Issaka Sawadogo Movies

On the one hand, there’s the desert eating away at the land. The endless dry season, the lack of water. On the other there’s the threat...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Issaka Sawadogo

After the death of their father, two half-brothers find themselves on opposite sides of an escalating conflict with tragic consequences.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kaaris

Mali, 1960. The youth of Bamako dance the twist to rock and roll music newly imported from the West and dream of political renewal. Samba, a young...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Stéphane Bak

Ali is a 14-year-old teenager on the loose. To give him a proper education, his single mother sends him to a madrassa in Mali. When Ali comes back...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sami Slimane

While near sighted Denise plays football, she accidently gets a ball in her face, and her glasses break. When she wakes up in the hospital she's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Laila Goody

Adapted from a series of short stories by Norwegian author Levi Henriksen, Bent Hamers Home for Christmas weaves together the lives of people...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nina Andresen Borud

On their ladyfriends' insistence, their "Tchiza", three friends go on an extramarital trip out of Ouagadougou, a fake mission to Abidjian being the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Issaka Sawadogo

An African immigrant living illegally in Belgium is desperate to find his own sense of belonging.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Issaka Sawadogo

After three elderly men are bitten by spiders, everyone assumes that their deaths are tragic accidents. But at police headquarters in Paris,...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Jean-Hugues Anglade

A cargo ship is stuck on the Canadian Saint Lawrence River for repairs. Traoré, an Ivory Coast mechanic is unjustly accused of causing the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Issaka Sawadogo

After years spent in Paris, Clotaire Sangala returns to his native country, Africa. Raised by a Chinese martial arts grandfather, convinced to have...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Thomas Ngijol

Longing for a brighter future, two Senegalese teenagers embark on a journey from West Africa to Italy. However, between their dreams and reality lies...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Seydou Sarr

Tara is denied electricity bill support by Social Services, who tells her to simply get a free grill instead - a task that leads Tara into...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Birgitte Larsen

Ambitious Cape Verdean medical student Artur struggles with his responsibilities.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tarikh Janssen

The refugee Matthew wait in the outfit centre schiphol East for its flight to Sudan. If that of but, Arash, a despair action commits, Matthew get...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Doa Pozam

Three prisoners are on a leave for a week end. 48 hours to come back down to earth. 48 hours to reconnect with their close friends. 48 hours trying...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Karim Leklou

Twelve-year-old Simon has lost everything to the civil war that has devastated his country. "Black Lion," the ruthless rebel leader of the People's...

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Cast: Sanou Titiama

Mirte is a cleaner in the reception centre for asylum seekers at the airport. She tries to forget her past through routine. When the charismatic West...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bianca Krijgsman

Young actor Amir yearns for success, yet his impatience steers him into a nightmare.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ahmed Bouyaghroumni

A story about an immigrant from Burkina Faso and his attempts to integrate in Norwegian society. Exoticore is a touching tale about modern-day people...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Issaka Sawadogo

1992: The undocumented Ghanaian Agymah (50) lives a secluded life as a cook in the outskirts of Amsterdam. When the ambitious dreamer Nina (12)...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Issaka Sawadogo

The story follows a group of people who are kidnapped from the street and held hostage in an underground prison to await deportation. Will they...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Pernilla August

Nour makes a living from smuggling exotic animals and illicit products (birds of prey, venom, rare roots, etc.). Wishing to get her son out of the...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Golshifteh Farahani

Vincent, in his thirties, works on a night shift on the gigantic Grand Ciel construction site, a futuristic district. When a worker disappears,...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Damien Bonnard

The lives of six people, who seem to have nothing more in common than their faraway homelands, become inextricably linked in Amsterdam, the city they...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anjela Nedyalkova

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Adrienne Koutouan

1759, Mauritius Island, Indian Ocean. The island is controlled by French settlers and the deported slave population live in fear while toiling in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ibrahima Mbaye

50-year-old Victor Ganz owns a thriving civil engineering company that operates worldwide. But when some very costly problems on a site force him to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vlad Ivanov

Samba migrated to France 10 years ago from Senegal, and has since been plugging away at various lowly jobs. Alice is a senior executive who has...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Omar Sy

Anna lives with her father Karl someplace in the outskirts of northern Norway. Karl killed his ex-wife and threw her newborn coloured child into the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kingsford Siayor

Monsters fight with each other in a dystopian world, playing out the revenge of their human breeders.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Issaka Sawadogo

For Goran and his team of amateur shooters, the plan was almost perfect: to enter a hypermarket at night to rob a jeweler. But these "broken arms"...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alban Ivanov

Three kids spend the summer days the usual way: hanging out, snapchatting... and playing with their newly discovered pet.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Margarita Belan

'What happened? Where am I?' The man who wakes up alone in the woods has many questions. Is he dead and in the hereafter? The voice of God soberly...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Issaka Sawadogo

On the basis of conversations with Hänsel and some of her permanent crew members, a remarkable portrait is created of a filmmaker who is also...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Marion Hänsel

When a childhood friend from Miami gets killed after he comes to warn of encroaching drug gangs, Baaba moves to Miami and teams up with a local...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Omar Sy

A young man is sent to "La Maca," a prison in the middle of the Ivorian forest ruled by its inmates. As tradition goes with the rising of the red...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koné Bakary

In a luxurious hotel, the lives of 6 people cross. A story about love, life and the search for happiness.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Natali Broods

The story of Ismail Abdoul, a promising young boxer getting caught between his sporting carreer and his rising fame in the criminal underworld.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Nabil Mallat

The story of a Burkinabé immigrant who is reluctantly drawn into a neighbour’s troubles in his Montreal apartment building.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Issaka Sawadogo