Country:Burkina Faso

Director:Gideon Vink

Program:African Panorama

Summary:

During the civil war in Ivory Coast, as in other countries at war, the unmistakeable importance of the media in the dissemination of information and for forming public opinion is obvious. This journalistic portrait of Television Notre Patrie, the rebels TV station in the norhtern part of the country, is a thorough presentation of the history of this channel. Interviews with army commanders, correspondents, presenters and citizens, underline the power of the media and make clear that the war is just as much a battle of communication as it is an armed conflict.

Country:Burkina Faso

Director:Dani Kouyate

Summary:

Every year the most beautiful girl will be sacrificed to the Python God. But what really happens is that all the priests will rape her, and then murder her, so that she cannot reveal that the python god does not exist. When a girl named Sia is the next to be sacrificed, she hides with the village idiot, a man who goes around shouting criticisms against everything. But Sia is found by the soldiers and the village idiot is murdered. However the army commander has for some time prepared a revolt against the emperor.

Country:Burkina Faso

Director:Drissa Toure

Summary:

Here, a parallel universe can be discerned in one and the same place: Ouagadougou, with its buildings and its shantytowns... Wealth in a modern town and poverty in the suburbs. Through Fousseini -- a Muslim firmly attached to his faith and traditions - and his family, Drissa Toure draws a picture of Ouagadougou in the traps of modernism and traditionalism. Fousseini tries to take care of his family according to the old precepts and the code of honour inherited from his ancestors. One of his sons is a cinema projectionist and supports all the family against the will of his wife.

Country:United States of America, United Kingdom, Ghana, Burkina Faso

Director:Halie Gerima

Summary:

Sankofa is an Akan word that means, "We must go back and reclaim our past so we can move forward; so we understand why and how we came to be who we are today."