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Io Capitano

It. 2023. Drama by Matteo Garrone with Seydou Sarr, Moustapha Fall, Issaka Sawadogo. Exposed to the perils of smugglers and brigands, two Senegalese cousins cross the African continent to reach Libya, the starting point for their sea passage to Europe.

Runtime: 121 min.

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Le Jeune Imam

Fr. 2023. Drama by Kim Chapiron with Abdulah Sissoko, Hady Berthé, Issaka Sawadogo. An ambitious young man, who has become imam of his French city to impress his stern Malian mother, involves his followers in a not-so-clean scheme to make the pilgrimage to Mecca.

Runtime: 98 min.

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Twist à Bamako

Fr. 2021. Sentimental drama by Robert Guédiguian with Alice Da Luz, Stéphane Bak, Issaka Sawadogo. The romance between a socialist activist, son of a prosperous merchant, and a young girl who is fleeing an arranged marriage in 1960s Bamako.

Runtime: 129 min.

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Night of the Kings

V.O.: La Nuit des rois

Fr. 2020. Drama by Philippe Lacôte with Bakary Koné, Steve Tientcheu, Issaka Sawadogo. In an overcrowded prison in the Ivory Coast, a new prisoner is forced by the chief inmate, on the verge of death, to play the role of storyteller for an entire night.

Runtime: 93 min.

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Samba

Fr. 2014. Dramatic comedy by Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano with Omar Sy, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Tahar Rahim. An undocumented Senegalese man who has been in France illegally for 10 years befriends a depressed immigration volunteer.

Runtime: 119 min.

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Diego Star

Can. 2013. Drama by Frédérick Pelletier with Issaka Sawadogo, Chloé Bourgeois, Yassine Fadel. While waiting for his cargo to be repaired at the shipyard in Levis, an Ivorian mechanic, wrongly blamed for the damage, is lodged with a single mother.

Runtime: 90 min.

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The Invader

V.O.: L'Envahisseur

Bel. 2011. by Nicolas Provost with Issaka Sawadogo.