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Étalon de Yennenga

by roxen_96 • Created 5 years ago • Modified 5 years ago
The Étalon de Yennenga (Stallion of Yennenga) is awarded in the FESPACO biannual film festival to the African film that best shows Africa's reallities. Since 1972.
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  • Le wazzou polygame (1971)

    1. Le wazzou polygame

    197150m
    6.2 (89)
    An Islamic faithful returns from his holy pilgrimage to Mecca with the venerated title "el hajji". On his return he falls in love with his daughter's friend Santou, who is already engaged to be married to Garba. El Hadji however already has two wives and his second wife, Gaika, cannot stand the idea of another younger wife entering her house. She plots to kill Santou.
    DirectorOumarou GandaStarsOumarou GandaJoseph SalamatouZalika Souley
  • Les mille et une mains (1973)

    2. Les mille et une mains

    19731h 30m
    6.4 (79)
    In Morocco, an old dyer and his young son Miloud work transporting wool packs. So begins this story in the hands of thousands of old men, women and children involved in meticulous weaving carpets.
    DirectorSouheil Ben-BarkaStarsAbdou ChaibaneMimsy FarmerSi Ahmed
  • The Child of Another (1975)

    3. The Child of Another

    19751h 40mNot Rated
    7.0 (420)
    Ngando and Ndomé; are in love. Ngando wishes to marry Ndomé; but her family reminds him that the traditional dowry must be settled. Unfortunately, Ngando is poor and unable to fulfill the tradition. Ndomé; is pregnant and bears his child. According to the village tradition, she must take a husband, at least one who can afford to pay the dowry. The villagers decide that Ndomé; should marry Ngando's uncle, who has already three sterile wives. In despair, the young man kidnaps his daughter upon the day of the traditional feast. An African Romeo and Juliet story.
    DirectorJean-Pierre Dikongue-PipaStarsPhilippe AbiaSamuel BaonglaCatherine Biboum
  • Baara (1978)

    4. Baara

    19781h 30m
    6.5 (254)
    A young manager of a factory encounters a man walking along a road who says his family traditionally are servants to the manager's family. The manager offers him a job, and as he watches out for the other man's welfare, begins to see how the company mistreats its workers. The manager is challenged between his ethics and the pressure from others to protect his own interests as dire problems surface at the factory
    DirectorSouleymane CisséStarsBalla Moussa KeitaBaba NiareBubukar Keita
  • Djeli, conte d'aujourd'hui (1981)

    5. Djeli, conte d'aujourd'hui

    19811h 30m
    6.0 (52)
    Kramoko Kouyate, son of a griot, cannot marry Fanta who is of noble blood. In flashback, the film explains the origin of the problem and shows their attempts to get around it.
    DirectorFadika Kramo-LancinéStarsFatou OuataraJoachim OuataraEl Hadj Sindou Dembélé
  • The Wind (1982)

    6. The Wind

    19821h 40mNot Rated
    6.6 (308)
    Finye tackles the generation gap in post-colonial West Africa. Its heroine is the pot smoking daughter of a provincial military governor who falls in love with a fellow university student, the descendent of one of Mali's chiefs.
    DirectorSouleymane CisséStarsFousseyni SissokoGoundo GuisséBalla Moussa Keita
  • Histoire d'une rencontre (1983)

    7. Histoire d'une rencontre

    19831h 19m
    5.5 (51)
    Two deaf and dumb children. She is the daughter of an American Oil engineer. He is the son of an Algerian farmer. They meet and manage to communicate, transcending all the cultural barriers that separate them.
    DirectorBrahim TsakiStarsBoumediene BelasriCarine MattysAlan Gil
  • Sarraounia (1986)

    8. Sarraounia

    19862h
    7.1 (231)
    On January 2 1899, starting from the French Soudan, a french column under the commandment of the captains Voulet and Chanoine is send against the black Sultan Rabah in what is now the Cameroun. Those captains and their african mercenary troops destroy and kill everything they find on their path. The French autority try to stop them sending orders and a second troop but the captains even kill the emissaries who are reaching them. Sarraounia, queen of the Aznas, have heared about the exactions. Clever in war tactics and in witchcraft, she decides to resist and stop those mad men.
    DirectorMed HondoStarsAï KeïtaJean-Roger MiloFéodor Atkine
  • Heritage Africa (1989)

    9. Heritage Africa

    19891h 50m
    6.8 (62)
    The story of Quincy Bosomfield who is the product of colonial education and has risen to become the district commissioner. In the process, he abandons his African heritage and all that has real meaning to him.
    DirectorKwaw AnsahStarsKofi BucknorIan CollierAnima Misa
  • The Law (1990)

    10. The Law

    19901h 21m
    6.9 (697)
    Set in a pre-colonial African past, Tilai is about an illicit love affair and its consequences. Saga returns to his village after an extended absence to discover that his father has taken Nogma, Saga's promised bride, for himself. Still in love with each other, the two begin an affair, although it would be considered incestuous. When the liaison is discovered, Saga's brother, Koudri, pretends to kill Saga for the honor of the family and village. Saga and Nogma flee to another village, but when Nogma's birth mother dies, he returns home. Having brought ruin on the family, Saga is shot by Koudri, who walks off into exile and probable death.
    DirectorIdrissa OuedraogoStarsRasmané OuédraogoIna CisséRoukietou Barry
  • Au nom du Christ (1993)

    11. Au nom du Christ

    19931h 30m
    6.1 (218)
    A West African pig farmer has a religious vision, wherein he is told that he'll be Magloire the First, a prophet of Christ. He then sets out to rid his local villagers of superstition and instead save them for Jesus.
    DirectorRoger Gnoan M'BalaStarsArmand Romauld AnotchiAlbert AyatollahAkissi Delta
  • Guimba the Tyrant (1995)

