Benin Movies

In the deserts of Benin, shepherds struggle with droughts and a changing environment as they herd animals through ancestral lands.

Honoré and Grégoire prepare their mother’s funeral. They are faced with the common and individual expenses inherent to funerals in Porto-Novo (Benin)....

Two men meet on a casting bench installed on the shore of a beach. Suddenly, a love story is born.

Every people, every human being, has a need to assert themselves. However, one can only assert oneself through one’s culture. My Father is Goun and my...

Oseye, a young American-Beninese girl, moves back to Benin with her mother and discovers her new surroundings.

In 1964 in a village in Bénin, an oracle predicts a bright future but also a bad omen for the baby KEMI. Sixteen years later, the future of KEMI, now...

A group of young students visits a remote village in Bénin, but when the village monarch chooses one of them to be his new wife, trouble erupts.

Feature film that played at FESPACO in 2007.

Agouénou, a newcomer to a government agency, takes on the entrenched corruption and butts heads with the leader of the old-guard, Sénou. The film feat...

A 28-year-old African woman dreams of becoming a model. In the meantime, she works as a hairdresser to save money for a modelling course.

A sacrifice ritual in Dahomey [Benin].