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Timbuktu
The peaceful lives of a Timbuktu cattle herder and his family are abruptly upended by the arrival of militant Islamic rebels.
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- Mauritania, France • 2014
- Director Abderrahmane Sissako
- Cast Ibrahim Ahmed, Toulou Kiki, Layla Walet Mohamed, Abel Jafri, Kettly Noel, Hichem Yacoubi
- Genre Drama
- Available on MUBI, Fandor Amazon Channel, Cohen Media Amazon Channel, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Kino Now, Tubi TV, Kanopy
Waiting for Happiness
(Heremakono)
A man visits his mother in his old neighborhood before immigrating to the West.
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- France, Mauritania • 2002
- Director Abderrahmane Sissako
- Cast Khatra Ould Abder Kader, Maata Ould Mohamed Abeid, Mohamed Mahmoud Ould, Nana Diakité, Fatimetou Mint Ahmeda
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Life on Earth
(La vie sur terre)
A man returns to his home country to visit his father and ends up befriending a beautiful woman.
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- Mali, Mauritania, France • 1998
- Director Abderrahmane Sissako
- Cast Abderrahmane Sissako, Nana Baby, Mohamed Sissako, Bourama Coulibaly, Keita Bina Gaousso, Mahamadou Dramé
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Letters to Angel
(Kirjad Inglile)
A soldier converts to Islam in Afghanistan and returns home hoping to find his daughter.
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- Estonia, Finland, Mauritania • 2011
- Director Sulev Keedus
- Cast Tõnu Oja, Ragne Pekarev, Ketter Habakukk, Tiina Tauraite, Mirtel Pohla, Katariina Unt
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Sarraounia
A rogue French outfit goes on a murderous rampage, with only Sarraounia, queen of the Aznas, capable of stopping them.
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- Burkina Faso, Mauritania, France • 1986
- Director Med Hondo
- Cast Aï Keïta, Jean-Roger Milo, Féodor Atkine, Didier Sauvegrain, Roger Miremont, Luc-Antoine Diquéro
- Genre Drama, History, War
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Oh, Sun
(Soleil O)
A Black immigrant searches Paris for his ancestors, desperate for work and shelter.
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- France, Mauritania • 1973
- Director Med Hondo
- Cast Robert Liensol, Théo Légitimus, Ambroise Mbia, Gabriel Glissant, Akonio Dolo, Greg Germain
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
October
(Октябрь)
An expecting mother meets with her lover, an African student, one last time before he must leave Russia.
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- France, Mauritania, Russia • 1993
- Director Abderrahmane Sissako
- Cast Wilson Buyaya, Irina Apeksimova, Andrei Baratov, Klavdiya Belova, Valentin Cherbakova
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Watani: A World Without Evil
(Watani, un monde sans mal)
Two men of different backgrounds, one white, one Black, lose their jobs on the same day and their lives spiral.
- France, Mauritania • 1998
- Director Med Hondo
- Cast Patrick Poivey, Coumba Awa Tall, Mboup Massyla, Anne Jolivet, James Campbell, Sabine Lods
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty
(West Indies ou les Nègres marrons de la liberté)
An epic history of French colonial oppression and enslavement in the West Indies set on a slave ship.
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- France, Algeria, Mauritania • 1979
- Director Med Hondo
- Cast Robert Liensol, Roland Bertin, Philippe Clévenot, Hélène Vincent, Théo Légitimus, Georges Hilarion
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Safrana or Freedom of Speech
(Safrana ou le droit à la parole)
A group of itinerant African workers in Paris learn from farmers on the Gold Coast to grow their own agriculture.
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- France, Mauritania • 1978
- Director Sidney Sokhona
- Cast Med Hondo, Carrie Sembene, Joseph Akouissone, Evane Hanska, Gérard Guérin, Béatrice Boffety
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
End of the Road
Two comedians travel four thousand miles in a cheap old car across seven countries and the Sahara desert.
- Senegal, Mauritania, France • 2010
- Director Richard Nicholls
- Cast
- Genre
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Game
(Le jeu)
A soldier spends one last day with his wife and son before returning to war, meanwhile kids play war outside.
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- Soviet Union, Mauritania • 1991
- Director Abderrahmane Sissako
- Cast Altine Hodjaev, Hodjaberdy Norliev, Bechim Nouriev, Tehary Saitliev
- Genre Drama, War
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Days of Hope
A close look at the shocking struggles of illegal immigrants traveling across the Mediterranean, from Africa to Europe.
- Denmark, Italy, Mauritania • 2013
- Director Ditte Haarløv Johnsen
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Apple TV
Rostov-Luanda
A man returns to war-torn Angola in search of a friend and discovers both immense despair and hope.
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- Angola, Mauritania, France • 1998
- Director Abderrahmane Sissako
- Cast Abderrahmane Sissako
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Black Wogs, Your Neighbors
(Les Bicots-nègres, vos voisins)
An exploration of the cultural imperialism and exploitation of migrant labor undertaken by French neo-colonialists.
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- Mauritania, France • 1974
- Director Med Hondo
- Cast Armand Abplanalp, Jean Berger, Claude Debord
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
We Shall Have the Whole of Death to Sleep
(Nous aurons toute la mort pour dormir)
After the withdrawal of Spain from Western Sahara, the local inhabitants band together in an armed struggle against Moroccan and Mauritanian forces.
- Mauritania, France • 1977
- Director Med Hondo
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Jihadists
(Salafistes)
An investigation into the ideologies and methods of jihadists in North Africa.
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- France, Mali, Mauritania • 2016
- Director Lemine Ould Salem
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Fatima, the Algerian Woman of Dakar
(Fatima, l'Algérienne de Dakar)
An Algerian woman is raped and impregnated by a Senegalese officer whose father demands he marry Fatima.
- Mauritania, Tunisia, France • 2004
- Director Med Hondo
- Cast Aboubacar Sadikh Ba, Amel Djemel, Thierno Ndiaye Doss, Mame Ndoumbé Diop
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Rahman
(رحمن)
A cinema is repurposed as a safe space for illegitimate children to stay off the streets and watch movies.
- Mauritania • 2019
- Director Deepak Gattani
- Cast A. R. Rahman
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Hunger Of The World
(La faim du monde - Sahel, la faim, pourquoi?)
An exploration of the French neo-colonial destruction of African agriculture and economics that led to mass starvation.
- Mauritania, France • 1981
- Director Med Hondo, Théo Robichet
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Nemadis, the Years Without News
(Némadis, des années sans nouvelles)
Documentarians return to Mauritania in search of the nomadic hunter family they filmed six years ago.
- Belgium, Mauritania • 2000
- Director Benoît Mariage
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
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