Direction: Boubacar Sangaré
Company: PILUMPIKU PRODUCTION
DJELIYA, MEMORY OF MANDING
Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Senegal / Bambara, French
Sékou Timité has one ambition: to follow in his late father’s footsteps and become a “Djeli”, a griot, guardian of the oral memory in West Africa. Interested in the obsolete art of the griot, he leaves his family behind and sets off to confront the modern world on the roads of the legendary Manding.
Boubacar SANGARE – Boubacar Sangaré is a filmmaker and lawyer specialising in film and audiovisual law. He has perfected his filmmaking skills through internships at the Institut des Arts de Diffusion in Belgium and La Femis in France. From 2012 to 2015 he collaborated with the association Semfilms in the programming