Directing

Idrissou Mora Kpai

Beninese filmmaker.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

No artwork available
6.3

Si-Gueriki is the story of the confrontation of a young man with his history, his roots and culture.

Si-Gueriki, Queen Mother

2002

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5.6

Documentary on the lives and hopes of the people living in Arlit, Niger and working in its uranium mine.

Arlit: The Second Paris

2008

No artwork available
5.6

Documentary on the lives and hopes of the people living in Arlit, Niger and working in its uranium mine.

Arlit: The Second Paris

2008

America Street poster
NR

In downtown Charleston, South Carolina, black owned convenient stores like Joe's have almost disappeared. Joe is fighting to keep his but he knows that its survival depends on the survival of his local community.

America Street

2019

America Street poster
NR

In downtown Charleston, South Carolina, black owned convenient stores like Joe's have almost disappeared. Joe is fighting to keep his but he knows that its survival depends on the survival of his local community.

America Street

2019

America Street poster
NR

In downtown Charleston, South Carolina, black owned convenient stores like Joe's have almost disappeared. Joe is fighting to keep his but he knows that its survival depends on the survival of his local community.

America Street

2019

Indochina, Traces of a Mother poster
NR

Indochina: Through the story of Christophe, a 58 year old Afro-Vietnamese man, the film tells the story of African colonial soldiers fighting for the French in Indochina.

Indochina, Traces of a Mother

2011

Indochina, Traces of a Mother poster
NR

Indochina: Through the story of Christophe, a 58 year old Afro-Vietnamese man, the film tells the story of African colonial soldiers fighting for the French in Indochina.

Indochina, Traces of a Mother

2011

Border life poster
NR

Border Life, shot in a border town between Benin and Nigeria, is a contemplation of space and movement. Of life pulsing through a locality set up to divide. Of unstoppable mobility where mobility is circumscribed and controlled. The camera doesn't fix things in place; it wanders. From checkpoint to city streets thronging with cars hiding smuggled goods from Italy and Thailand, from ambulant bankers to fishermen turned traffickers, a never-ending rush. A never-ending hustle. No time to stop for long conversations. No conventional characters but lives in motion captured for a fragment of a second. This essay film turns into an invitation to experience the daily life of those who live on and from the border, in fragments, in rhythms, in relentless flux.

Border life

2026

Border life poster
NR

Border Life, shot in a border town between Benin and Nigeria, is a contemplation of space and movement. Of life pulsing through a locality set up to divide. Of unstoppable mobility where mobility is circumscribed and controlled. The camera doesn't fix things in place; it wanders. From checkpoint to city streets thronging with cars hiding smuggled goods from Italy and Thailand, from ambulant bankers to fishermen turned traffickers, a never-ending rush. A never-ending hustle. No time to stop for long conversations. No conventional characters but lives in motion captured for a fragment of a second. This essay film turns into an invitation to experience the daily life of those who live on and from the border, in fragments, in rhythms, in relentless flux.

Border life

2026