Emile Abossolo M'bo

Winner - Cannes Film Festival. A former swimming champion in Chad is desperate when his son is forced to fight in the civil war.

In this blazingly feminist masterwork of Afrofuturism, Cameroonian iconoclast Jean-Pierre Bekolo places fearless sex workers at the vanguard of a revolution. Coating its social commentary in stylish genre thrills, The Bloodiest unmasks corrupt politicians as the real vampires hiding in plain sight.

When his brother runs away to serve in the army during World War I, a young boy stows away on a ship to Europe in an effort to locate him.