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- What do the Shroud of Turin, Elvis's Graceland, and a flag flown barely a moment over the U.S. Capitol have in common. Mana - that sacred, spiritual power thought to reside in a person, place or thing. Belief is not just religion, say filmmakers Friedman and Manley. It drives the stock market; it determines how we encapsulate history and our personal memories. It underlies racism and war... A trip around the amazing world of power objects, from the sacred to the absurd.
- Chimène has everything working in her favor except her nickname Pim-Pim Tché which translates into my little bitch in the local tongue. A virtuoso when it comes to emotional blackmail, she has to juggle highly unappealing jobs to ensure that there is food on the table and money for her parents. Will she be able to break the cycle?
- In Ouidah, Benin, the district "The Pantheon of Joy". At 12 years old, fatherless, one's eyes widen before the villa of a Big Brother who seems to have conquered Europe. To quench one's hunger, to sing, to ask for alms. And dreaming...
- A family in West Africa tells the story of how an ancestor discovered European explorers in 1548 - to a European film crew. But do all the claims about the historic event bear a closer look? And is the filmmaker's white gaze to be trusted.
- Onuora Abuah travels to his boyhood homes of the Republic of Benin and Togo, to learn more about powerful pre-colonial kingdom of Danhomé (Dahomey) and the Vodun spiritual system which was practiced by the region's people.
- David attends a voodoo festival in Benin, visits an infamous area of Johannesburg and speaks with white South African separatists.