Catalogue des films de « Christophe Naigeon »

Ouessè, a village in Bénin, a radio set up by French-speaking countries but run by a local management committee and completely autonomous thanks to solar energy : the story of Radio Ouessè began and changed the life of the inhabitants in a...

"I'm eleven, my name is Hitler Killer. This is the fighting name they gave me in the bush. My real name is Abraham." In Liberia they are 6,000 to be like him, lawless, pitiless armed teenagers. Today Hitler-Abraham is a street-boy in Monrovia....

A humorous and bitter portrait of a lectured Beninese farmer who should have become a bureaucrat. Léandre, as a true Beninese, went to school up to the last form. But at the end of his studies the fear of unemployment led him back to the land....

Empangeni, a small middle-class town in the Natal where ANC demonstrators accuse the IFP of massacring their members. The local representative of the ANC denounces police complicity. In Ndondwane, a small village of the Mthetwa reserve, a few...

Princess is a pretty little girl, happy and sometimes dreamy. At school she is a little the teacher's special care. She arrived in her class in the middle of the school year when she had one morning to leave suddenly her house on fire, abandoning...

Sibongile Zungu is a woman doctor. She lives as a member of the middle-class, as do the few coloured people who have managed to attain the living standards of the Whites. She also represents Zulu tradition : on her husband's death she fought to...

"In a war we usually talk of battles fought by armies. In Liberia, we just talk about massacres and it is the civilians who get killed". These are the words of Henri Andrews, a writer, a lecturer and a journalist. This document progressively...

The war in Angola has lasted 20 years. A whole generation has known only fear, hunger, destruction. This forgotten, unending conflict is one of the most murderous that Africa has known. In December 1994, during one of the many short-lived truces...

The massacres in Rwanda stopped in August 1994. In four months one Rwandais out of ten was killed. Hundreds of thousands of others have taken refuge in the camps. Since September the first peasants have begun to come out of hiding and out of the...

The massacres in Rwanda ceased in August 1994. In the space of four months one out of ten Rwandais had been killed. Hundreds of thousands of others took refuge in the camps. What happened ? How was such mass madness possible ? Was it really, as...