The story centers on a devout Muslim, Faco, who tries to run his two-wife household in the traditional way. The trouble begins when his ambitious younger son, Kalifa lapses and gets involved with his older brother's hoodlum friends. Kalifa then gives them his money and soon loses his job. The city...
Do and Demba wish to become part of the modernisation process, and subsequently leave for the nearby city to make their fortune – a striking allegory of conflict of African rural tradition and western values.
This film tells the story of a 12-year-old boy who is looking for his father. It's been three years since the latter left for the USA and since then, he has severed ties with his family since he does not write and he does not call either. The young man is disturbed and he never stops wondering what...
In the first half of the 1990s, Drissa Touré was an auteur fast on the rise, with his first fiction feature, Laada (1991), celebrating its world premiere in a Cannes sidebar, from whence it went around the world, Rotterdam included. Touré's next narrative project, Haramuya (1995), was again...
