• Vlad Dima

In the documentary film 'Abderrahmane Sissako, un cinéaste à l’Opéra,' the director is in complete control of his artistic vision.

• Scott Remer

Let’s talk about the role Western institutions can play in achieving climate justice in the Sahel.

• Alexander Hartwiger

Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s fiction rebukes the Orientalist images of the Muslim world that provided a rationale for the war on terror.

• Elemine Moustapha
• Francisco Freire

The so-called “peaceful transition” in Mauritania, from colonialism to political independence, isn’t unanimously understood as such inside the country, and it reflects older rivalries.

• Bentley Brown

Med Hondo (1936-2019) was Morgan Freeman and Eddie Murphy in French. His first film premiered at Cannes in 1970. And in 1979 he wrote a manifesto: “What is the cinema for us?”

• Ann McDougall

The future looks terrifying for many US-based exiles from Mauritania—facing deportation to Africa's modern "slave nation" under Trump's monstrous ICE.

• Devon Leger

A smallish woman from Mauritania, she rules the stage with a fiery intensity that only the most powerful divas can maintain.

• Arnaud Contreras

Cast members: "We want that film to enlighten our people’s situation, we, the real hostages of that crisis."

• Fatin Abbas

"Timbuktu," the first film by an African-born black filmmaker to be nominated for the best foreign language film Oscar, transcends the present.

• Sarah Burgess

The meticulous engagement by Noura Mint Seymali with the history of her country Mauritania, the current global music landscape, and her own personal journey as a musician.