Catalog 2026 | Quibdó África

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Sisters in Destiny- Angela Davis & Gerty Archimède Directors/Writers: Pascal Frederic Archimede, Dimitry Zandronis Producers: Dimitry Zandronis, Baptiste Brunner Guadeloupe / 2025 / 52'40 Documentary Two women. Two continents. One shared fight. From Guadeloupe to the United States, Sisters in Destiny explores the intertwined journeys of Gerty Archimède, a trailblazer of feminism.	Mango Director/Writer: Joan Iyiola Producers: Laura Jumel, Alison Holder, Mary Iyiola, Joan Iyiola Director of Photography: Yinka Edward Editors: Xanna Ward Dixon, Patrick Walsh United Kingdom / 2025 / 11' Fiction Zadie is an independent florist who is privately suffering from fibroids but is determined to take her career to the next level. When a dream job arrives, Zadie searches for help in order to control her morphing body, but the unwanted growths threaten to take over.	Three Black Men Director: Sienna McLean-LoGreco Producers: Kurt Schemper, Victoria Santos, Sienna McLean-LoGreco United States / 2026 / 99' Documentary Can Blackness escape the violence of its origins? Three Black men embark on a transformative journey along the transatlantic slave route in reverse.
Aisha Can't Fly Away Director/Writer: Morad Mostafa Producer: Sawsan Yusuf Egypt, Sudan / 2025 / 90' Fiction Aisha is a 26-year-old Sudanese caregiver living in a neighbourhood in the heart of Cairo, where she witnesses the tension between her fellow African migrants and local gangs.	Carabali Director/Writer: Medhin Tewolde Producer: Daniela Contreras, Nicolas Défossé Mexico / 2026 / 18'20 Documentary An Afro-Colombian community leader is threatened and forced into exile. Far from his land and family, Carabalí resists in displacement, clinging to the hope of returning one day to the place where he belongs.	Amazonas Cocinas Indígenas de Selva y Río Director/Writer: Jairo Garrido Producer: Ricardo Malagón Colombia / 2026 / 13' Documentary This documentary explores the ancestral knowledge preserved through the kitchens of the forest and the river. Through traditional recipes, gathering practices, and the deep relationship between people and nature.
Kanekalon Director/Writer: Sara J. Asprilla Producer: Karol Mora Albarracin Colombia / 2025 / 12'30 Fiction Teyo, a trans girl, gets ready to start at her new all-girls school. As she journeys through Quibdó, a warm and vibrant city, she navigates the rhythms and gazes that greet her before stepping into class.	Father's Day Director/Writer: Ayana O'Shun Producers: Ayana O'Shun, Bianca Bellange Canada / 2025 / 74' Documentary Father's Day is an intimate and powerful documentary that explores the legacy of absent fathers in Black communities across North America and the Caribbean.	Bertha Director/Writer: Laura Asprilla Producer: Laura Asprilla Colombia / 2025 / 12'44 Fiction ULDA (65) refuses to take charge of her macho husband's funeral because he died in another woman's bed. At home, only Bertha, a mischievous goat, remains as her companion while she returns to the woman she once was.
Amelia Director/Writer: Badewa Adeseye Ajibade Producers: Badewa Adeseye Ajibade, Abisola Yussuf Nigeria / 2025 / 23' Fiction Defiance, strength, bravery, love, and loss—these are the heart of Amelia's story. More than just a tale about our protagonist, it is uniquely told through her perspective. As a married Nigerian woman living in relative poverty in the year 2002.	Concrete Moves Director/Writer: Fagamou Fama Ndiaye Producers: Chloe Ortolé Diop, Fagamou Fama Ndiaye Senegal / 2025 / 12' Experimental Concrete Moves is inspired by a childhood memory: the fear triggered by a snake during a school trip to the Mamelles lighthouse in Dakar. Returning to that same hill decades later.	Gloria Director/Writer: Marvin Yamb Producers: Murielle Thierrin, Alexandre Collombier French Guiana / 2025 / 15' Fiction When Gloria discovers a deep secret that her daughter Ilana confides in her, she struggles to react, trapped in the silence of religion and traditions that suffocate her family.
