Country:Niger

Director:Oumarou Ganda

Summary:

The second film of legendary master Oumarou Ganda who had gotten his start in films by playing the lead role in Jean Rouch’s Moi, Un Noir in 1959, is a good example of the double edged sword narrative so characteristic of him. A practicing Muslim takes the title of al-Hajj on his return from Mecca. However, this doesn’t stop him from lusting after the young Satou, promised to Garba. Furious, Garba feels he has no choice but to leave the village for the town.

Country:Niger

Director:Moustapha Alassane

Summary:

We return to that other father of Sub-Saharan Cinema, Moustapha Alassane, and one of his most uproarious and brilliant classics. Returning from a stay in the United States to his village in Niger, a man brings western outfits to his close buddies, who immediately identify with the cow-boy image and take to the plains in full regalia. A bloody western begins in the savannah... Alassane’s parallel meta cultural take is graphic, schizoid fever dream with an incredible sense of rhythm and quirkiness. Alassane manages to stress lightly comic and lurking dark aspects alternately.