood memories in the wake of the destruction of the housing project in which he grew up. El-Mahouti explores the complexly intertwined in the histories of France and Morocco through the eyes of Moroccan immigrants living in France.
by Dyana Gaye / Senegal and France / 2006 / 15mins Ousmane, a 7-year-old child who begs in the streets, decides to write a letter to Santa Claus.
by Namir Abdel Messeeh / Egypt and France / 2005 / 28mins In 1959 in Egypt, several thousand Communists were arrested and sent to prison camps. Amongst these prisoners was Waguih, director Namir Abdel Messeeh's father. Waguih was arrested in 1964. He was 29.
by Shelley Barry / South Africa / 2004 / 15mins Three experimental shorts which deal with sexuality, visibility, and voice from the perspective of a wheelchair user who turns the camera on herself to celebrate love and survival.
by Ben Diogaye Bèye / Senegal / 2004 / 96mins A touching investigation of innocent love between children in Senegal set against the background of a traditional class system.
by Mehdi Charef / Algeria / 2001 / 106mins Rallia, a young woman raised in Switzerland, travels to an isolated Berber settlement located in the rocky Atlas Mountains of Algeria to discover her relationship to her extended family and her traditional Berber culture.
by Dumisani Phakathi / South Africa / 2004 / 86mins Follow Dumisani's epic journey to find his 51 siblings and come to terms with the loss of his father as a child.
by Fanta Régina Nacro / Burkina Faso and France / 2004 / 100mins Mirroring the political strife and genocide in contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa, this film opens as preparations are being made to end a decade of civil war in a fictitious country.