Manman Chadwon Director/Writer: Gwladys Gambie Martinique / 2022 / 10'13 Experimental An anthem to fantastic femininity, to life, to freedom, and to metamorphosis, at once intimate and revolutionary. It is a sensory chant, a dreamlike reflection on the feminine condition within a destructive masculine world.	AltaNegra Directors: Raiza De La Hoz, Daniela Ponce Writers: Caridad Brito, Raiza De La Hoz, Daniela Ponce Producers: Natalia Bolaño, Aldair Rodriguez, Selena Toro, Andrés Betín, Andrea Almazo, Biulida Pérez Colombia / 2025 / 25'59 Fiction In a territory marked by promises of equality and realities of exclusion, being young, Black, and from a rural community becomes an act of everyday resistance.	Domingo Director: Day Sena Writer: Amós Heber Producers: Marcos Alexandre, Day Sena Brazil / 2026 / 20' Fiction One Sunday tells the story of a possible encounter between Samuel and a stray bullet. The bullet comes from a gunshot fired in the favela where Samuel lives. On a sunny Sunday, Samuel decides to take advantage of his day off to go to the beach.
Café ? Director/Writer: Bamar KANE Producer: Bamar KANE France / 2025 / 24'59 Fiction Ouzin, Baba and Sémou, longtime friends and retirees, never miss their daily coffee meetup. But every year, in April, Sémou is haunted by the loss of his first love. One afternoon, as Ouzin and Baba grow concerned about their friend, Sémou doesn't show up for coffee.	Captain Antony Director: Gregory Robinson Writer: Alfred Robinson Executive Producer: Alex Cottrell Director of Photography: Lucas Mejía Colombia / 2025 / 8' Fiction In 1942, Anthony is a ten-year-old boy living on the island of Providencia, Colombia. He dreams of becoming a great schooner captain like his father, and goes to school every day to learn about the sea and navigation from his teacher Fabio.	LAUNDRY (Uhlanjululo) Director/Writer: Zamo Mkhwanazi Producers: Philippe Coeytaux, Zamo Mkhwanazi, Jim Stark, Nicolas Wadimoff, Marco Orsini South Africa / 2025 / 105' Fiction South Africa, 1968. Apartheid is the law of the land. Khuthala, a talented young musician, wants nothing to do with his family's laundry business. He dreams of jazz, of a life shaped by music, not by soap and steam.
A King Displaced Director/Writer: Olayinka Eno Babalola Producer: Olayinka Eno Babalola Nigeria / 2026 / 19'57 Documentary Daniel Hungbeji navigates his daily life both as a fisherman and as a traditional ruler within the water settlement of Makoko, Lagos, Nigeria.	Free Fall Director, Writer: Wilson Borja Producers: Diego Felipe Rios, Maria Paula Lorgia Original Score: Carolina Borja Sound Design: Carolina Lucio Compositing: Carlos Andres Alarcón Animation: Simon Beltran, Juan David Aristizabal Colombia / 2024 / 9' Animation In a desperate attempt to escape isolation, a faceless character leaps from a ledge hoping to find his end, unaware that at the bottom of the fall, the laws of gravity do not apply to him: he bounces back.	God's Work Director/Writer: Michael James Producer: Sithabile Mkhize Music Composer: George Acogny Co-Producer: Marco Orsini Executive Producers: Toni Monty, Gary Springer South Africa / 2025 / 126' Fiction In a derelict building on the outskirts of Durban, a group of homeless men carve out a fragile existence amid violence, addiction, and the constant threat of being erased.
Happy Meal Director/Writer: Johanna Makabi Producers: Sonia Makabi, Juliette Schrameck France / 2025 / 19'50 Fiction DOM, 32, is undergoing therapy. As the Christmas holidays come to an end, he is granted, for the first time in years, the right to spend a day alone with his daughters. A precious day... that he dreads seeing come to an end.	La Tinaja Directors/Writers: Ernestina Miranda, Mar Ajé Producer: Madre Monte Colombia / 2025 / 13'47'' Experimental Where do we keep our memories? Where do they endure? How do we evoke them? An epiphany dispels forgetfulness and reconstructs the bond between Esther, the protagonist, and her ancestors through the world of dreams, her mother's memories, and the restoration of an inherited clay vessel.	A Cor da Patroa Director: Milena Anjos Writer: Leandro Souza Producer: Heraldo de Deus Brazil / 2026 / 24'48 Fiction With classes suspended due to police tension in retaliation for a community protest, a child accompanies his mother on a workday as a domestic worker and is surprised to meet her employer.
