Feature film
Diankha-bi
Mahama Johnson Traoré · 1968
Synopsis
Three young women from the same Senegalese family have each been brought up in a different way, and their intertwined stories lead them towards futures that do not resemble one another. Around them, a generation challenges what tradition expects of women, and many girls want to adopt ways that come from the West. The film follows these three destinies as so many answers to the same question, that of the place given to women between tradition and modernity.
Context
The filmmaker's first feature-length film, spoken in Wolof, it brings together Isseu Niang, Yves Diagne and Amy Diop; the cinematography is by Cheikh Dieng and Pap Thiam, the music by Bana and Soundioulou Sissokho. It was produced by Sunu Film with the support of the French Ministry of Cooperation. Its subject, the situation of women in Senegal, was that of the whole first part of his work: a second film continued it two years later. The Turin festival included it in a retrospective devoted to the birth of cinema in Africa.
Who it is for
A film of an hour and a half, in Wolof, about three women's destinies born under the same roof, with no particular difficulty.
Prizes and reception
Grand Prix at the Dinard festival; the first of its director's films on the condition of women.
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