Temporary Registration A Girl for Souleymane

Themes of displacement and self-discovery come to the fore in these two films about Africans in France. Temporary Registration follows Mathias, a young French-Guinean who travels from France to find his biological father only to be distracted by the drifters he takes up with. (Gahite Fofana, 2001, Guinea; 78 mins.)

In A Girl for Souleymane, a young Senegalese man tries to overcome solitude and poverty as he makes a new life for himself in Paris. (Dyana Gaye, 2000, Senegal; 24 mins.)