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Jimmy Jean-Louis

Actor

Films

The Cursed Ones

The Cursed Ones

By Nana Obiri-Yeboah, Maximilian Claussen

2015 | 101 min | Drama

A disillusioned reporter and an idealistic young pastor, fight to free a girl accused of witchcraft from the clutches of a superstitious village in the heart of West Africa. A series of misfortunes lead a West African village to accuse a young girl, Asabi, of witchcraft. The old Pastor insists that salvation lies in her exorcism and death, using his compelling rhetoric to incite fear into the people and turn Asabi’s mother against her own daughter. Disillusioned reporter, Godwin finds himself swept ...

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Muller Corner Africa

Muller Corner Africa

2014 | Documentary

MULLER CORNER AFRICA is a documentary series about a forgotten African Quarter in Berlin-Wedding. Director Martin Helmbrecht meets it diverse inhabitants. Rob is a second-generation owner of the "Roy Dunn's Western Gates" shop. Israel Kaunatjike and Mnyaka Sururu Mboro explain the district's colonial street names and their own life stories and the struggle against colonialism. Bakri Maslmani is a Syrian musician who studied Arabian classical music. After more than ten years in Germany, he made his ...

Krai

Krai

2021 | 123 min | Documentary

The Russian director Aleksey Lapin's approach is poetic and rhapsodic. The film is structured around a fake casting process for a historical film that will be shot in the village. This premise allows Lapin to interact with the villagers, who generously share their stories and desires with the camera. The film alternates between observed scenes, conversations, and poetic interludes. Lapin's gaze is loving and gentle, but also ironic and satirical, highlighting the quirky and magical aspects of village ...

Die Blutritter

Die Blutritter

2004 | 86 min | Documentary

The film accompanies protagonists and observers of the procession with up to 3.000 riders and 30.000 pilgrims. Catholics from all over Upper Swabia actively participate in this procession. Among others, the film shows a country butcher and his family, a pair of beekeepers, a practicing Indian friend from Waldburg, the customs researcher and museum founder Jürgen Hohl, a monastery brother and the abbot of Weingarten monastery. With ironic nuances, Wolfsperger creates a multi-faceted picture of society ...

The Queen's Courtyard

The Queen's Courtyard

2006 | 80 min | Documentary

Eva Heldmann's documentary THE QUEENS COURTYARD centers around Princess Nnana, the great-granddaughter of King Bathoen I, who is considered one of Botswana's visionary founders of the 19th century. After the death of her brother Prince Seatla, a funeral ceremony offers intimate insights into their way of life. The villagers are busy with the preparations, cows are slaughtered, state ministers offer condolences and the president of the country flies in by helicopter. "An absorbing and fascinating ...

The Demon Disease

The Demon Disease

2018 | 82 min | Documentary

In West Africa, traditional society has no space for people with mental illness and epilepsy. Demons are seen as cause for their diseases which are wrongly considered contagious. They live on the outskirts of the villages, in prayer centers, or wander around unnoticed, often chained or beaten. Pastor Tankpari Guitanga has decided to help these people and has founded a local aid organization, whose revolutionary work is still just starting. The Demon Disease shows first hand the situation of those ...

The Postman's White Nights

The Postman's White Nights

2014 | 97 min | Drama

Gentle vignettes from a remote northern Russian village on the shores of Lake Kenozero tell the story of its postman, who is the village's only lifeline to the outside world. In the shadow of the nearby spaceport, the villagers live off their pensions and become addicted to vodka under the yoke of the mayoress. When the postman Aleksey's outboard motor is stolen, the village is cut off from the outside world. Director Andrei Konchalovsky, with a cast of mostly amateur actors, illustrates the divide ...

MansFeld

MansFeld

2013 | 98 min | Documentary

Tom, Sebastian and Paul are children from very different families. They live in a small village in Mansfelder Land, an area marked by the decline of mining. However, an archaic custom has remained over the centuries and the three boys play a crucial role in it. For director Mario Schneider, MANSFELD, after HELBRA, and HEINZ UND FRED, represents the conclusion of his documentary trilogy about life in Mansfelder Land on the eastern edge of the Harz Mountains. "What distinguishes the film is the closeness ...

Alimamy

Alimamy

2020 | 40 min | Documentary

Alimamy and his family have lived for generations in a small village with about 150 inhabitants that has also had its own school for a few years. Like most people in Sierra Leone, he lives from agriculture. He grows cassava which he processes and sells as so-called Garie flour. He is very proud of his "Kasseh Garie." "With this film, we have tried to break with the usual images of Africa and offer personal insights into the lives of the generation doing the hard work of social and political change ...

We Are the Tide

We Are the Tide

2016 | 84 min | Independent

An ocean without water, eternal low tide. As the water disappeared, so did the children of the village. Sebastian Hilger's directorial debut WE ARE THE TIDE is a sci-fi drama exploring notions of proximity and distance. The tide went out, and from that time on, it stayed out. For no apparent reason, just so. Since then, this anomaly creates discomfort, like a curse on the environment. Jana and Micha, two young physicists, set out to discover what's behind the mysterious phenomenon. Once in Windholm, ...

Aftermath

Aftermath

2016 | 40 min | Drama

Germany 1916. Misery, decay, ruins are everywhere. In this desolation two outsiders start a timid friendship which is abruptly changed when the war reaches the small village. The First World War is in full swing and Marga is fighting for survival. Her husband Otto disappeared in the war, she keeps herself alive by stealing potatoes and selling moonshine. Her determination and assertiveness soon make her an outcast in her own village. But twelve-year-old Hans is fascinated by Marga. A misfortune ...