Night of the Kings
Set in Abidjan’s MACA prison, the aging Black Beard, in attempt to maintain control over his fellow inmates, resorts to a “story” ritual, wherein one prisoner is forced, Scheherazade-style, to tell stories for an entire night. The young pickpocket he chooses relays the haunting tale of the Zama King.
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Director: Philippe Lacôte
Actors: Abdoul Karim Konaté, Bakary Koné, Denis Lavant, Issaka Sawadogo, Jean Cyrille Digbeu, Laetitia Ky, Macel Anzian, Narcisse Aféli, Rasmané Ouédraogo, Steve Tientcheu, Zunon François Lopez
Preaching to the Perverted
Henry Harding MP, a British government minister on a moral crusade, hires an inexperienced young computer whizzkid, Peter Emery who works for a Christian computer company called Holy Hardware, to…
2010: Moby Dick
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Shine Your Eyes
Because he has not heard anything for a while from his older brother Ikenna, musician Amadi travels from Nigeria to the metropolis of São Paulo. But Ikenna remains missing.
Great Expectations
Miss Havisham, a wealthy spinster who wears an old wedding dress and lives in the dilapidated Satis House, asks Pip’s “Uncle Pumblechook” (who is actually Joe’s uncle) to find a…
Lady Macbeth
The passionate affair of a young woman trapped in a marriage of convenience unleashes a maelstrom of murder and mayhem on a country estate.
Savage
Inspired by the true stories of New Zealand’s street gangs across 30 years, we follow Danny at three defining moments in his life as he grows from a boy into…
A Mouthful of Air
Julie is a new mom and children’s book author, who escapes into the bright Crayola-colored world of her creation in order to leave behind the darkness caused by her post-partum…
Happily Ever After
When Heather and Sarah Ann were growing up they told each other every secret. But Heather left their small town on the last day of high school vowing never to…
Arracht
Ireland, 1845 on the eve of The Great Hunger. Colmán Sharkey, a fisherman, a father, a husband, takes in a stranger at the behest of a local priest. Patsy, a…