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When a woman shelters a group of girls from suffering female genital mutilation, she starts a conflict that tears her village apart.

A young man with magical powers journeys to his uncle to request help in fighting his sorcerer father.

Every year the most beautiful girl will be sacrificed to the Python God. When a girl named Sia is the next to be sacrificed, she hides in the house of the village idiot, a man who goes around shouting hyper-aggressive criticisms against everything. Sia is found by the soldiers but the army commander had for some time prepared a revolt against the emperor and saves Sia on the way. Will Sia reveals the terrible secret she learned about the Python God ?

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 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

"Waati" is the story of Nandi, a black child from South Africa, in the still triumphant days of apartheid.

A mute young woman is raped and becomes pregnant, which brings 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.

Inspired by the book of Genesis, this film tells the power struggle between two families: a clan of herders led by Jacob and another clan of hunters fronted by his brother Esau.

A documentary portrait of the African photographer Malick Sidibe, and a journey through Malian history inspired by his iconic images. Sidibe's snapshots from the late 50s through to the early 70s capture the carefree spirit of a youth asserting their freedom from colonialism in the early days of Malian independence - until a coup ushered in decades of austere military dictatorship. So this is a film not only about art, but also about a culture reflected through a camera lens, in a country that today is one of the poorest in the world.

Two women rebel against the traditions of a village society.

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.

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.

A storyteller named Djeliba comes to the town of a young boy named Mabo with promises that he will reveal the origin of the boy's ancestry.

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?

The life of N'tji, a boy like many others. After leaving the Koranic school without any training, N'tji roams the city and begins to steal. One day he tries to rob a navetane, a seasonal worker, but is caught by the police and spends three years in prison. When he is released, his uncle persuades him to return to the village. The five days correspond to the days that have contributed to N'tji's psychological make-up: the first is the day he started Koranic school; the second is that of the first theft; the third is the day he comes out of prison. The fourth and fifth, which were to be the choice of a profession and the day he reaches a certain economic stability, were never filmed.

Returning from France after her uncle's death, a woman faces family disputes over inheritance in Burkina Faso, exploring the clash between traditional Mandingo Islam and French law.

During a French construction project in the Sudan, a military doctor fights against leprosy and the natives seek protection against witch doctors.

A singer loses her husband on their honeymoon, but is unable to cope with the tragedy and continues to pretend that he is still alive.

A respected governor looks back on his tough childhood as a maltreated orphan, forced to make his own way in the world.

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. Wealth in a modern town and poverty in the suburbs. Fousseini tries to take care of his family according to the old precepts and the code of honor inherited from his ancestors. One of his sons is a cinema projectionist and supports all the family against the will of his wife. The other son idles around all day long in Ouagadougou, looking for a girlfriend.

A village woman leaves her unhappy marriage and flees to the city with her daughter, where she turns to prostitution to survive.

A young brother and sister try to balance school and their menial jobs in order to be able to continue their education and so that their impoverished family can make ends meet.

It's payday and Adama, a factory worker, counts her meager salary trying to reconcile her needs with those of her family back in the village.