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DVD Anissoroma

a film by Christian von der Heyden 52'

In 1978, I travelled for the first time in West Africa. More than a quarter of century later, I’m back there,....

looking for the friends met at that time and especially looking for Dade, this wise man living at the end of Sahel. Now he is blind, and he welcome me as a son. We talk about Chekene, one of his sons, lost in Paris. He asks me to find him … Then the film, in Paris and back again in Mali, try to find this lost son, until… This film is a story inside an African family and in two worlds : one in Africa with its traditions and hopes, the other one in Europe with its dreams and disappointments.

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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

 

 
 

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