Niger Movies

While separating peanuts from their shells, the women in a collective in Agadez, Niger, talk to each other about the men passing by and the filmmaker...

The film is about how a virtual relationship through cell phone can influence a remote village and it's people and thereby brings forth a change...

A revealing one-shot portrait of two Nepali newlyweds in a moment of rest and playful interaction, Stephanie Spray's Untitled challenges our...

A young woman struggles to provide for her son while waiting to receive money from her husband. When she hears that a neighbour’s husband has...

I'm lonely.

In February 1974, Pam Sambo Zima, the oldest of the priests of possession in Niamey, Niger, died at the age of seventy-plus years. In his backyard,...

Singing of sorrow when a loved one falls ill

One taxi driver, the other mechanics or masons. They drive a moped as Johnny Halliday and wear pants Zazous. During the weekend, they play in a real...

Directed by Mustapha Diop.

Based on a traditional folktale, this animated film follows the hero Sambagana, who must complete a succession of arduous trials in order to make a...

We miss our mom, who was always so kind to us.

The festive citizens of the Kingdom of Frogs crowd into an arena to watch their warriors engage in hand-to-hand combat and to see Tountia and her...

The plot traces the historical narrative of Shankhadhar paying off the debt of all the residents of Kathmandu Valley, and thus beginning the calendar...

In the Village of Gorkha We Grow Pure Love

A man and a woman meet in a village, singing and dancing and courting.

Serge Moati describes his film as "the saga of the 'children of the roads', builders of the future who "will one day cross countries that will look...

Nepalese youths dance wildly!

In her short film, SAVOIR FAIRE LE LIT, Macky discusses taboos in sexual education and the implications for the relationship of mothers to their...

Suicide bombers are chosen by chance and their funeral rites accomplish the work of God. On this particular day the envoy of God is twelve -year-old...

The Himalayan region of Nepal is one of the most fragile environments in the world and is characterized by extreme uncertainty and great complexity....