Benin Movies

Recording a 24-hour period throughout every country in the world, we explore a greater diversity of perspectives than ever seen before on screen. We...

France, 2033. Olivier, an engineer, and Pauline, a teacher, decide to emigrate to the United States of Africa because they can no longer live in...

The president of an African country, suffering from seeing its rich natural resources exploited only by western corporations, decides to nationalize...

In Ouidah, Benin, the district "The Pantheon of Joy". At 12 years old, fatherless, one's eyes widen before the villa of a Big Brother who seems to...

In Burkina Faso, young men look under the earth for gold – and a better future. As a result, 16-year-old Rasmané barely seems like a...

Djibril, nicknamed Djib, is a 13 year old black teenager, a rebel of the 90s, who lives with his grandmother in Asnières. He has a strange...

Vodoun Gods On The Slave Coast explores the ceremonial splendor of sacred dance and ritual in Benin, the birthplace and cradle of Vodoun. Formerly...

lsény Camara is physically handicapped and needs to beg for money in order to provide for his family. This changes when he takes part in the...

Abeni is in love with Akanni, the son of Chief Bello's former gateman. But Chief Bello is not in support of his daughter's intention to marry a...

A young peasant, Boubacar, owner of a corn field, wants to break free of his wretched existence and has an idea for a new job. He sells his field and...

Documentary about an Ivorian emigration agency.

Agouénou, a newcomer to a government agency, takes on the entrenched corruption and butts heads with the leader of the old-guard,...

Oseye, a young American-Beninese girl, moves back to Benin with her mother and discovers her new surroundings.

Sètchémè (20 years old) is a young albino girl. She is different from her parents and her sisters, who, on the other hand, are...

In the deserts of Benin, shepherds struggle with droughts and a changing environment as they herd animals through ancestral lands.

Director Hawa Aliou N'Diaye explores Malian tradition, myth, and the ethereal through interviews with women who-like her-claim to be possessed by...

Two men meet on a casting bench installed on the shore of a beach. Suddenly, a love story is born.