Great African films. Vol. 1 [videorecording].
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: DV92670 | ArtMattan ProductionsLanguage: Songhai, Bambara Summary language: English Original language: Songhai, Bambara Series: Great African filmsPublication details: New York, NY : ArtMattan Productions ; [Chicago, Ill.] : Distributed by Facets Video, [2007?]Description: 2 videodiscs (177 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 1565806441
- 9781565806443
- Foreign films -- Burkina Faso
- Foreign films -- Mali
- Mothers -- Mali -- Drama
- Muslim families -- Burkina Faso -- Ouagadougou -- Drama
- Muslims -- Burkina Faso -- Ouagadougou -- Drama
- Songhai (African people) -- Mali -- Drama
- Mali -- Drama
- Mali -- Social conditions -- Drama
- Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) -- Drama
- Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) -- Social conditions -- Drama
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Adult DVD
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Main Library | DVD | WORLD Great Af | Available | 33111005702366 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Includes Haramuya (a fascinating glimpse of the capital of Burkina Faso, where a modern city is surrounded by a shanty town) and Faraw: Mother of the Dunes (a mother of three struggles to support her family while her husband is wrongfully imprisoned).
Special features: filmmaker bio (Ascofare); director's statement (on Haramuya, by Toure).
Cast for Faraw!: Aminata Ousmane, Safiatou Mahamane, Balla Moussa Keita, Oumar M'Barek, Hamel M'Barek.
Cast for Haramuya: Abdoulaye Kaba, Abdoulaye Komboudri, Ali Malagouin, Sidiki Sanogo, Ramata N'Diaye Tall.
Faraw!: Filmed in Gao, Mali and Morocco.
Haramuya: Filmed in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
Faraw!: An impoverished Songhai mother struggles to provide for her family in northeastern Mali.
Haramuya: The patriarch of a Muslim family living in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso struggles to reconcile his traditional beliefs with his sons' thoroughly modern lifestyles.
DVD.
Faraw!: In Songhoi with English subtitles.
Haramuya: In Bambara with English subtitles.