Mauritania (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
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Timbuktu (2014)
A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives -- which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith -- abruptly disturbed.
Oh, Sun (1967)
A native of Mauritania is delighted when he is chosen to work in Paris. However, he is disappointed when he sees racial inequity as blacks are relegated to manual labor while less skilled whites are given preferential treatment.
Waiting for Happiness (2002)
The story of two people who cross paths in Nouhadhibou.
Life on Earth (1998)
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 ... See full summary »
Sarraounia (1986)
On January 2 1899, starting from the French Soudan, a french column under the commandment of the captains Voulet and Chanoine is send against the black Sultan Rabah in what is now the ... See full summary »
West Indies (1979)
This vast musical fresco covers hundreds of years of history from enslavement to 20th-century immigration. Set on an enormous slave ship and boasts a dazzling array of brilliant choreography, wide-ranging musical styles and sharp satire.
Rostov-Luanda (1998)
Born in Mauritania and raised in Mali, Abderrahmane Sissako received a scholarship to study film in Moscow, after graduating from school. To learn Russian, he was sent to Rostov on the Don ... See full summary »
Jihadists (2016)
Filmmakers expose the radical ideologists indoctrinating thousands of jihadists.
The Game (1991)
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Fatima, the Algerian Woman of Dakar (2004)
In the summer of 1957, during the Algerian war, the Senegalese sub-lieutenant Souleymane Fall discovers among the bushes a young girl, Fatima, stunned, her eyes bulging with fear. He rapes ... See full summary »
Beyond: An African Surf Documentary (2017)
Africa, Europe - Europe and Africa: Surfers live differently on each continent and Africa marks a special place - as surfing is in many places at its very beginnings. 'Beyond - An African ... See full summary »
October (1993)
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Travelling for Beauty (2013)
Perceived 'too big' in her home country and currently confronted with the relevance of 'body' and 'beauty', author Tine Wittler travels to Mauritania, a country in the Sahara desert where ... See full summary »
Waiting for Men (2007)
In Mauritania, a country seemingly bound by tradition and male dominance, three women speak freely about sex, love and money.
Les Bicots-Nègres vos voisins (1974)
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Free Bullet (2015)
Nioumoune Island, Senegal. Boniface, a young priest torn between his desires, escapes from his parish. The edge of his makeshift boat, it crosses a disturbing maze of mangroves. In search ... See full summary »
Nous aurons toute la mort pour dormir (1977)
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End of the Road (2010)
Desperate to dispel the ridicule of their peers, two life-long friends attempt to travel 4000 miles across seven countries and the Sahara desert in a car bought for 100 pounds.
Letters to Angel (2011)
Film about a man who was sent to fight in Afghanistan years ago, where he converted to Islam. He now returns home only to find himself facing another kind of war.The front line in the ... See full summary »
Days of Hope (2014)
Every year thousands of Africans leave their families behind and risk their lives in hope of a better life. Days of Hope, brings us close to these people, providing an inside look at the struggles these emigrants face.
Sheikh Ponzi (2019)
"Sheikh Ponzi" exposes the shady business practices of Sheikh Ali al-Rida, a prominent religious leader with close spiritual ties to the Mauritanian president Gen. Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz.
Daesh Mauritania (2020)
A documentary about religious extremism in Mauritania and those who fight it.
Safrana or Freedom of Speech (1978)
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Still Slaves: The West African Slave Trade Then and Now
Through the lens of ancient slavery in West Africa, 'Still Slaves' explores the rampant slavery, known to most as human trafficking, that continues to thrive along this notorious coastline.... See full summary »
Watani, un monde sans mal (1998)
Two men of different backgrounds lose their respective jobs, setting off a series of events that brings them together in tragic circumstances.
I Don't Touch the Gold (2014)
Mama Sissoko is responsible for cleaning central point in the village. Children and adults work in an extreme conditions,they don't have proper equipment so they use mercury to find gold. ... See full summary »
Trail of Hope (2016)
On the deserted highway Nouakchott-to-Nouadhibou, a young self-centered taxi driver meets a woman whose story becomes a stimulating experience on morality and responsibility towards women's rights.
Our Marine World Heritage (2010)
What do the Phoenix Islands in the Pacific Ocean, the Wadden Sea in the North Sea and Cocos Island National Park in Costa Rica have in common? These are just three of the 43 exceptional ... See full summary »
Adrift: People of a Lesser God (2010)
ADRIFT- People of a Lesser God is the story of an incredible odyssey made by several-times Pulitzer Prize-nominated undercover reporter Dominique C. Mollard. In this gripping story, Mollard... See full summary »
Chinguetti - Cidade da Tolerância (2008 Video)
This documentary describes a society and the traditions of one of the most important Islamic cities in the Muslim world that is under a permanent threat of disappearing due to the ... See full summary »
La Guera, my forgotten land (2015)
Mohamed lives in Nouadhibou, in Mauritania. But he can always see the ghost of his former town in front of his eyes. Aalien, the postman, fled to refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria. But he's... See full summary »
Slavery's Last Stronghold (2012 TV Movie)
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Bordeaux-Nouakchott (2006)
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Reewo Daande Maayo (1979)
A semi-fictional and semi-documentary study of the effects of irrigation on a pastoral people in Southern Mauritania and Northern Senegal commissioned by SONADER, a public agency run by Mauritania's Ministry of Rural Development.
La blessure de l'esclavage (2009)
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Partout peut-être ou nulle part (1967)
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I Love Mali (2013)
Since the beginning of 2012, the war in northern Mali has provoked the displacement of 250,000 people. More than 75,000 are now refugees in Mauritania, living in the Mberra camp. Most of ... See full summary »
From Slavery to Empowerment: Haratin women in Mauritania (2015)
Female Haratins face double discrimination both as members of the 'slave caste' and because they are women. They face the threats of forced and/or early marriage (in order to maximise their... See full summary »
Carnets d'un grand détour (2011)
From Gibraltar to Bamako. If you were to were to walk all the way, what sort of encounters would be in store for you ? Would the routes of different migrations cross ? Would the path ... See full summary »
Des traces sous le bitume (2005)
Embarked in a convoy of old jalopies in a road movie between France and Mauritania, the directors meet unconventional characters living according to their own moral, and film their unorthodox portraits: a strange outing across the desert.
Njinga (2014)
Explorer/adventurer, Kate Leeming has cycled the equivalent of twice around the world at the Equator. Kate's incredible Expedition - A ten month, 22,040km journey across Africa from Point ... See full summary »
It's Up 2 U (2008 Video)
The globalisation leaves behind profiteers and victims. But the boundary between them does not follow national or continental borders. The Mauretanian camel milk dairy at the edge of the ... See full summary »
The Difference (II)
The perpetual rumbling of wagons on rusty tracks disappearing on desert horizon. The bleating of goats suffering from heat and thirst. Freight cars with Bedouins and cezve of strong mint ... See full summary »
Rahman (2017)
A journey seeks deep to the soul of a place that turned from an exile of illegitimate children and garbage into a space for cultural diversity and cinema in Nouakchott, Mauritania.
Ballade aux sources (1965)
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