Country/ies
Senegal
Production
Mariama Sylla Faye
Editor
Length
52
Original Language
Original language
Status
Completed
Completed in
2005
Eurodoc Participant
Eurodoc Producer
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Year participation
2004
Distribution
Aminta Ngom is mad. She knows it, and she is not at all ashamed of it. She sometimes carries her suffering through the streets of Dakar, she endures it between the courtyard walls of her family home, and she talks about it in front of the camera. Behind the camera, and sometimes also in front of it, the director Khady Sylla films distress: distress felt by both of them, not in an illusory sharing, but distress that is shown, contained, voiced or muted, side by side, like fragments of the broken mirror that we see, of which the filmmaker speaks. Portrait, self-portrait: of whom or what? Of illness, or urban wanderings, of madness, of two women, of a phantom Africa? This film openly addresses these questions.
Festivals & Awards
2018 Résistances (France) - Sélection "Fous à délier"
2015 Festival des cinémas d'Afrique du pays d'Apt (France)
2014 Festival des 3 continents (France)
2005 FID, Festival International du Documentaire (France) - Premier Prix
2015 Festival des cinémas d'Afrique du pays d'Apt (France)
2014 Festival des 3 continents (France)
2005 FID, Festival International du Documentaire (France) - Premier Prix
Production & financial support