Hacker Leonilia Director/Writer: Gustavo Fontele Dourado Producers: Gustavo Fontele Dourado, Luciana Menescal Landwehr, Rafael Moura, Lorena Figueiredo Production Companies: Fontele Studios, Algo Além Filmes, Avera Filmes, Toti Produções, Madá Produções Brazil / 2025 / 14'59 Animation In the future, an elderly hacker and embroiderer must confront her own traumas and use her skills to escape a virtual reality. This story is based on the life of my grandmother, Leonilia Ferreira.	Hyphen Director/Producer: Reine Razzouk Associate Producer: Maria Termanini Cinematographer: Rachelle Noja, Talal Khoury Production Designer: Issa Kandil Editors: Zeina Aboul Hosn, Reine Razzouk Music & Sound Design: Karim Khneisser Lebanon / 2023 / 98' Documentary When Nicole reveals to her childhood friend and cousin, Reine, that she's been addicted to heroin since she was 13, they decide to document Nicole's rehab journey. Hyphen follows her struggle to move out into the world as an adult.	INITIATION INTO THE EIGHTH DIMENSION Director/Writer: Lucas Silva Producer: Samuel Moreno Alvarez Colombia / 2025 / 90' Documentary Five Afro-Colombian characters in the middle of Bogotá, five disparate destinies in a city that is hostile to them. Rubi Quejada, a young model displaced from Chocó.
Mojugba Director/Writer: Gustavo Alonso Arias Producer: Fanny Milena Quiñones Colombia / 2026 / 23'33 Documentary, Experimental Fanny, an Afro-Colombian leader, turns the Mojugba, a Yoruba ritual of ancestral invocation, into an act of resistance. In a country that tries to erase its history, she teaches that remembering is revolutionary.	Leer en las gotas de lluvia Directors: Lilián Pallares, Charles Olsen Writer: Xisca Minart Producer: Antenablue Spain / 2025 / 10'24 Experimental An Angolan artist and mother, her four-year-old daughter, and a New Zealand painter create imaginary worlds in new lands. These find echo in the poem by Xisca Minart, Read in Raindrops.	305 Fishkill Avenue Director/Writer: Ramel Westry Producers: David M. Night Maire, Ramel Westry United States / 2026 / 15' Fiction A kind-hearted janitor witnesses dangerous criminal activity at his neighboring apartment building: 305 Fishkill Avenue. The problem is no one believes this address even exists.
Memórias com Vista pro mar Director/Writer: Marton Olympio Producer: Rafael Leal Brazil / 2025 / 20' Fiction An 80-year-old Black painter escapes from a nursing home and takes refuge on a beach bench. There, lost memories gradually resurface. As he comes face to face with the waves of his past, he re-evaluates his life, sketches new perspectives, and reconnects with his son.	AFICHE SOÑE ESPAÑOL_CMYK_70x100_2026 Director: Ángela Carabalí Colombia / 2025 / 85' Documentary After 30 years denying her pain, Ángela is confronted by her past when her father appears to her in a dream, asking her to find him. With her sister Juliana, she embarks on a journey across Colombia to the Indigenous lands...	Nunkui Director/Writer: Verenice Benitez Producer: Isabela Parra Ecuador / 2025 / 90' Fiction Nunkui lives in a Shuar community and dreams of the feminine spirit of the garden, also called Nunkui, just like her. While her aunt teaches her songs and the secrets of cultivation, the vast Amazon rainforest they call home is handed over to transnational mining companies, and evictions begin in the area.
