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DJELIYA, MEMORY OF MANDING

By Boubacar SANGARÉ

LES CINEMAS DU MONDE - LA FABRIQUE CINEMA DE L’INSTITUT FRANÇAIS - as PROMO

Documentary - Development 2022

Sékou, a young griot, guardian of memory, embarks on an initiatory road movie on the roads of the legendary Mandingo empire, in a West Africa shaken by modernity, in search of its common memory.

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- BURKINA FASO
- Director(s)
- Boubacar SANGARÉ
- Producer(s)
- Mamounata NIKIÉMA (Pilumpiku Productions)
- Synopsis
- 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. The only one of his siblings to take an interest 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 Mandingo Empire. Despite his doubts and the many obstacles of a sometimes chaotic present, he crosses paths with the greatest griots of the region or with simple individuals in contact with daily life. His initiatory journey becomes a poetic portrait of a West Africa in turmoil, in search of its common memory.