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Tarzan, having acclimated to life in London, is called back to his former home in the jungle to investigate the activities at a mining encampment.

Denis Mukwege, Nobel Peace Prize 2018, is a Congolese doctor who risks his life to heal and become a world leading activist for thousands of women who have been raped and mutilated in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

After years of prescription medications failed her, a woman turns to the underground to try and overcome her depression, anxiety, and opioid addiction with illegal psychedelic medicine, like magic mushrooms and iboga.

Ibogaine: Rite of Passage follows an American heroin addict through an ibogaine session at a clinic in Tijuana, Mexico. Through a series of critical interviews with former addicts, ibogaine facilitators, and other experts, the documentary asks if the controversial status of ibogaine is due to economics or to its hallucinogenic effects? [maps.org]

Filmmaker Luc Jacquet ventures into prehistoric rainforests and finds a world in perfect balance where every living thing plays an essential role.

In November 2017, twelve indigenous elders gathered at the United Nations in New York to create an energy of healing for the current state of our planet. Interviewing each one of them in their home contexts, we followed three of the twelve, who travelled for the first time from the isolated coast of Siberia, the mountains of Colombia, and the deserts of Botswana. Geographically diverse, the twelve elder's messages are unified what needs to be done to change the course our planet is taking. Mindfulness may be mainstream, but this film delves into the depths of what it really means to be human.

Take a remarkable trip across the globe to discover beautiful lands, from steep mountains to lush jungles. Your itinerary includes flights above Yellowstone, the Amazon, the Rocky Mountains and China.

This biographical drama/documentary narrative written by Dr. Albert Schweitzer and spoken by Fredric March, traces the life of Dr. Schweitzer (with actors playing the characters), from his birth in France up to about the age of 30 when he makes the decision to go to French Equatorial Africa and build his jungle hospital. The latter half of the film encompasses a full day in the hospital-village following the 80s-plus Samaritan in his daily rounds.

Gabon is an unlikely Eden where relentless predators stalk prey in lush forests and primates, who have not yet learned to fear man, live right alongside forest elephants. Against all odds, one visionary African leader and a group of dedicated scientists defied the conventional wisdom that insists oil and logging are the only way to bring prosperity to an impoverished land. Out of the wild they created 13 new national parks - and are now developing an eco-tourism industry to sustain them. Gabon: The Last Eden tells this amazing story with stunning footage - silverback gorillas defending territory, mandrill baboons faces splashed with day-glow color, and hippos wallowing in the ocean - exploring one of the planet's last true wildernesses and what is being done to save it.

Religion, mysticism and reality entwined. A Cast & crew of western culture artists and misfits travel to Gabon, Africa, the believed origin of the Garden of Eden.. home of one of the most powerful psychotropic plants on Earth. Their experience mimicked the script but the film never got made.. the documentary did.

A nature documentary reality series that focuses on African wildlife and its natural habitat featuring a safari tour guide named Ushaka who takes viewers on an adventure throughout the "dark continent".

For most people the equator is just an imaginary line running 25,000-miles around the globe. But the countries along the equator are among the most troubled on the planet. In this new series Simon takes a journey around the region with the greatest natural biodiversity and perhaps the greatest concentration of human suffering: the equator. In Equator Simon meets illegal loggers, father and son circumcisers, drunk villagers, and a young woman stuck in the baking desert. Simon and the Equator film-crew are protected by soldiers in a coca field, and UN 'peace-enforcers' in a gold mine. They are blackmailed and abandoned by drivers in one country, and travel through another that has just 300 miles of paved roads - despite being the size of Western Europe. Simon is drenched while white-water rafting, surrounded by a million flamingos and swallowed by a tidal wave. After being warned about the deadly virus Ebola, Simon vomits blood and develops a temperature of nearly 40C. Diagnosed with malaria, he's saved by medicine derived from the Vietnamese sweet wormwood. One remote tribe takes Simon to their sacred monument, while a father from another tribe of former head-hunters decides to make Simon part of the family. After presenting his 'father' with a fine pair of trousers, Simon is blessed with blood, presented with a short sword, and adopted. Simon discovers a matrilineal society where daughters are called 'iron butterflies', mass graves in the jungle, and islands where protesting fisherman have killed giant tortoises. He helps an orphaned orangutan into a tree, swims with sea-lions, fishes for piranha, climbs the equivalent of half-way up Everest, and discovers the city thought to be most at risk from volcanic eruptions. Simon's trip takes him through the nation suffering the worst humanitarian crisis in the Western hemisphere, and the African country that's endured the most violent conflict on the planet since the Second World War