O ANCORADOURO DO TEMPO Director: Sol de Carvalho Writer: Mia Couto Executive Producers: Jacinta Barros, Paula Ferreira, Sol de Carvalho Producers: Jacinta Barros and Rui Simões, Sol de Carvalho Paulo Roberto de Carvalho and Gudula Meinzolt, David Constantin, Zézé Gamboa Production: Real Ficção Co-production: PROMARTE, Autentika Films, Gamboa e Gamboa, Caméléon Mozambique / 2024 / 105' Fiction IZIDINE, a recently promoted police detective, is called to a nursing home located in a former colonial fortress.	Of Mud and Blood Director/Writer: Jean-Gabriel Leynaud Producer: Valdés. Pallas Film DR Congo / 2025 / 94' Documentary In Numbi, an isolated village in the mountains of the Congo, life revolves around the rush for coltan, a "rare earth" indispensable for electronics. The fatality that affects the inhabitants embodies the insidious mechanisms of capitalism in the 2020s.	When the world broke open Director/Writer: Desiree Mbakumua Meiffret Producers: Vickson Hangula, Desiree Mbakumua Meiffret, Veundja Katuuo United States / 2026 / 29'59 Fiction At the height of the 1904 Herero and Nama genocide in German South West Africa, a young, pregnant Herero woman named Jorokee flees the smoldering ruins of her village with her husband Unomuinjo...
Orango Poster Director: Samuel Kay Forrest Writers: Staniel Ferreira, Samuel Kay Forrest Creator: Staniel Ferreira Producers: Arthur Grec, Evelijn van Brandenberg, Staniel Ferreira Guinea-Bissau / 2024 / 94' Doc-Drama / Experimental Eny, a painter in Berlin, and his sister Titina embark on a journey through West Africa after 17 years of exile from Guinea-Bissau following their mother's passing, exploring their ancestral homeland.	The Travelers Director/Writer: David Bingong Producers: Irene Gutiérrez Torres, David Bingong Cameroon / 2025 / 60'20 Documentary On the border between Morocco and Spain, we wait impatiently for the "patera" (boat) to cross into Europe. After one failed attempt after another, we survive, and I, "the Artist," must keep the flame of hope alive for the entire group.	Poseseas Director: Sebastian Wiedemann, Daniel Cortés Producer: John Echavarria Cañas Colombia / 2025 / 16'18'' Documentary, Experimental Based on a critical and counter-current review of the historical figure of Javiera Londoño, an 18th-century landowner who supposedly contributed to the abolition of slavery in the region of Antioquia, Colombia.
RELATOS DE LA GUAJIRITA Director: David Antonio Diaz de la Rosa Producer: Edwin Ivan De Angel Barreto Colombia / 2025 / 51'19 Documentary Relatos de la Guajirita tells the story of the Afro-descendant communities of Becerril, Cesar, through their memories, traditions, music, and oral narratives.	Refugiar el gesto Director: Adrián Villa‑Dávila, Andrés Prado Writer: Adrián Villa Dávila Producer: TRAGALUZ Colombia / 2026 / 10'53 Documentary A group of young dancers who witnessed the gradual disappearance of the traditional Danza de las Tabliteras.	Stormy Days Director/Writer: Vítor Bitencourt Rocha Producer: Laís Araújo Brazil / 2026 / 19'20 Animation Ahura is a wheelchair carrier who tries to escape at all costs, but finds Gymbia being attacked. He saves her and begins his journey in search of love and freedom.
Surviving Biafra- Voices from the Nigerian Civil War Directors: Meji Alabi, Leke Alabi-Isama Producer: Charlie Northcott Nigeria / 2026 / 75' Documentary Surviving Biafra is a feature documentary directed by Meji Alabi and Leke Alabi-Isama, exploring the Nigerian Civil War through the eyewitness accounts of those who survived it.	The Banjo Boys Director: Johan R. Nayar Producers: Tim Delhaes, Johan Nayar, Neil Nayar Malawi / 2025 / 76' Documentary The Banjo Boys follows the electrifying rise of Madalitso Band, a Malawian duo—Yobu Maligwa and Yosefe Kalekeni—who built their own instruments into a banjo, a one-stringed babatone (bass), and a foot drum,	Mi viche todo el dia Director: Juan Camilo Moreno Production: Leandro Hernández Castro, Jhonan Cardona Cinematography: Tininiska Simpson Sound Director: Jhonan Cardona Field Production: Marcela Mosquera, Ana Panesso Screenplay: Jhonan Cardona, Juan Camilo Moreno Music: Ana Panesso, Angel Mena and Sabrosura P. Colombia / 2025 / 26'26 Documentary In the Medio Atrato region of Chocó, Ana Panesso and her community grow sugarcane and produce viche, an ancestral beverage once prohibited and now in vogue.
