Adanggaman (2000)

Summary: In West Africa during the late 17th century, King Adanggaman leads a war against his neighboring tribes, ordering his soldiers to torch enemy villages, kill the elderly and capture the healthy tribesmen to sell to the European sla...

Release Date: September 21, 2001

Genre: Drama

Director: Roger Gnoan M'Bala

Writers: Jean-Marie Adiaffi

, Bertin Akaffou

, Roger Gnoan M'Bala

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: Unrated

Production: Abyssa Film, Amka Films Productions, Canal+ Horizons, Fondation Stanley Thomas Johnson, Fondazione Monte Cinema Verità, Fonds D'aide a La Création Cinématographique, IMTM Films, L'Agence de la Francophonie (ACCT), Ministère de la Culture, Ministère des Affaires Étrangères, RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana, Radiodiffusion-Télévision Ivoirienne (R.T.I.), Rai Cinema, Renardes Productions, Repubblica e Cantone del Ticino, Televisione Svizzera Italiana (TSI)

Countries: France, Switzerland, Cote d Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Italy, Côte d'Ivoire

Language: French

Domestic: $ 28,664

Lumumba (2000)

Summary: The true story of controversial leader of independent Congo Patrice Lumumba.

Release Date: September 27, 2000

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Raoul Peck

Writers: Pascal Bonitzer

, Dan Edelstein

, Raoul Peck

Runtime: 1 h 55 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: JBA Production, Entre Chien et Loup, Essential Filmproduktion GmbH, Velvet S.A., Arte France Cinéma, Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF), ZDF/Arte, Canal+, Vlaamse Radio en Televisie (VRT), Cofimage 10, Eurimages, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Fondation GAN pour le Cinéma, Ministère des Affaires étrangères et du Développement International, L'Agence de la Francophonie (ACCT)

Distributor: Zeitgeist Films

Countries: France, Belgium, Germany, Haiti

Language: French

Domestic: $ 352,296

West Beirut (1998)

Summary: In April, 1975, civil war breaks out; Beirut is partitioned along a Moslem-Christian line. Tarek is in high school, making Super 8 movies with his friend, Omar. At first the war is a lark: school has closed, the violence is fascin...

Release Date: October 30, 1998

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Ziad Doueiri

Writer: Ziad Doueiri

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: 3B Productions, ACCI, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Exposed Film Productions AS, L'Agence de la Francophonie (ACCT), La Sept-Arte, MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Ministère de la Culture de la Republique Française, Ministère des Affaires Étrangères, Norsk Rikskringkasting (NRK), Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF), Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)

Countries: France, Norway, Lebanon, Belgium

Language: Arabic

Movie budget: $ 800,000

The Promise (1996)

Summary: Roger uses his son Igor to ruthlessly traffic and exploit undocumented immigrants. When one of the immigrants is killed, Igor is guilt-ridden and wants to care for the dead man's family against his father's orders.

Release Date: May 16, 1997

Genre: Drama

Directors: Jean-Pierre Dardenne