Côte d’Ivoire Movies

Ymako Teatri, a theatre company based in the Ivory Coast, uses street theatre to question some contemporary West African problems. Their originality consists in using the ‘invisible theatre’ method in order to surprise the public and thus make it react itself...

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 night on the beach. The two share dreams on the sand but with daylight comes disorientation and death.

The story of Ivory Coast artist, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, who created four hundred pictograms, based on one-syllable words in his language, Bété, to help people in the Bété community learn to read more quickly.

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 attempts to get around it.

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

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 begin to sell, they suddenly seem to come to life and become characters in their own right.

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 taste. One day, during a screening, he meets young Caramel. They fall in love. But who is she really?

Armel, Ahmed, Antoine, Ezechiel, Rougeot and Issa are motorcycle cabs at the Ahougnansou train station. Criticized and marginalized, they show organization and solidarity, determined to make their dreams come true.

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 giddy When he learns that the lottery ticket that Awa bought him is a 3,000,000 winner. But after an extended,...

In the 21st century many ancestral beliefs are struggling to survive in a hostile, fast-changing world. In southeast Ivory Coast, some Akan communities still make contact with the spirits through Komians or animistic priests who go into a trance and are posses...

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 caused by the stress of cultural change. Often Western medicine cannot cure them. This stunningly photographed fi...

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 Côte d'Ivoire. It is the beginning of an exciting story that will link the lives of these two people who have...

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. Gbale is obsessed with the wedding she has been waiting for her whole life. The party turns into a nightmare when...

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 weekend. To succeed, he needs instructions from his best friends Jack and Tommy.

At the beginning of the 20th century in Jacqueville, near Abidjan in the Côte d'Ivoire, traditional music was forbidden by the missionaries. But the inhabitants' enjoyment of their local festivals proved stronger, and the little town developed its own brass ba...

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 from him. Indeed, rumors say that a demon haunts the streets of Abidjan: the one who cries.

A parody of a gangster movie. A group of Africans arrange to meet on a beach near Abidjan to organize a hold-up. They are ready to kill and they take an oath, calling on the goddess Mamy Wata as their witness. On the day of the hold-up, everything goes smoothl...