Khalifa and Fanta, two children from a deprived suburb of Bamako, are expelled from school because they do not have the means to buy the necessary supplies. Here they are forced to collect garbage to try to finance their education. Exhausted by their work, children wear a look of mischievous replicas and humorous on the Malian changing society.Read More »
AllMovie Synopsis:
This film, directed by Malian director Cheick Oumar Sissoku confronts the patriarchal traditions of Mali, including the controversial issue of female circumcision. A recent widow, Nanyuma feels liberated from the cruel treatment of her late husband but is ordered by the village chief to marry her husband’s equally oafish brother. She leaves the village and hides with her niece Fili but is eventually forced to return. Although her resistance to her culture’s rigid traditions stirs her people to a higher level of awareness of freedom and social independence, Nanyuma realizes that her only chance at claiming her own freedom will be by leaving her community. The film’s satiric approach is modeled after a theatrical tradition native to Mali.Read More »