Generation Africa

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Boubé of the Fulani

27 min |

Boubé and his Fulani tribe prepare for the seasonal migration with his tribe, an adventure that has sparked conflict over the recent years as water and grazing shrinks due to climate change. He has a plan to approach the tensions differently this time, in the hopes of finding a new way to co-exist.

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New Boats

49 min |

Tombo village has relied on fishing for centuries but now their livelihood is threatened by the arrival of Asian trawlers who over-fish on their shores. Sullay, the son of a master fisherman tries to carry the family tradition and resist the pull to leave the village and look for work as fish decline. Community organiser, Woodie, reunites wives with their husbands who have left.

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Sisterhood

72 |

Twin sisters Husinatu and Hassanatu decide to escape the bad economic prospects by emigrating to the middle East to become domestic workers. Despite the negative experiences Husinatu had previously in the same adventure, they are adamant that this is the only way out of the expectations of their conservative Muslim family.

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Footsteps of a Migrant

72 |

Twin sisters Adama and Awa fulfil a lifelong dream to learn what happened to their migrant father who left them when they were young. They travel from Senegal to Guinea-Bissau and Burkina Faso to connect with their father’s other families and through the journey, find their own identity.

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Stay Up

35 min |

Mariam, a survivor of childhood sexual abuse in Mali, escapes to Burkina Faso. Using dance and choreography, she sets out on a path of healing by confronting her demons and finds resilience to build a new life.
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African Moot

85 min |

An annual mock trial contest hosts human rights law students drawn from top universities across Africa. This year,as they argue in cases regarding refugee law, these bright young students offer us a glimpse into the frustration and optimism of each of them determined to win. The cases show the potential of Africa’s future legal thought leaders.

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Fati’s Choice

42 min |

Fati, unhappy with her prospects as an irregular migrant, returned from Italy to take care of her five children. She faces stigma with gossiping neighbours and friends, who paint her as a failure. She forges ahead but can she cope amid a failed marriage, her children being taken away, and dire financial constraints? Alone and rejected, will she regret coming back home or succeed in her primary aim of getting the children back?

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Home Again

36 min |

Paabi is deported from Libya on his second attempt to get to Europe. Determined to use the €1000 reintegration grant to build a life in the Gambia and not need to try and migrate again, he is faced with obstacles. Will he succeed or give up like many youth who are eventually forced to leave?

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Mary Monday

14 min |

Mary Monday works as a journalist for a Ugandan news station, researching, recording and editing stories about the lives of refugees in Uganda using only her mobile phone powered with a small solar panel. A refugee herself, Mary’s work ensures that refugees and displaced people are able to remain connected through mass media.

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Katanga Nation

26 min |

Enkehone, naive but ambitious and from rural Ethiopia, lives in a hostel in the bustling neighbourhood of Katanga. His host, Amele, lives in the back room of the dorms she rents out. As the path to his dreams unfold in uncertainty, Enkehone witnesses the raw, chaotic, and captivating life of his host family and their community in the last days of Katanga before it is engulfed by the monstrous construction of Addis Ababa.

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Almost Somali

33 min |

Set in Nairobi’s Little Mogadishu, a popular YouTube content creator considers what it means to be Somalian. His Somali peers are either born in Somalia, in Kenya or in the diaspora in the West – all of which have an impact on how each of them understands or claims their belonging and Somali identity.

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Clando

24 min |

On board the Clando bus, a clandestine means of travel for the English-speaking minority that travels to the French-speaking cities of Cameroon for economic opportunities we meet different characters whose stories help us to understand the tensions in a nation divided.

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Njel, the Separation

22 min |

Manuela, intelligent and enthusiastic at school, yet sad at home, is eleven years old and preparing for her first certificate. She lives in Edéa, Cameroon, with her grandparents who do not understand why their granddaughter is dissatisfied as she a does not want for anything. Manuela’s parents abandoned her to work abroad for their daughter’s better future, but Manuela could not understand or accept this situation when she was four years old. Today, she shows us how to live with the absence, to question her parents, and maintain remote contact.

