God's Will (Allah Tantou)

Human Rights Abuses in Africa

Old home movies, newsreels and a prison diary are interwoven to link personal and public history in this assessment of human rights abuses in Guinea-Conakry.

ALLAH TANTOU is the first African film to confront the immense personal and political costs of the widespread human rights abuses on the continent. It follows filmmaker David Achkar's search for his father, his father's search for himself inside a Guinean prison and Africa's search for a new beginning amid the disillusionment of the post-independence era. One of the most courageous and controversial films of recent years, Allah Tantou speaks in an unabashedly personal voice not often heard in African cinema.

Official Selection at the San Francisco International Film Festival.

"Wrenching as well as cathartic, it required a special kind of courage to make this film." - Philadelphia Inquirer

"Better than any African film before it, Allah Tantou brilliantly redefines the documentary genre." - Manthia Diawara, New York University