Ivory Coast Movies

Young Africans in Paris face insecurity and vague future. Should they stay in France, or return to their homes?

Estelle runs a successful hair salon but is unlucky in love, so her friends decide to hold auditions to find her the perfect man. But the ideal guy...

The scene is set in Southern Burkina Faso, and also in different parts of the Ivory Coast. Five women are shown with their daily burdens and one can...

An Ivorian father and his daughter set out to continue the book he never finished about a war he experienced as a child. With children in his village...

Fred, a single thirty something, manages a cinema. His sister, Maria, wants him to marry, but none of the women she introduces him to seem to his...

A few days before his wedding to Gbale, Bandama Deback decides to celebrate his bachelor party with a few friends, who organize a trip to Assinie....

Suggested by Mama Watta, a legendary water goddess who seduces men into captivity, the film depicts the symbolic encounter of a man and a woman one...

This intimate documentary follows a bride-to-be who, according to Manding tradition, must spend the three days before her wedding in seclusion....

Two Ivorians historians explorers get caught in an evil spiritual experience connected to the past of one of them.

In the Ivory Coast, Ali (Toure) is a poor policeman who struggles to make ends meet for his wife, Awa (Kabore) and three children. Ali is excited and...

In the 21st century many ancestral beliefs are struggling to survive in a hostile, fast-changing world. In southeast Ivory Coast, some Akan...

Kramoko Kouyate, son of a griot, cannot marry Fanta who is of noble blood. In flashback, the film explains the origin of the problem and shows their...

The story of Ivory Coast artist, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, who created four hundred pictograms, based on one-syllable words in his...

After years of financial hardship, an African mask sculptor obsessed with his art finds success for the first time. But just as his works finally...

Among the Senufo people of northern Côte d'Ivoire, the balafon (xylophone with calabash resonators) is an emblematic musical instrument....

Fabrice, a non-verbal autistic child whose drawing becomes a powerful means of expression, seems to have the solution to a situation that threatens...

Siaka Diabaté is a musician at Bouaké, the second largest town in the Côte d'Ivoire. Through his mother's family he is Senufo,...