The Black Bart of Taco King #17 Director/Writer: Rickey Larke Producers: Rickey Larke, Preston Purchase, Lyandre Pierre, Julian Park, Lo Howard, Lorelle Lynch, Charles Taylor Goubeaud United States / 2024 / 11'20 Fiction A suave criminal searches for a new partner at a dive bar and finds the perfect Bonnie to his Clyde. He takes her to dinner to put her to the test, yet she has all the answers... and more.	The Last Dance Director/Writer: Hayden Mclean Producers: Lurleen Johnson, Harold Salakianathan, Hayden Mclean, Ade Adesina United Kingdom / 2025 / 16'39 Fiction When Fox's "LA Bar" is hit with a compulsory purchase order, a cornerstone of Caribbean life in 90's East London is threatened. As the city begins to forget, the community remembers.	The Madmen Coach Director: Carlo Liberatore Writers: Carlo Liberatore, Valerio Tommaso, Santo Rullo Producers: Valerio Di Tommaso, Carlo Liberatore Cinematography: Gabriele Bucari, Carlo Liberatore Original Music: Patrizio Maria D'Artista Italy, Senegal / 2025 / 60' Documentary In Dakar, Malick Biteye forms a football team made up of players with mental disorders. In a context of absolute poverty, the stories and desires of these men, who fight against stigma, intertwine.
The One who Cries Director: Cyrille Gueï Producer: Lucas Sénécaut France / 2025 / 20' Fiction A shepherdess is convinced by her childhood friend, who has become a seller of fake medicines, to go and retrieve the goods that a spirit supposedly stole from her. In fact, a rumor is circulating that a demon is prowling the streets of Abidjan: "The Weeper."	Viche Director/Writer: Jorge Eliecer Leudo Murillo Producer: Sharon Kathiana Ochoa Ibarguen Colombia / 2024 / 17'10 Fiction In the heart of Chocó, Diógenes, a young Afro-Colombian university student, lives trapped between the traditions of his grandfather Anacleto, a master viche producer, and his own aspirations to go out into the world and build a different life.	Viva Yurumanguí Directors: Emma Christopher, Sergio Leyva Seiglie Writer: Emma Christopher Producer: Emma Christopher Cinematography: Javier Labrador Deulofeu, Sergio Leyva Seiglie, Yerson Arroyo Arroyo Editor: María Alejandra Briganti, Irene Cajias Sound Editor: Isabel Torres Reyes Colombia / 2025 / 80' Documentary On the remote Pacific coast of Colombia, the inhabitants of the Yurumanguí palenque still fight for freedom, hundreds of years after their ancestors fled slavery.
Wrong Generations Director/Writer: Shili Munyama Producers: Jenny Kandenge, Lavinia Kapewasha Namibia / 2026 / 64'53 Fiction Following a series of brutal murders—the last of which takes the life of his childhood friend—a group of estranged best friends reconnects to organize the largest protest in post-apartheid Namibia.	Face to face Director: Florent Mahoukou Producer: Florent Mahoukou R. Congo / 2021 / 19'54 Experimental At a difficult moment in his personal and professional life, choreographer Florent Mahoukou returns to the city of Pointe Noire, where, for him, everything began with dance.	Sapeur Director/Writer: Denis F. Miala Producers: Denis F. Miala, Lourenço M De Carvalho, Alberto Mende Angola / 2026 / 120' Fiction In the slums of Palanca, in Luanda, the charismatic mechanic and sapeur Jacob promises his son Alberto a house he cannot afford. Desperate, he teams up with his shady friend Lunda in a scam: posing as a wealthy landowner to sell non-existent plots of land to French investors.

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