Country:Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)

Director:Roger Gnoan M’Bala

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. This film established the stark and powerful style of M’Bala who would quickly follow up with a cycle of films noted for their sharp and unsparing perspective.