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Great African Films - Vol. 2 |
USA |
GREAT AFRICAN FILMS, VOLUME 2: Tasuma / Sia, the
Dream of the Python -
The second installment in this series of award-winning
films from Africa includes Kollo Sanou's Tasuma, the Fighter (2003, 90 minutes, French
and Jula with English subtitles), a comic look at the impact of French colonialism
on Africa; Retired from the French army, Burkinabe soldier Sogo Sanou waits patiently
for his pension, which he plans to use to build a grain mill for the women of
his village - Next is Dani Kouyate's Sia, the Dream of the Python (2001,
96 minutes, Bambara with English subtitles), a modern adaptation of a seventh-century
African legend: A poor village decides it must make a human sacrifice to a mystical
snake god to guarantee a better future; Sia, the most beautiful woman in the
village, is chosen for the ritual, but she runs away in revolt - 186 minutes. |
$39.95 $12.99 |
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Great African Films - Vol. 1 |
Burkina Faso & Mali |
GREAT AFRICAN FILMS - VOL 1 : Haramuya & Faraw! Mother of the Dunes - Two films are included in the package, making for an entertaining and edifying double feature experience: Drissa Toure’s Haramuya (1995) is a sprawling dramatic comedy about several generations of a traditional Muslim family scraping up against various temptations (crime, movies, drugs, music) of modernity in the city of Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, and Abbdoulaye Ascofare’s Faraw: Mother of the Dunes (1997), from Mali is about a mother of three who struggles to support her family while saving her daughter from becoming the concubine-maid of a French colonialist. |
$39.95 $12.99 |
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