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TABASKI

By Laurence ATTALI

AUTOPRODUCTION & LES FILMS MAME YANDÉ - as PROD

Art - Culture - Completed 2019

Dakar, a few days before the feast of Tabaski, a painter is shut away in his
studio, working on the theme of the ritual sacrifice of the ram. Sketches are
hung on clotheslines to dry. The red paint drips from the drawings like fresh
blood. An inscription on the wall: "Tabaski, who's next?". Three characters
and a sheep revolve around him and reconnect him with reality.

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& Awards

Rotterdam IFF 2020

Voices Voices short award

- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- Art - Culture
- Countries
- SENEGAL, FRANCE
- Languages
- WOLOF, FRENCH, ENGLISH
- Duration
- 26 mn
- Director(s)
- Laurence ATTALI
- Writer(s)
- Laurence ATTALI
- Cast
- Camara GUEYE
- ISAN
- 0000-0004-EAF3-0000-X-0000-0000-C
- Producer(s)
- Ousmane William MBAYE (Les Films Mame Yandé)
- Synopsis
- NOTE
  This hybrid movie, blending fiction, art and politics, is freely inspired by the
  work of the painter Iba Ndiaye "The Tabaski round, who’s next?" painting
  in the 1970s. A sort of allegory in which the sheep is presented as the
  symbol of all victims. Indeed, Ndiaye was not thinking directly about the
  sacrifice of sheep for Tabaski in Senegal, but rather of the series of political
  assassinations at the time in post-colonial Africa and segregationist countries.
  "Painting is remembering," he said.

TABASKI

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