Benin Movies

A sacrifice ritual in Dahomey [Benin].

Vodoun Gods On The Slave Coast explores the ceremonial splendor of sacred dance and ritual in Benin, the birthplace and cradle of Vodoun. Formerly...

A young anthropologist is invited by the Batammariba people in northern Benin to help document and restore the architectural heritage of their...

A 28-year-old African woman dreams of becoming a model. In the meantime, she works as a hairdresser to save money for a modelling course.

Sètchémè (20 years old) is a young albino girl. She is different from her parents and her sisters, who, on the other hand, are...

Every people, every human being, has a need to assert themselves. However, one can only assert oneself through one’s culture. My Father is Goun...

Two men meet on a casting bench installed on the shore of a beach. Suddenly, a love story is born.

Oseye, a young American-Beninese girl, moves back to Benin with her mother and discovers her new surroundings.

The president of an African country, suffering from seeing its rich natural resources exploited only by western corporations, decides to nationalize...

Combining poetry, dance, music, and archival audio, Danse Macabre paints a portrait of the human psyche, drawing on the work of Dr Carl Jung. The...

Spreading across the beach and streets of Benin. A moving letter from a mother to her future daughter expresses the challenges and joys of growing up...

In 1964 in a village in Bénin, an oracle predicts a bright future but also a bad omen for the baby KEMI. Sixteen years later, the future of...

Feature film that played at FESPACO in 2007.

When Yacumba the Queen of Circles is attacked by the Man in Red, her Power Heart is Gone, she and her Royal subject Vangirai would travel through...

Honoré and Grégoire prepare their mother’s funeral. They are faced with the common and individual expenses inherent to funerals...

Director Hawa Aliou N'Diaye explores Malian tradition, myth, and the ethereal through interviews with women who-like her-claim to be possessed by...

Documentary dedicated to Patrice Lumumba. FESPACO 1985: Prize of the city of Ouagadougou and special mention of the Organization of African Unity...

In the heart of the ancient Benin Kingdom, one man’s courage would shape history forever. Uti, the brave son of Ozede, faces a divine...

A group of young students visits a remote village in Bénin, but when the village monarch chooses one of them to be his new wife, trouble...