Focus Africa. Conteporary documentary in Burkina Faso
BOURGOU
Rédo Porgo / 49´ / 2001 / Burkina Faso / BETACAM
''Bourgou'' is a creative documentary on the universe of initiation ceremonies in traditional Moaga society. Circumcision for initiation is a rite of passage that is obligatory for the adolescent joining the group of adults. It is a physical and civic education and for military service.
This rite is a sacramental celebration of life or "death". In initiation, the child learns to "die" so as to find his life again. It is here that he learns to forge his own personality through assuming consciousness imposed by the laws of the community. The young boy then lives in traditional asceticism which is a test of the man regarding physical and moral strength.
DIRECTION: Rédo Porgo - SCRIPT: Rédo Porgo
RIGHT OF MEMORY
Kollo Daniel Sanou, Pierre Rouamba / 54´ / 2006 / Burkina Faso / DVCAM
The old African ex-combatants, once known as the ''Tirailleurs sénégalais'', once they were demobilized from the French colonial army after the campaigns of 1914-1918 and 1939-1945, in Indochina, from Algeria and other colonial campaigns have quite simply been forgotten. Forgotten in the recognition of their rights and their merits. These forgotten men of history still remember and claim their dues from France and from history.
DIRECTION: Kollo Daniel Sanou, Pierre Rouamba - SCRIPT: Kollo Daniel Sanou, Pierre Rouamba
Nissi Joanny Traoré / 108´ / 2005 / Burkina Faso / DVCAM
The film is intended to be informative and to raise awareness of national and international public opinion about the grave consequences of the pillage and the traffic of cultural goods from Burkina Faso and elsewhere. It is also a matter of participating in safeguarding and promoting material and immaterial heritage, through the mobilization of the agents concerned.
DIRECTION: Nissi Joanny Traoré - SCRIPT: Nissi Joanny Traoré
Dani Kouyaté / 54´ / 2005 / Burkina Faso / DVCAM
The word is given to the celebrated man from the history of Burkina Faso, the teacher Joseph Ki-Zerbo.
DIRECTION: Dani Kouyaté - SCRIPT: Dani Kouyaté
Fanta Régina Nacro / 42´ / 2002 / Burkina Faso / VHS
In West Africa, the drama of knowing that one is HIV Positive is indescribable. There are many people who are rejected, driven from their families or hidden from the eyes of the neighbours. Therefore in Mali, the Ivory Coast and in Burkina Faso, those people with the AIDS virus live positively with themselves and with others. Because when one is infected with the AIDS virus, life goes on, love, the desire for a child, sexuality too. The HIV-positives, Modibo Kane and his wife Aissata Sacko lead a happy and productive life in Bamako.
DIRECTION: Fanta Régina Nacro - SCRIPT: Fanta Régina Nacro
Yacouba Traoré / 54´ / 2005 / Burkina Faso / DVCAM
The making of the film ''Moolaadé'' by the Senegalese film-maker, Ousmane Sembène, dealing with female circumcision.
DIRECTION: Yacouba Traoré - SCRIPT: Yacouba Traoré