Kounandi

Patrick, a young Frenchman in his thirties, has been working for a year in a small village in Burkina Faso. He has a relationship for a few months with a 25-year-old village girl, Kaya, who becomes pregnant. When their daughter Martine is born, Patrick flees with her to Europe. The shock of this loss makes Kaya mute. Seven years later, Patrick returns to the village to maintain the boreholes he had built. He arrives with his daughter Martine. The villagers welcome him with reservation. Patrick learns that Kaya has gone silent. Unfortunately, not being able to stay too long in the village, Patrick entrusts Martine to Kaya for a few hours. Discovering her daughter's poor upbringing, Kaya decides to run away into the night with Martine...

Civil war looms in Abidjan and relations begin to fray within a family in this tense and atmospheric thriller.

Zaphira is young woman who lives with her 7 year old daughter. She hates her environment and wishes a better life for her daugther. One day, she comes across a fashion magazine which illustrates many young beautiful fashion models. She has a revelation: her daughter will be a model. In a village where this profession is unknown, Zaphira will do everything for her dream to come true.