| Description |
1 online resource (68 min.) |
| Summary |
Wend Kuuni is a landmark in African filmmakers' attempts to "return to the sources" of their culture, to recover a "usable" African past to solve the problems of the African present. Filmmaker Gaston Kaboré adapts the measured rhythms of traditional African storytelling to create an authentically African cinematic language. He retells an ancient fable about a mute, memoryless orphan, driven from his homeland, who is renamed Wend Kuuni ("God's Gift") by the grateful village which adopts him. Kaboré uses this simple tale to demonstrate that traditional Mossi values can still provide answers to many problems besetting modern Africa, fractured by rural dislocation, refugees, and political conflict |
| Notes |
Title from resource description page (viewed December 01, 2017) |
| Credits |
Directed by Gaston Kabore |
| Performer |
Serge Yanogo, Rosine Yanogo, Joseph Nikiema, Colette Kabore, Simone Tapsoba |
| Notes |
In Moré with English subtitles |
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Won 1985 César Awards, César, Best French Language Film |
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Won 1986 Fribourg International Film Festival, Distribution Help Award |
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Nominated 1982 Nantes Three Continents Festival, Golden Montgolfiere |
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Village communities -- Africa -- Drama
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Children -- Drama
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Orphans -- Drama
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Mutism -- Drama
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Children
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Mutism
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Orphans
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Village communities
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Africa
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| Genre/Form |
Streaming video
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Drama
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Feature films
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Feature films.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Kaboré, Gaston, 1951- director.
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Direction du Cinéma, production company
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California Newsreel (Firm), distributor.
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