Synopsis:
In the village of Omoye in Gabon’s Haut-Ogooué province, Petit Papa is a young man known for his laziness and desire for easy living. One morning, as he complains about having to work, a mysterious and beautiful woman appears before him — unknowingly, he has been possessed by a demon that travels the world seeking those consumed by envy and idleness. Suddenly blessed with cars, money and women, Petit Papa becomes the envy of his community. But the price his new mistress El Diablo demands will mark the beginning of his descent into hell.

Film gabonais - L'amour du diable - Dolce_Gaboma (352p).mp4

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Runtime: 	1 h 51 min
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https://nitro.download/view/863121D11054DD4/Film_gabonais_-_L’amour_du_diable_-_Dolce_Gaboma_(352p).mp4

https://rapidgator.net/file/169a39fc2960392fcbe54a8b9ef7d02f/Film_gabonais_-_L’amour_du_diable_-_Dolce_Gaboma_(352p).mp4

Language(s):French
Subtitles:None

Many thanks to @Jor for this copy.

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Plot Synopsis:
Dôlè offers a Gabonese perspective on the global crisis facing today’s youth. This film reveals that, whether in Libreville or in our own inner cities and suburbs the underlying causes of youthful disaffection can be remarkably similar.
Dôlè provides one of the most affectionate and affecting portraits of African youth poised precariously on the cusp of modernity. It has already been widely compared to François Truffaut’s iconic coming of age film – a kind of ‘Le quatre cents coups’ in Gabon.

FESPACO: 2001 – Won Best Screenplay
Carthage Film Festival 2000 – Won – Tanit d’or (Golden Tanit) – Best Film
Milan African Film Festival: 2001 Won Award of the Diocese of Milan
Cannes 2000: Nomination – Cannes Junior

1.37GB | 1h 16m | 704×400 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/AD4568E38123988/Dole_(2000).avi
https://nitro.download/view/F020F6E98438920/Dole_English.srt
https://nitro.download/view/1303C20D3A7A3B2/Dole_German.srt

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English,German

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Cameroonian filmmaker Bassek ba Kobhio provides a fascinating revisionist perspective on Albert Schweitzer, Noble Peace Prize winner and secular saint of the colonial era.

Like Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask, this film begins to rewrite the history of colonialism from the point of view of the colonized. Le Grand Blanc de Lambaréné is not, however, a facile exercise in iconoclasm but rather a deeply-felt lament for a missed opportunity, for a cross-cultural encounter between Africa and Europe which never happened.

Shot on the site of Schweitzer’s hospital in Gabon, Bassek ba Kobhio elicits psychologically complex portrayals from his actors as he did in his earlier California Newsreel release, Sango Malo. Behind Schweitzer’s impenetrable reserve, Ba Kobhio discovers a man blinded to the people around him by his own spiritual self-absorption and arrogance. For Schweitzer to see himself as a stern but loving father, he had to cast Africans as childlike primitives whom he could protect from the temptations of modernity. He even refused to install electrical generators or institute modern sanitation in his hospital’s wards. In the film, an African boy Schweitzer discouraged from becoming a doctor, returns with his degree and rebukes him: “The independence of the people has never been your concern. You only wanted to share their hell in the hope of reaching your heaven.”

The film reveals that the ultimate tragedy of colonialism may have been its refusal to see and value the colonized as autonomous, creative human beings. Schweitzer knew numerous European languages but never learned to speak the local tongue; he was an accomplished organist and Bach scholar who never evinced any interest in African music. Ba Kobhio represents the richness of Africa through Bissa, a beautiful concubine the local chief gives le Grand Blanc. Though clearly tempted, Schweitzer remains aloof; only at his death does he invite her to sleep in his bed rather than on a mat. The film’s epigraph, ironically, is a famous remark by Schweitzer himself: “All we can do is allow others to discover us, as we discover them.”

1.42GB | 1h 32min | 700×393 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/29258163C50DA85/The.Great.White.of.Lambarene.1995.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language:French
Subtitles:English hardsubbed

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