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- A young man with magical powers journeys to his uncle to request help in fighting his sorcerer father.
- A young manager of a factory encounters a man walking along a road who says his family traditionally are servants to the manager's family. The manager offers him a job, and as he watches out for the other man's welfare, begins to see how the company mistreats its workers. The manager is challenged between his ethics and the pressure from others to protect his own interests as dire problems surface at the factory
- Finye tackles the generation gap in post-colonial West Africa. Its heroine is the pot smoking daughter of a provincial military governor who falls in love with a fellow university student, the descendent of one of Mali's chiefs.
- In the last days of 1999, after a few shots of a French supermarket, abundant in food and color, we hear Dramane compose a letter home to his father in Mali whom he then visits in the village of Sokolo. He meets the lovely Nana, and there are possibilities. People place long-distance calls from the post office. "Reaching people," says the postmaster, "is a matter of luck." Contrasts between Paris and Sokolo - between Mali and France and between Africa and Europe - are underscored by voice-over poems and comments by Aimé Césaire. A man dictates a letter to a brother in France: what is the nature of their hardships? People look for their place on this earth.
- Documents the rise and fall of a cruel and despotic village chief Guimba, and his son Jangine in a fictional village in the Sahel of Mali.
- In Bambara tradition, the dead is supposed to be the truth holder. But because they are no longer heard, the ancestors decide to speak for the very last time. They are going to tell their truth and then they will fall silent.
- Hamalla is banished from his village in Mali, due to ancient prejudices. He returns four years later versed in modern technology at a time in which the village's future hangs on the brink as the holy well of the ancestors, symbol of the spirituality of the entire community, is contaminated. In the face of epidemic, Hamalla's must convince the villagers of the need to purify the water.
- A young mute woman is raped and becomes pregnant, with disastrous consequences within her family. The film also sketches the social/economic situation in urban Mali in the 1970s, particularly in relation to the treatment of women.
- Two women rebel against the traditions of a village society.
- It's the holiday period of the Summer of 79, by the ocean. 10-year-old Jean realizes that his mother and father don't love each other anymore. Suddenly, the family is confronted with death.
- This is about a house in Bamako , an artist's house. This house is a link to his parents, to his history, to his memories. One day in 2008, his sisters are unlawfully evicted from it. This is also about Mali. A country he has witnessed falling into war, regardless of the tolerance that has been its tradition ever since it gained independence.
- An adultery drama set in a bourgeois family in Bamako, Mali, where tensions are rife within the household: Mimi, bored with the polygamy and routine of marriage, wants to leave Issa. She has a lover, Aba. How will all three cope with this?
- A young brother and sister try to balance school and their menial jobs in order to be able to continue their education and so that their impoverished family can make ends meet.
- Zanga is driven out of his village. After many years, he returns to find out who is father is. At the moment of his arrival, something happens that the villagers interpret as the river spirit Faro's angry reaction to the bastard's coming.
- A young forest ranger who sees that his work holds the key to the future of his country is disgusted at the short-sighted, money-grubbing ways of his superiors.
- "Sand fishing" within the river Niger: the lack of water and fish forces Mali's inhabitants to create a new livelihood. Young men take sand from the riverbed and sell it to the flourishing construction industry. A Sisyphus story which offers a true insight into the protagonists' situation
- The story of Zamiatou, a Songhaï woman, in North Eastern Mali. With two young sons, a pretty daughter and a handicapped husband, Zamiatou struggles to survive in a remote and barren area. She doesn't want her daughter to "work" for white people, but her determination will take her far from her family
- This revealing film documents the remaining fragments of the nomadic Tuareg culture and examines a people's struggle for survival from a variety of perspectives.
- Ada goes swimming in the Icelandic sea and reflects on raising a child in a country that feels nothing like home. As she enters the freezing water, she relives her traumatic pregnancy. Soon her swimming eases. Facing her fears is helping her heal.
- A free-spirited, materialistic young woman tries to resist family pressure to find a husband.
- A farmer in rural Mali is using a groundbreaking alternative plant-breeding model to save his village from hunger and the scourge of climate change. What if this model can also help avoid a worldwide food crisis?
- Tells the story of Madina who lost her sight in 2002. Madina is the only Malian woman that can play Lora that is an instrument traditionally played by men from Griot families in Africa.
- The "Wise Ones" have told the King of Ségou that a baby boy will be born during the rainy season, who will be a threat to his power.
- A man and an African mask both return to their native Mali, where they embark on an ethnological road trip, which transforms with every step deeper into the African bush, eventually reaching a zone where magic and reality take turns providing the answers.
- Black African students go to study in Quebec but find it hard to fit in.
- Daily life in a rural village of Mali. Harvest, children's games, a wedding, a theft, the clumsy intervention of the police, and a leper despised by the whole village.
- About the Sigui Dogon festival, which lasts seven years and takes place only every sixty years. The Dogon are an ethnic group living in the central plateau region of Mali, in West Africa. Through dances they celebrate the invention of speech, the rebirth of the Earth and the death and memory of the Dogon ancestors. Next Sigui Dogon festival will be held in 2027.
- Novelist, essayist, playwright, journalist, editor, academic and social activist Ngugi wa Thiong'o was born in Kenya, in 1938 into a large peasant family. In 1977 his novel Petals of Blood was published to critical acclaim. The novel painted a harsh and unsparing picture of life in neo-colonial Kenya. Sharply critical of the inequalities and injustices of Kenyan society, publicly identified with unequivocally championing the cause of ordinary Kenyans, and committed to communicating with them in the languages of their daily lives, Ngugi was arrested and imprisoned without charge at Kamiti Maximum Security Prison at the end of the year, December 31, 1977. After Amnesty International named him a Prisoner of Conscience, an international campaign secured his release a year later, December 1978. The Moi regime's plot to eliminate him forced him into exile for 22 years. This documentary follows acclaimed author Ngugi wa Thiong'o as he and his political activist wife Njeri journey back to Kenya after years of exile. As they are welcomed home by joyous and hopeful crowds, they also must cope with those who still find their revolutionary words and deeds threatening.
- In Mali, 800 kilometers northeast of Bamako, the Dogon tribe of Arou prepare the funeral of their last "hogon", or religious chief. Due to economic and religious conflicts, the funeral was in 1992, eight years after the death of the hogon. Six weeks later, they prepare his successor, Ogomale, son of the hogon, who is nominated and enthroned as the new hogon. For the rest of his life, he will have to live away from the tribe, in a sanctuary located on top of the Bandiagara cliffs.
- Darkroom tells the story of a young mad woman, Fatou, who keep captive in a Darkroom, Babacar after having forced him to kill his own wife.
- A respected governor looks back on his tough childhood as a maltreated orphan, forced to make his own way in the world.