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by Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda / Democratic Republic of the Congo / 1996 / 40mins The Draughtermen's Crash tells the story of the president of a fictitious African nation who spends a sleepless night playing checkers with a pot-smoking vagabond who claims to be the all-round champion.
by Mahamat Saleh Haroun / Chad and France / 1994 / 25mins One bleak day, the parents of seventeen-year-old Halimé decide she should be married off to a man in his fifties. Her adamant refusal of this arrangement is ignored and a subsequent duel with her father turns damaging.
by Mahamat Saleh Haroun / Chad / 1995 / 15mins Goi-Goi is a man who loves to drink and play cards. While his attentions are occupied, his wife cheats on him and the entire village knows about it. He catches his wife and her lover in the act. Goi-Goi makes plans to regain his honor, but things don’t go quite as he planned.
by Issa Serge Coelo / Chad / 1994 / 22mins In this wonderful hybrid of fiction and documentary, we become the close companions of Ali Baba Nour, a Chadian cab driver who explains his hopes and dreams, his challenges in a difficult and often violent society.
by Idrissa Ouédraogo / Burkina Faso, France and Zimbabwe / 1997 / 93mins Africa's stunning landscape is married by rivalry, when Kini and Adams are hired by a local quarry, and their dream of moving to the city appears near.
by José "Zeka" Laplaine / Democratic Republic of the Congo / 1996 / 88mins Four friends roam the bars and boxing clubs in an African city while the mother of two of them drinks to the days when she was a prosperous merchant. So the film weaves through lively “scenes from the quarter.”
by Raymond Rajaonarivelo / Madagascar / 1996 / 85mins Destiny is the key to belief systems of the Merina people, but Kapila, the crippled hero, embarks on a journey which ultimately leads him to embrace a future guided by love and imagination.
by Drissa Touré / Burkina Faso and France / 1996 / 90mins Through Fousseini, a Muslim firmly attached to his faith and traditions, and his family, Haramuya draws a picture of Ouagadougou in the traps of modernism and traditionalism.
by Kramo-Lanciné Fadika / Ivory Coast / 1993 / 100mins A traffic cop named Ali very unexpectedly wins the lottery. Only one problem: the winning ticket has disappeared. As Ali looks high and low for help, his quest turns hilariously allegorical, acting as pure satire of the African Dream of socioeconomic success.
