Maka Kotto Movies

The recolonization of Africa, this time by the very blacks who had to flee it as exiles during the time of the original French occupation, is the...

Forest dwellers pound drums upholding rituals while urbanites cry "Progress!" More plunder the land's riches but newly defiant ones shout back.

A realistic look at the horrors of the slave trade, told entirely through the voice of a dead African slave whose spirit haunts the ocean route.

Lucien Hastier, known as "Lulu", is a locksmith in La Courneuve and a communist activist. He had never known his parents and had been raised by the...

A young Haitian (Michel Mpambara) who loves America visits his uncle (Maka Kotto) in Montreal.

Sucre Amer tells the story of a unique court case in which an event from the past is judged by a court of history. Major figures from history are...

The struggle of Victor Schœlcher for the abolition of slavery in the French colonies.

Nadege lacks the confidence to get what she wants from life... until the day she discovers a new passion that awakens the beast inside her.

The year is 1943 and the place is Balandou, a small village in Guinea. The plot revolves around Adjutant Mariani, some kind of a misfit. Despised by...

Lionel, a young Frenchman, who has just arrived in Cotonou, Benin, loses his car, airplane ticket and passport and his hopes in riots in the city.