    12. Guimba the Tyrant

    19951h 33m
    6.5 (256)
    Documents the rise and fall of a cruel and despotic village chief Guimba, and his son Jangine in a fictional village in the Sahel of Mali.
    DirectorCheick Oumar SissokoStarsIssa Falaba TraoréBalla Moussa KeitaHabib Dembélé
  • Buud Yam (1997)

    13. Buud Yam

    19971h 37m
    6.5 (230)
    In an early 19th century African village, Wend Kuuni - a young man, lives with his adopted family after his mother was killed as a witch. When Pughneere - his adopted sister - becomes ill, the villagers suspect Wend Kuuni. In order to save Pughneere's life (and his own) he must set out on a journey to find a healer. His quest brings him in contact with people around him and is a journey of self-discovery.
    DirectorGaston KaboréStarsJean-Claude BamogoAbderramane BoufachaAlassane Dakissaga
  • Identity Pieces (1998)

    14. Identity Pieces

    19981h 37mNot Rated
    6.2 (181)
    A Congonese king arrives in Brussels in search of his long-lost daughter.
    DirectorMweze NganguraStarsGérard EssombaDominique MesaHerbert Flack
  • Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets (2000)

    15. Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets

    20001h 30mNot Rated55Metascore
    7.3 (3K)
    A group of children living on the street leave their gang, prompting retribution from the gang's leader. After one of the children dies, the rest try to come up with the resources to give their friend a proper burial.
    DirectorNabil AyouchStarsMounïm KbabMustapha HansaliHicham Moussoune
  • Waiting for Happiness (2002)

    16. Waiting for Happiness

    20021h 30m
    6.6 (1.1K)
    The story of two people who cross paths in Nouhadhibou.
    DirectorAbderrahmane SissakoStarsKhatra Ould Abder KaderMaata Ould Mohamed AbeidMohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamed
  • Drum (2004)

    17. Drum

    20041h 34m
    6.4 (401)
    A hot-shot journalist is swept up in a movement to challenge Apartheid in 1950s South Africa.
    DirectorZola MasekoStarsTaye DiggsGabriel MannTumisho Masha
  • Ezra (2007)

    18. Ezra

    20071h 50mNot Rated56Metascore
    6.4 (312)
    Ezra is the first film to give an African perspective on the disturbing phenomenon of abducting child soldiers into the continent's recent civil wars. Ezra is structured around the week-long questioning of a 16 year old boy, Ezra, before a version of the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, created in Sierra Leone in 2002 in the wake of its decade long civil war. This hearing is then inter-cut with chronological flashbacks to pivotal moments during Ezra's ten years in the rebel faction which made him who he is.
    DirectorNewton I. AduakaStarsMamoudu Turay KamaraMariame N'DiayeMamusu Kallon
  • Teza (2008)

    19. Teza

    20082h 20mNot Rated78Metascore
    7.1 (657)
    The Ethiopian intellectual Anberber returns to his native country during the repressive totalitarian regime of Haile Mariam Mengistu and the recognition of his own displacement and powerlessness at the dissolution of his people's humanity and social values. After several years spent studying medicine in Germany, he finds the country of his youth replaced by turmoil. His dream of using his craft to improve the health of Ethiopians is squashed by a military junta that uses scientists for its own political ends. Seeking the comfort of his countryside home, Anberber finds no refuge from violence. The solace that the memories of his youth provide is quickly replaced by the competing forces of military and rebelling factions. Anberber needs to decide whether he wants to bear the strain or piece together a life from the fragments that lie around him.
    DirectorHaile GerimaStarsAaron ArefeAbiye TedlaTakelech Beyene
  • Pegasus (2010)

    20. Pegasus

    20101h 44m
    6.4 (108)
    Zineb is an emotionally exhausted psychiatrist assigned to Rihana, a traumatized and pregnant young woman found in the street muttering unintelligibly about "The Lord of the Horse." Soon, Rihana's story awakens repressed thoughts in Zineb's own troubled mind, and reality merges into a haunted fever-dream of fear and denial.
    DirectorMohamed MouftakirStarsSaadia LadibDriss RoukheAnas El Baz
  • Tey (2012)

    21. Tey

    20121h 26m
    6.4 (264)
    Satché is about to die. He decides to make his last day on this world the day of his life.
    DirectorAlain GomisStarsSaul WilliamsDjolof MbengueAnisia Uzeyman
  • Price of Love (2015)

    22. Price of Love

    20151h 39m
    6.9 (60)
    A young Addis Ababa taxi driver gets caught up in the dark side of love, causing his taxi to be stolen. He finds himself stuck in a relationship with a prostitute, making him confront his past and discover what is the price of love.
    DirectorHermon HailayStarsFereweni GebregergsKassahun GetatchewDawit Gulilat
  • Véro Tshanda Beya Mputu in Félicité (2017)

    23. Félicité

    20172h 9mNot Rated75Metascore
    6.4 (1.2K)
    Félicité sings in a bar in Kinshasa. When her 14-year-old son has a motorcycle accident, she goes on a frantic search through the streets of Kinshasa, a world of music and dreams. And her path crosses that of Tabu.
    DirectorAlain GomisStarsVéro Tshanda Beya MputuGaetan ClaudiaPapi Mpaka
  • The Mercy of the Jungle (2018)

    24. The Mercy of the Jungle

    20181h 31m
    6.2 (308)
    The Mercy of the jungle is a road movie that deals with wars in Congo through the eyes of two lost soldiers in the jungle by showcasing their struggle, weakness and hope.
    DirectorJoël KarekeziStarsAbby Mukiibi NkaagaCédrick Mbongo MbuluNsereko Mazinga Henry

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