4 Best Movies Set in or About Niger

4 Movies Set in or About Niger

Foreign-led films whose sustained setting or subject remains centered on Niger.

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   1. Jaguar

   1967

   In the 1950s, three young men from Niger set out on foot for the Gold Coast in search of work and adventure, narrating their own picaresque migrant journey. Jean Rouch's landmark improvised ethnographic film.

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   2. Cocorico Monsieur Poulet

   1974

   Three friends bounce across the Nigerien countryside in a battered van hoping to make their fortune selling chickens, in a freewheeling, largely improvised comic road movie. A playful collaboration with Jean Rouch.

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   3. Arlit: The Second Paris

   Arlit, deuxième Paris · 2005

   This documentary visits Arlit, the Nigerien desert town built around a French-run uranium mine, and the workers and dreamers whose lives — and health — are bound up with its dangerous riches. A revealing portrait.

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   4. Babatu

   Babatu, les trois conseils · 1976

   Set in the 19th century, this drama recreates the campaigns of Babatu, a warrior and slave-raider who swept across the lands of what is now Niger. Jean Rouch's ethnographic historical film.