Short film
Aïda Souka
Synopsis
In Dakar, Kiné, a young woman with a Parisian look, one of those known as disquettes, decides to learn what she does not yet know of the art of pleasing. She goes to Aïda Souka, a drianké, a renowned expert in seduction, who opens before her the arsenal of Dakar women: the perfumes, the jewellery, the tricks and artifices that Senegalese women use to captivate men. The film follows this lesson from one woman to another, between demonstration and storytelling.
Context
The film was co-directed with David Achkar. Sixteen minutes on sixteen-millimetre film, carried by Ngoné Diop, with music by Vieux Mac Faye and images by Pierre-Olivier Larrieu, it is spoken in Wolof and French. The subject plays on two Dakar words, the disquette, a young girl in the European fashion, and the drianké, a mature and experienced woman: the whole journey consists in passing from one to the other. It was produced by Sésame Productions and Les Films Kaany, with the help of the Francophonie, and presented at the Pan-African festival the following year.
Who it is for
Sixteen minutes with subtitles, with no difficulty of access. It is worth knowing that the drianké designates in Senegal an accomplished woman whose social skill is prized.
Prizes and reception
Selected at the Ouagadougou festival in 1993; it still circulates through the catalogue of the Institut français's Cinémathèque Afrique.