Med Hondo

Med Hondo – Rebel African Film-maker (2022)

The story of Mohamed "Med" Hondo, from his humble beginnings in Mauritania, to smuggling himself on board a ship to France, to finding recognition as a modern African cinema director and actor. ...

Asterix and the Vikings (2006)

Asterix and Obelix have been given a tough mission: Transform the chief's lazy nephew Justforkix into a warrior. When the Vikings abduct him and bring him back to their homeland, Asterix and Obelix must travel to Norway to rescue Justforkix. ...

Incontrôlable (2006)

Georges, one morning, became uncontrollable despite himself. Something that has the donkey's voice in Shrek, can control his body. ...

Antilles sur Seine (2000)

Corruption threatens to move into a heretofore idyllic village in this comedy-drama. Hector St. Rose is the mayor of a seaside community in the Antilles Islands, a French-controlled territory in the West Indies. Hector has long been determined not to sacri ...

The Gods Must Be Daring (1997)

A priceless statuette "Dancing God" is transfered from Africa to France. Scoundrels of all stripes are dreaming of steeling it. The most clever of them are trying to replace the original with the copy. Chases, adventures, breathtaking stunts, shootouts - l ...

L'Année des Guignols - J'y arrive pas (1997)

1871 (1990)

A young actress becomes politically aware within the Paris Commune of 1871. ...

Ouaga (1988)

The Making of West Indies (1979)

Taken during the filming of "West Indies," this film shows the making of the monumental set in the middle of the former Citroën factory, as well as backstage activity and rehearsals on the set. ...

Safrana or Freedom of Speech (1978)

Four young African workers attempt to break the spell of their poverty-stricken lives in Paris by looking to small farmers on the Gold Coast for information adaptable to their own country. ...

The Spiral (1976)

Documentary on the events provoked by the systematic attack of imperialism on the Popular Unity government in Chile, presided by Salvador Allende. ...

The Ambassadors (1975)

"Each of you is an ambassador, and we are sure that each of you will be the best ambassador of our country." This is how the film begins; a speech to emigrant workers for France. Salah left his three sisters and his mother to become an ambassador, going to ...

A Walk with Love and Death (1969)

During France's Hundred Years' War, a Parisian student seeks refuge by the sea and falls in love with an aristocrat. As they find shelter in a monastery, their romance is overshadowed by the ongoing conflict between peasants and noblemen. ...

Zita (1968)

Because "Tante Zita" main theme is death: a twenty-year old girl, Annie (Shimkus) lives with her mother and her aunt (both played by first-class actresses Suzanne Flon and Katina Paxinou). The auntie is dying, and for the first time in her life, Annie has ...

Shock Troops (1967)

A French resistance group free twelve soldiers from a German prison camp, but apparently there's an additional detainee among them suspected of being an enemy spy. ...

Masculin Féminin (1966)

Paul, a young idealist trying to figure out what he wants to do with his life, takes a job interviewing people for a marketing research firm. He moves in with aspiring pop singer Madeleine. Paul, however, is disillusioned by the growing commercialism in so ...

Môl (1966)

A young fisherman dreams of motorizing his boat to make his work easier. His dream becomes reality, thanks to his courage and his determination but causes conflict between traditional values and the modern notion of progress. ...

La Tragédie du Roi Christophe (1965)

Les verts pâturages (1964)

A French TV movie directed by Jean-Christophe Averty , broadcast on December 24, 1964 . The Old Testament set in Louisiana with an all black cast. ...

Fatima, the Algerian Woman of Dakar (2004)

In the aftermath of the Algerian War, a young Algerian woman reaches a strange reconciliation with the Senegalese officer who raped and impregnated her. ...

Watani: A World Without Evil (1998)

Two men of different backgrounds lose their respective jobs, setting off a series of events that brings them together in tragic circumstances. ...

Black Light (1994)

When a man's best friend is shot in cold blood by two corrupt policemen, he must track down the only eyewitnesses, who have deported to Mali. ...

Sarraounia (1986)

On 2 January 1899, starting from the French Sudan, a French column under the command of the captains Voulet and Chanoine is sent against the black Sultan Rabah in what is now the Cameroon. Those captains and their African mercenary troops destroy and kill ...

Hunger Of The World (1981)

A documentary that critiques the neo-colonial destruction of indigenous African agriculture and economies, resulting in mass starvation. ...

West Indies (1979)

Aboard a giant slave ship in an abandoned Citroën factory, the history of the West Indies is traced through several centuries of French oppression. The ship becomes a stage for the people to tell stories via song and dance—from their enslavement to thei ...

Polisario, a people in arms (1979)

This film is a testimony. These are the images and sounds recorded throughout the area of ​​struggle of the Saharawi people and they testify to their will to live free at home while placing the "Sahroui problem" in a real context. Ex-Spanish colony w ...

We shall have the whole of death to sleep (1977)

Documentary filmed over a period of four months, from 25 December 1975 to 5 March 1976, in the area of the former Spanish Sahara claimed by the people who lived there, the Saharawis, a people now mobilised and in arms (the Polisario Front) against Morocco ...

The Black Wogs, Your Neighbors (1974)

A lucid, sincere and intricate political film, it demonstrates how French neocolonialism exploits migrant labor and exerts a cultural imperialism over their minds. ...

Soleil O (1973)

An educated native of Mauritania tries to find work in Paris but encounters difficulty because of his race. ...

My Neighbours (1971)

African migrants in Paris talk about everyday life and racism on the labour and housing markets. The chanson from which the film takes its title sings of misery on people's own doorstep. Hondo then switches to another mode to continue his analysis of socia ...

Ballade aux sources (1965)

BALLADE AUX SOURCES, Med Hondo's first film, is a documentary about the journey of an African emigrant through his native land shortly after the independence of North Africa. This film allows us to glimpse the themes that are dear to Med Hondo: pan-Africa ...