Côte d’Ivoire Movies

People from all over the Ivory Coast seek out prophet-healers for treatment of their medical and emotional problems. Some of these ailments may be cau...

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

Ymako Teatri, a theatre company based in the Ivory Coast, uses street theatre to question some contemporary West African problems. Their originality c...

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 a...

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...

Dago inherits a trunk that contains the work of a lifetime, that of Paul Kodjo, the most significant photographer of the time of the newly independent...

Armel, Ahmed, Antoine, Ezechiel, Rougeot and Issa are motorcycle cabs at the Ahougnansou train station. Criticized and marginalized, they show organiz...

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 ni...

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 begi...

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

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

Ben a tedious teenage nerd try to have his first intimate experience with a beautiful prostitute named Cherry while his parents are away for the weeke...

In Boutelfil, on the edge of the Chadian desert, a community gather to discuss the recent drought. For the first time in 30 years, they decide to orga...

In a region where ocean deities are both revered and feared, Souleymane Sidibé is one of the pioneers of a new era of surfing in Ivory Coast. He inspi...

A pastor allows himself to be persuaded by his childhood friend, now a trafficker of smuggled medicines, to recover goods that a spirit has stolen fro...