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Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
The Woman with a Knife
Country:Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
Director:Timite Bassori
Year:
1969
Duration:
90
Summary:
A young intellectual from Ivory Coast returns home. After a long period in Europe, he has to face up to the difficulties of readjusting to his society and a strong sexual inhibition.
On the Dune of Solitude
Country:Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
Director:Timite Bassori
Year:
1966
Duration:
32
Summary:
The film depicts the symbolic encounter of a man and a woman one night on the beach. The two will share dreams on the sand but with daylight comes disorientation and death.
Return to the Land of Souls
Country:Spain, Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
Director:Jordi Esteva
Year:
2009
Duration:
75
Summary:
(Spain/Ivory Coast, 2009, 75 min.) Many ancestral beliefs are struggling to survive in a hostile, fast-changing world. In southeast Ivory Coast, some Akan communities still make contact with the spirits.
Comian La Voie des Genies
Country:Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
Director:Mohammed Dazelor
Program:African Panorama
Year:
2008
Duration:
45
Summary:
About the Comians, the intermediaries between the world of spirits.
part of the traditional beliefs and customs of Eastern region of Ivory Coast,
David E. Simpson, Milking the Rhino (USA, 2008, 83 min.)
In Tanzania and Namibia locals preserve wildlife for profit but the conservationists have trouble convincing the herdsmen that in their new world even rhinos can be milked.
Adanggaman
Country:Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
Director:Roger Ngoan M’Bala
Year:
2000
Duration:
90
Summary:
In West Africa during the late 17th century, King Adanggaman leads a war against his neighboring tribes, ordering his soldiers to torch enemy villages, kill the elderly and capture the healthy tribesmen to sell to the European slave traders. Netting them like wild animals after burning their huts and pursuing them through the undergrowth as they try to escape he has them shackled cruelly and sold to the highest bidder at auctions. When his village falls prey to one of Adanggaman's attacks, Ossei manages to escape, but his family is murdered except for his captured mother.
In the Name of Christ
Country:Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
Director:Roger Gnoan M’Bala
Year:
1993
Duration:
82
Summary:
M’Bala’s challenging film directly confronts the need by people to be led by anyone willing to assume the role. The film may be dryly satirical air but actually confronts its subject in a coolly straightforward manner. In a small Ivorian village, lives a much-despised little swineherd. One day, after one drink too many, a childlike God comes to him in a vision and elects him to save his people. He becomes Magloire the first, cousin of Christ, and uses his eloquence to spark the imagination of his entourage and found a sect.
Djeli
Country:Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
Director:Fadika Kramo-Laancine
Year:
1981
Duration:
92
Summary:
This film represents one of the most typical facets of parallel worlds in African storytelling: that of the lines drawn between tribes and classes and the taboo of crossing them. Two Ivorian students, Fanta and Karamoko, are in love and talking about marriage. Both were born in the same village and their respective parents know each other well. Yet Karamoko Kouyate, the son of a griot (wandering poet and musician), cannot marry Fanta, the daughter of a direct descendent of the illustrious families of the Mandingo.
