Olivier Marbœuf

Listen to the Voices (2025)

Melrick is an unruly young boy who spends his summer in French Guiana at his grandmother's house to escape his turbulent daily life in Stains, France. At the end of his stay, he plays the drum to revive the memory of his late uncle, Lucas Diomar, who died ...

Nome (2024)

Guinea-Bissau, 1969. A violent war between the Portuguese colonial army and the guerrillas of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea. Nome leaves his village and joins the maquis. After years, he will return as a hero, but joy will soon give way ...

Meteoro (2023)

Everybody Calls Me Mike (2023)

Thibault, Isabelle and their son Jeremie board their sailboat Joshua to sail the world and live a new life. The Gulf of Aden is watched over by Somali pirates, and while stopping in Djibouti, the happy family meets Mike, a black they know nothing about but ...

The Wake (2022)

Night has fallen on a world on fire. Demonstrations, earthquakes, forest fires – fire is everywhere. The fires of struggles and pains, of rebirth and chaos. Men and women speak and despeak to honor the dead and save the living. ...

Apiyemiyekî? (2020)

Apiyemiyekî? addresses the genocide of the Waimiri-Atroari people in 1970s, when during the Brazilian dictatorship indigenous lands in the mid-west were invaded for the construction of the national road BR-174 and the installation of a mining company. Ill ...

Ouvertures (2019)

Reflecting on the legacy of Haitian revolutionary Toussaint L'Ouverture, "Ouvertures" follows a collective's process of translating Édouard Glissant's play Monsieur Toussaint from French to Creole. ...

The Green Vessel (2019)

"The Green Vessel" tells the journey and the story of an old man on a river. Like a storyteller, he shares with us a story: the tale of a scientist who discovers a contaminated river and tries to understand the sources of this problem. Accompanied by an ar ...

Cemetery (2019)

After a devastating earthquake, Nga, an old elephant and probably the last of its species, and Sanra, his mahout, are about to embark on a journey to find the mythical elephant's graveyard. The group of poachers following them will die one after the other ...

Amara (2019)

From Colorado, where he has chosen to live, Fouad Mennana begins to trace his late grandfather - Amara Mennana - an Algerian farmer expropriated from his land and deported to the prisons of French Guiana in 1926. ...

Labour Power Plant (2019)

A new production center, maybe set in an undetermined future. What is being produced here? We shall find out by following the given traces. Two pairs of hands trying to untangle themselves. A human sheep virtually cut into pieces. A warm welcome to the aut ...

Beyond the One (2017)

Set to a breath-like rhythm, Anna Marziano's Beyond the One is an essayistic exploration of love's various guises, considering different attempts at courtship, living together, and sustaining connections with people once they have died. ...

Koropa (2016)

In the dark night, off the Comoros archipelago, Patron learns how to become « Commandant ». Soon he will take his first clandestine passengers to Mayotte. ...

Foyer (2016)

A piece of blank white paper placed and pulsating before a camera's lens attracts a crowd of passers-by in Tunis, the simplicity of the conceit slowly opening up to a profound reflection on the nature of cinema itself (both its creation and its collective ...

Spectrographies (2015)

Meteoro (2023)

Ouvertures (2019)

Reflecting on the legacy of Haitian revolutionary Toussaint L'Ouverture, "Ouvertures" follows a collective's process of translating Édouard Glissant's play Monsieur Toussaint from French to Creole. ...