Fernand Lepoko's short film "Maléfice" is a production of the IGIS (Intistut gabonais de l'image et du son) under the direction of Charles Mensah and Henri Joseph Koumba Bididi. It tells the story of Solange, interpreted by Chimène Akendengue, who is convinced that her family is the victim of a curse that caused the death of her first two children. She will therefore, try to save the life of her last son Kumi, despite the reticence of her husband Guillaume, role played by Olivier Messa, shared between the love of his family and the fear of his father Mounkal, role played by Phillipes Mory, very powerful sorcerer with multiple mystical powers. While William, subject to the demands of his father Mounkal leads the child to his death, Solange goes to consult a healer who will reveal to him the heavy and morbid secret of William her husband who is under the occult domination of his father Mounkal. She will then undertake a journey in search of the cure that will save her son from a programmed and certain death. Solange, a beating woman, does not know that at the end of the road a discovery of the most unlikely awaits him and will upset his existence forever. She will have to choose between saving her son Kumi and losing Guillaume her husband in an ultimate battle between the forces of good and those of evil. Will she succeed in achieving her goal of saving her son Kumi, promised in sacrifice to the terrible sorcerer Mukal by his father William? You have to see the film to see it and understand it.

Ken Murray shares three decades of personal home movies of dozens of Hollywood stars. Not only does he share his own, but home movies from several celebrity friends, as well.

Salvage cars in Berlin are fixed up specifically for a cross continent run though Africa. They face breakdowns, extreme terrain and even robbery.

Carlo Ercole, a maestro of Italian cinema, asks his assistants to depart immediately for the Central African rainforest to find some Pygmies, "the incarnation of life", for the film he plans to shoot in Paris. Hardly cut out for such an adventure, Marc and Olivier are thrown into the maelstrom of a major African city. With the help of their beautiful guide, Désirée, they eventually make it into the equatorial rainforest, headed for a Pygmy Utopia...

Award-winning documentary tells the story of Dave, a former stockbroker/millionaire whose life has spiraled out of control due to his heroin addiction. In his desperate quest to become clean, Dave agrees to undergo treatment with ibogaine, an experimental substance derived from the West African root Iboga, which has recently been reported to cure drug addiction. Facing the Habit is an intimate look into the life of the addict, as Dave's life is revealed before, during, and after the treatment.

This film tells the story of the president of a fictitious African nation who spends a sleepless night playing checkers with a pot-smoking vagabond who claims to be the all-round champion. However, the rules of the game entail the opponents howling vulgar and foul obscenities at one another. The champion proceeds to insult, and trounce, the President. His reward, and his fate, will not surprise anyone.

Follows in an unconventional way the journey of 'Ish', a former Miami based rapper, who traveled to Africa to visit family. Little did he know that Libreville (Gabon) would be the place where the project of his dreams would fall on his laps. Against all expectations the alchemy born between him and 2 local beat-makers would lead to the making of a potential first album. Written and directed by Marc A. Tchicot and Franck A. Onouviet, the film captures glimpse of great encounters and musical moments between people from opposite backgrounds driven by the same passion: music. 'The Rhythm of my life' belongs to the new generation of short films, which combine fiction and documentary style. Deeply grounded in the line of non-formatted and guerrilla style independent projects, The Rhythm of my life set a different direction for film-making in Gabon and Africa.

A collection of six documentary films featuring various locations and cultures of the world, screened at the Musée du Quai Branly from 18-23 May.

The story of two friends Anna and Vylda in their teenage daily lives.