In Burkina Faso, a country confronted with poverty and archaic traditions, ancestral customs are regarded as laws. In the countryside, unexplained deaths are often attributed to ‘soul eaters’, women with occult and malignant powers whom villagers hold responsible for these disappearances.

In this three-part series, Belgian filmmaker Thierry Michel takes an in-depth look at the reign of Mobutu Sese Seko.

Following a violent rupture with Amr, his long-time preferred actor, the director Yehia Eskandarany (alias Youssef Chahine), is obliged to place his entire career under scrutiny. Nothing looks familiar any longer; neither his country, nor cinema he knows.

Kapo, Bana, Kanyankole and Mulokole are youths from four regions of Uganda (Eastern, Central, Western and Northern). They live now in a neighbourhood on the outskirts of the city in the Central Division, specifically Zone B4.

The notion of hybridity is a theme that runs through many of Djibril Diop Mambety films. Like many of his contemporaries, Djibril Diop Mambety used the cinematic medium to comment on political and social conditions in Africa.

Ousmane Sembène was a Senegalese film director, producer and writer.

Author of three novels, he also directed the comedy Le Grand Blanc de Lamberene and received Special Mention at FESPACO in 1991

Born 14 April 1943 in Nkongsamba in Cameroon, Daniel Kamwa attended drama school in Paris. He worked in theatre, film and television before working as a film director. In 1973 he directed a short film "Boubou-cravate", and in 1975 his first feature film "Pousse-Pousse"