Philippe Mory

The Cage

An African physician returns home after studying medicine in Paris. He marries and settles down to life in the bucolic splendor of his native land. When he has a confrontation with a white plantation owner, the white man sees red and casts a spell on the African doctor. Although he realizes the curse is an ancient tribal superstition, he still is plagued by the ghost of his late first wife. The black doctor and the white man are assimilated into cultures in which neither of them were born in this vexing jungle tale.

The Silence of the Forest

A film about the difficulty for even the most well-intentioned person to know and respect another culture. In this case, the problem is so acute that there is even heated debate over what to call that 'other.' The subtitles in the film use the familiar word 'pygmies,' a relatively pejorative European term; the Bantu or villagers' expression for the same group, Babingas, carries similar negative connotations. These highly specialized, tropical rainforest hunter-gatherers should perhaps be called by their own ethnonym, Aka, MoAka (sing.) and BaAka (pl.)

The Shadow of Liberty

Captain Ekumu has a lot on his mind: his son Ika is dying and he does not have the means to find treatment for him, which is driving his wife Ezéni to despair.

One Does Not Bury Sunday

The hero is a black man from Martinique who feels nostalgic for his island and is on his own in France. He falls in love with an au pair girl but has a love affair with a married woman, Mrs Courtalès. He kills the husband in self-defense. But eight months later, he is arrested by the Police. Philippe's fate depends on a child's birth. It will not be what he's expecting.

Les couilles de l'éléphant

La Rue des bouches peintes

An English governor in India, deceived by his wife, proposes to him either to accuse the lover of embezzlement, or to condemn her to end her days as a prostitute in the rue des Bouches Peintes. She chooses the second solution...

Le mystère Joséphine

The Tam Tams Are Silent

Abraham is a young sculptor who does not quite understand the changing world in which he lives. During a visit to the village, he falls for the youngest wife of his uncle. They form a relationship but are discovered and Abraham flees to the city.

Curse

Solange is convinced that her family is the victim of a curse that caused the death of her first two children. She tries to save the life of her last son Kumi, despite the reticence of her husband Guillaume, shared between the love of his family and the fear of his father Mounkal, a very powerful sorcerer with multiple mystical powers. While William, subject to the demands of his father Mounkal leads the child to his death, Solange goes to consult a healer who will reveal to him the heavy and morbid secret of William her husband.