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Taamaden, the Walking Child

87 min |

West African migrants in Valencia, Ouloulou, Baldé and Doucouré, talk daily with their marabout back home who recommends rituals for their papers in Europe. Meanwhile, in  Mali, Bakary prepares for his second attempt at  crossing the Mediterranean, this time by following rituals prescribed by his marabout.

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Zinder

82 min |

Zinder, in Niger, is a city of passage in the heart of the Sahel. Kara-Kara is one of its marginalized neighbourhoods, historically home to lepers and outcasts. Young people there have formed gangs feared by the population, the “Palaces”, some of whose members cross the threshold of criminality, with the prospect of prison or death, while others are working to get out of the rut. This is the case of Siniya, Bawo and Ramsess, whose survival strategy the director, herself a daughter of Zinder, has chosen to film. They open their world and tell her their story, that of idle youth in search of dignity.

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Lend Me Your Voice

20 min |

Akili, a Congolese woman, lived as a refugee in Burundi before coming to Rwanda. Her journey has seen her family displaced and separated and she herself has been held and tortured in prison at risk of death. Through her resilience and the fighting spirit she found herself a place in the world through boxing until misogyny took that away from her also. By telling her story, she tries to deal with all the loss she’s experienced.

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Transactions

52 min |

Zimbabwe’s economy has collapsed with hyperinflation forcing many to depend on remittances from family members abroad. MaMlilo’s children Frank, Miles and Portia are obliged to send remittances home while her last daughter remaining seeks a chance to also migrate – all this has an impact on the family dynamic as they work to remain connected.

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No U-Turn

94 min |

A road movie that starts in Lagos, Nigeria, and ends in Tangiers, Morocco, passing through Benin, Burkina Faso, Togo, Mali, and Mauritania to meet those who today, despite the dangers, dream of going elsewhere in Africa or Europe. The film reveals fragments of migrants’ lives, their fears and hopes, anger and resignation, but above all the reasons that push them to leave; family pressure, unemployment, socio-economic context accentuated by the pandemic, and thirst for freedom.

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No Simple Way Home

85 min |

As South Sudan hangs in the balance of a tenuous peace agreement, a mother and her two daughters’ return home from exile. The mother’s mission is to safeguard her late husband’s vision for their people, family, and country. Her daughters struggle to come to terms with what it means to call South Sudan home.

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What’s Eating My Mind

46 min |

After being diagnosed bipolar, Noella quit film school and returned to Kenya. She films herself and her family as they try to navigate this. She joins a support group, where she meets Nick who was diagnosed with Schizophrenia while studying to be a priest in Colombia. The group gives Noella community and escalating complications that she navigates while trying to maintain her mental health.

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Business As Usual

42 min |

Following the dealings of Mauritanian fixers ferrying migrants by sea, this film shows the human cost of irregular migration in West Africa juxtaposed against the slave trade from centuries before.

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Ime Ego

17 min |

Set in South-Eastern Nigeria, Ime Ego tells the story of Mercy’s hopes and dreams to join her groom who lives in Dubai, but the marriage negotiations between their two families fall apart in his absence.

 

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Zara’s Garage

33 min |

Dosso is a city in transformation, where old reference points are being challenged. The tradition of this community forces those who are native to it to give up learning and practising certain trades. It is the Tchékanda, people from elsewhere, who in this unusual socio-cultural theatre come to populate the city to make a career in these denigrated sectors. Attentive to this urban dramaturgy the director, Bawa Kadadé, tries to understand the evolution of this city and decides to go and meet the signs of its metamorphosis, notably embodied by Zara, a native Dossolese who defies the prohibitions by practising a man’s job as an apprentice mechanic to Daniel, a young man from a Beninese family. Between misunderstandings and determination, Zara tries as best she can to make her own way.

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The Last Shelter

85 min |

On the edge of the Sahara desert in the town of Gao, is a house of migrants – a refuge for migrants weary from unsuccessful attempts to cross the desert heading for Europe. Others there like teenage girls Esther and Kady are planning to cross the desert to chase their dreams.

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