Assita Ouedraogo

Les rapports père-fils à travers Igor, quinze ans, apprenti mécanicien et fou de karting, et de Roger, qui trafique dans l'immigration clandestine. Igor, impliqué dans les combines de son père, ne se pose pas trop de questions, jusqu'au jour où, à cause d'une promesse, il va devoir choisir. Mais peut-il dire la vérité sans trahir son père ?

Poverty and misery are rife in Gourga, a village in the Sahel. The inhabitants must choose: stay and await international assistance or leave for more fertile regions in the country.

Eugene, an idealistic young African farmer and musician, decides to leave his village and family momentarily to try out his luck in the city. He makes new friends there, who accompany him on his musical career. He also meets up with Kassi, a childhood friend who has become a prostitute, with whom a new, closer friendship begins. However, when she dies from AIDS, Eugene is confronted by the harsh reality that his spontaneity and innocence blocked out and decides to put his singing talents and fame as a singer to the service of fighting the disease of AIDS. Once back home in his village, the reunion with his wife and children make him realize that life and hope are more powerful than anything else.

Il était une fois, dans la contrée d'Ouahigouya au nord du Burkina Faso, un village peuplé d'adultes et d'enfants, parmi lesquels Nopoko et Bila. Un jour, Bila se lie d'amitié avec Sana, la vieille dame qu'on craint comme une sorcière.

A young biracial woman raised in France travels to Burkina Faso in search of the mother she hasn’t seen in many years. Meanwhile, in Paris, an émigré from Burkina Faso who makes her living as a cleaner teaches the Dioula language to a white middle-class office worker, in this affecting story of global displacement.