"In 1978, I travelled for the first time in West Africa. More than a quarter of century later, I’m going back there, trying to find the people who had a strong influence on the young man I was back then..."
"Many things have changed. I meet Dade again, a wise man living in the Sahel desert. He's been blind for ten years, and welcomes me as a son. We talk about Chekene, one of his sons who left for Paris and whom he hasn't heard from for a long time. He asks me to find him…"
This film is a story of an African family, in two worlds: one in Africa with its traditions and hopes, the other one in Europe with its dreams and disappointments.
PLEASE NOTE : WE HAVE AN ENGLISH SUBTITLED VERSION AVAILABLE.
Technical data :
duration
52 minutes
camera
Christian von der Heyden
sound
Christian von der Heyden
editing
Daniel Coche
music
Drahmane Koulibaly
translations
Safiatou Traoré, Irène Arthur
a coproduction
dora films / Cagifragilis
grants
Agence culturelle d'Alsace,
Drac, Ministère de la Culture
festivals
Ecrans du Réel Le Mans France 2007 / FIFAI La Réunion 2008/ Quintessence - Festival International du Film de Ouidah Bénin 2009 : price for best documentary film/ Fespaco 2009 out of competition
"Six years ago, my wife announced me that I was going to become a father. I took my camera and I filmed for the next nine months, toward offthefearwithin me."
Every year, in Munster, in the region of Alsace, a ball with a strange name takes place: the Widows' Ball. Disguised and masked, women are the ones who invite men to the dance.
Just like a note book full of words and pictures covering the years from 2000 to 2006, this film bears witness to groups of asylum seekers drifting through Strasbourg.
