Short film
Boxumaleen !! (L'an... fer)
Amet Diallo · 1991
Synopsis
Grand Batché commands a band of four street children who live in the outlying zones of Dakar, a kingdom they call L'Anfer City. Each zone has its rules and each day its priorities, the first of which is to escape the police. One day, Grand Batché falls ill, and his companions set off for the city centre to find what is needed to treat him. The day then goes by like the others.
Context
The film runs about thirty minutes, in Wolof, shot on thirty-five and sixteen millimetre; the cinematography is by Médoune N'Diaye and the music by Youssou N'Dour and Baba Maal. It was produced by Les Ateliers de l'Arche, with Ciré Sylva, Ass Ka and Abdourakhmane Camara as performers. The setting is the suburbs of the capital, renamed through a pun that the title preserves. It is its author's only film: Laurence Attali made it the starting point of the portrait she devoted to him in 1995.
Who it is for
Half an hour in Wolof. No plot to follow, only a day and four children; the print is rare and is hardly seen except in retrospectives.
Prizes and reception
Short film jury prize at the Ouagadougou festival in 1993, after the Afrique en création prize at Cannes in 1992.
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