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Loose portrait of João Francisco dos Santos, also known as Madame Satã, a sometime chef, transvestite, lover, father, hero and convict from Rio de Janeiro.

Borlette, a very popular lottery in Haiti, is based on dreams. There is no such thing as chance, because the winning results of the drawing come from the lottery player's dreams, and dreams are messages sent from the spirit world.

This documentary shows a few days in the life of various members of Abdijan, Ivory Coast's gay and transgendered community. We get to meet a variety of woubis, yossis, etc. The hero/heroine of the film is a statuesque young man named Barbara who is organizing the annual year-end party of the Ivory Coast Tranvestite Association, to be held December 27, 1997.

Set to the soundtrack of Papa Wemba's extraordinary music, this outrageous, funny and eye-opening film depicts the underground world of a flamboyant African cult.

In a South African city, a West African street vendor befriends a homeless waif but encounters hostility and mistrust from the neighborhood toughs.

Lowriding in Tucson, Arizona, as seen by a French filmmaker, Marianne Dissard. A portrait of the Camaradas Lowrider Bike Club members from South Tucson.

Documentary filmed in Rio de Janeiro, in 1996, portraying a surf project as a means of resistance against racism and the precarious life of the young people of the slums of Cantagalo and Rocinha.

Cuban leader, revolutionary and politician Fidel Castro in conversations with Ignacio Ramonet, editor-in-chief of French weekly magazine Le Monde Diplomatique.

South Africa's white farmers emigrate to Niassa in North Mozambique to escape the rise of a democratic government in their own country.

Zackie Achmat is an HIV+ South African activist campaigning to make AIDS medications more widely available. As one aspect of his campaign the HIV-positive Achmat refuses to take the medications until they become available to everyone.

When Marie met Guitou, she discovered a new way of life: surfing. Since then, life with her surfer has been one long holiday. They are part of the "surf family" that "Waiting for the Waves" wryly observes: Robbie Page, Vincent, Jean-Marc.

After the crisis, after the emergency, refugees are abandoned to their fate. Bernard Debord met Burundians who have been kept in camps in Tanzania for ten years. Testimonies of modern-day castaways, half a million of them stranded in huts.

Shot in early 2004 during the commemoration of the bicentennial of Haiti, this film offers a unique light on the last days to the presidency of Aristide, former priest of the poor became apprentice dictator. It is a reflection on the history of the first black republic in the world, a nation shared between the memory of its glorious revolution and the tragic litany of despots that have overwhelmed it since its independence.

Portrait of a mother from the Istanbul suburbs who wrote a book in secret to testify about the poverty and indigence of the slums where she lives with her family.

Digital video diary of a filmmaker who moved from New York to Marseille. He films his new surroundings and tries to feel at home there. He doesn't do badly, but the gay man in him seems to have more issues with it so he films the gay life.

In 1935, the director's grandfather, Émile Perras, left France to settle in Dakar, Sénégal, a French colony at the time. Together with his family, he opened the "La Croix du Sud" hostel, that soon became a mythical place in Western Africa.

An editing of Tchala, l'argent des rêves (2003) especially made for Arte's Thema - Arte (1992). "Borlette" is a popular form of private lottery in Haiti, in which people are betting on numbers associated with their own dreams.

A look at the problem of reconciliation in a post-genocidal society as killers are returned to their homes to live and work alongside the survivors of their genocide.