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- The humble and hardworking Orodoto Balbuena finally gets an opportunity of realizing his lifelong dream of reaching New York and living the "American Dream", but soon finds out that things aren't as pretty as he thought.
- The Hausa feature film is a story of love and the power of dreams in the midst of the violence and terrorism in Nigeria's northeast and is based on eyewitness account. It follows the story of a bright, promising girl, Salma who was held captive by a daring terrorist group along with 245 of her schoolmates. Despite her seemingly hopeless reality, she refuses to give up on her huge dreams. The struggle to regain freedom and realize her dreams leads to unfathomable pains and deaths.
- A fight between an Imam and his powerful brother over their children's marriage. At stake: how a small community slowly drifts towards extremism.
- A young woman from Niger returns to her home village after finishing college abroad.
- Twin sisters Husinatu and Hassanatu decide to migrate together from their homeland, Sierra Leone, to the Middle East in search of better futures for themselves, their children and their parents. Despite the frustrating former experiences with Husinatu in the Middle East, they are now both determined to achieve their goal. Facing the coronavirus crisis, they search for money in order to obtain new passports, visas and travel arrangements through legal and illegal migration agents. The decision to migrate creates a conflict with their parents. The father has always been supportive, but the mother, who wants them to get married and build a life in their own country, tries to stop them. But the twins don't want a man controlling them and seek independence as they are convinced that a better life is not in their home country. This is a film about family relations, the search for independence, and a better future in opposition to family traditions.
- At night, the young boy Ama and his companions travel through the bush of Boli Bana. A herd of huge and at the same time benevolent cattle accompanies them. By day, the young girl Aissita is the center of attention of Boli Bana village. A witch has arrived for a ritual: For Assista this is the beginning of adulthood. It is a nomadic and mystic world that comes into being through the eyes of these children. A Fulani childhood in Burkina Faso.
- In Mauritania, black political prisoners from the old colonial fortress of Oualata are known as "Le Cercle des Noyés". The film unveils frangible memories by one of these former prisoners who remembers his story and that of his companions in misfortune.