Benin Movies

A sacrifice ritual in Dahomey [Benin].

Son du Serpent tells the story of a modern African in his frantic search for his wife who disappeared. The film unfolds as a road movie. Longing for...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

In the deserts of Benin, shepherds struggle with droughts and a changing environment as they herd animals through ancestral lands.

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

Documentary about an Ivorian emigration agency.