Catalogue des films par mot-clé
Nicolas Jouvin | France | 1998 | 48 mn
In Mauretania, on the extreme western edge of the African desert, lives the people of the million poets. The griots, musicians, poets (an inferior caste) lived with the shepherds and warriors between a peaceful life and tribal wars. They drew...
Abderrahmane Sissako | France, Allemagne, Belgique | 1998 | 60 mn
17 years ago, Abderrahmane Sissako met Bari-Banga, a young Angolese liberation war soldier. It was in USSR, Rostov-on-the-Don. The film-maker's quest starts from Kifa, his birth place in Mauritania. Thanks to his encounters, Abderrahmane Sissako...
Bernard Orcel | France | 1997 | 52 mn
This is the tale of three young men from Mauritania : one lives on the western Atlantic coast, in waters which gives the richest harvests in the world. The other one raises his camels in the heart of Mauritania. And the third one sits on the bank...
Marie-Hélène Baconnet | France | 1996 | 26 mn
Surrounded by a deafening dawn chorus, tens of thousands of birds take off and fly over the huge sand banks on the coast of Mauritania. A fantastic landscape of sand and water, where the Sahara meets the atlantic ocean, the Banc d'Arguin National...
Emmanuelle Bada, Benoît Mariage, Marie-Soleil Frère, Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd | Belgique | 1996 | 26 mn
Hindou is only 28 years old. However, in Mauritania, she was the first woman to get involved in the fight of the opposition press, the first woman to dare to sign virulent political statements. Today, with "Calame", the country's main independent...
Nicolas Jouvin | France | 1995 | 52 mn
In Mauritiania, the Imraguen await December to make the best catch of the year. They scan the ocean from the beach, watching out for schools of mulets. The minute they spot the fish, two men plunge into the ocean and beat the water with long...
Karel Prokop | France | 1995 | 52 mn
A growing climatic inbalance and ecological catastrophies have led to the birth of what have been baptized "Refugees of the environment". Neither political nor economic refugees, these women and men are the victims of a global environmental...
Nicolas Jouvin | France | 1995 | 52 mn
In their heyday, there were perhaps 1,000 throughout the world and not less than a hundred in Mauritania. A real army, fitted for the job : to feed the people of the USSR. After the Perestroïka and the breaking-up of the Soviet Union each newly...
Agnès Gaillour | France | 1995 | 15 mn
Ali Sylla comes from the village of Djougountourou in Mauritania. Today he is living in France, in the Soundiala centre in Epinay. He recounts his life here, his desire to return home, the fight that he puts up to try to change the future, to...
Thierry Devillet | Belgique | 1994 | 28 mn
A portrait of an Islamic country. The hardship of living in a country invaded by sand, the flight from the villages to the cities, the efforts to plant trees, raise livestock and grow crops. Foreign ships plundering the country's fish resources....