This screening is part the 2026 Francophone Short Films Festival in Harlem that will start at the Maysles Documentary Center on April 24, 2026 and end at the Lyçee français on April 29.
For more information visit www.francophoneshortfilms.com
Program 5, Tuesday, April 28, 6:00 pm, Maison Française de Columbia
Comme une spirale (Like a spiral), 2024, Lamia Chrab, 28’, Documentaire, Canada/Québec
A dialogue between Beirut and five women, migrant domestic workers, under the Kafala system. Expressing their belonging to a society in collapse, the women’s voices rise through the film’s grainy images to denounce their stolen freedom with an inalienable thirst for existence. Their memories dance in the rhythm of oppression. Caught within life’s spiral, they lift themselves up to not sink into oblivion.
Toubab, 2025, Marie-Sybille Loutan & Valentine Coral, 11’, Fiction, Switzerland.
Omar and Kevin, two young men from the projects decide to hold up a local grocery store. As they’re making their escape, they steal a car with a baby inside, causing a major disruption to their plans
Zolla, 2025, Victoria Neto, 29’, Fiction, France
Caught between her disillusioned student life and the pressures of being the eldest daughter, Zolla, a twenty-year-old Black woman of Congolese descent, desperately seeks independence. To achieve this, she must confront her mother, who refuses to be abandoned a second time…
Independance Tchatcha,2024. Alexis Zounguere-Sokambi aka Je dessine bien, 3’, Animation, Belgium
Through a series of rapid-fire sketches, *Indépendance Tchatcha* offers an immersion into the daily lives of people of African descent from all walks of life—whether within an African family with a polygamous past, in the offices of a major corporation lacking in “diversity,” or in a romantic relationship rooted in fetishization.
The tone blends satire, sarcasm, and social humor, driven by a constant desire to transform silent tragedies into comedic metaphors.
Cœur d’enfants, (Children’s hearts) 2024, Isabelle Kolkol, 9’, Fiction, Guinée
The family life of Loua TÖNWÔN, a 10-year-old girl.
Cairo street, 2025, Addellah Taia, 19’, Documentaire, Egypte.
"January 2007. I’m back in Cairo. For work. You changed your number, Omar. I have to find you. I love you… Abdellah."
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