Al Djanat
SYNOPSIS
After the death of her uncle, a dignitary Mandingo Islam, the director films her familycourtyard. A dispute over the estate has burst out between advocates of traditionallaw and proponents of official law, inherited from European colonization.Thecourtyard becomes the theater where the future of an emblematic family is playedout.
Premiere in Spain. With the presence of the director.
Why must you see it?
The conflict over an inheritance prompts the director to return to Burkina Faso at a time when the family fabric begins to implode due to tensions between opposing views of property. Upon her return, Aïcha Boro confronts the cultural conflicts that permeate her family and the country, but also grapples with the difficulty of coming back, changed, to a world that has itself changed during her absence. In the tension between different codes and lives, the film seeks a space to understand and renew the sense of belonging and identity.
Margot Mecca
Chloé Aïcha BORO
Chloé Aïcha BORO, a Franco-Burkinabé writer and film-maker, began her career as a newspaper journalist after studying modern literature. She then moved into documentary filmmaking with her acclaimed first feature, “Farafin ko”, which won awards at several festivals. Followed by a second feature: “France aurevoir, le nouveau commerce triangulaire”. Her third documentary, Le loup d’or de Balolé, won the Étalon d’or at Fespaco 2019, then the Trophée Francophone 2021. With her fourth feature, “Al Djanat”, she has so far won the special prize of the city of Ouagadougou and the Uemoa prize for feature-length documentaries at Fespaco 2023. “Al Djanat” will be presented in official competition at Vision du réel in Switzerland, and at Hot Docs in Toronto 2023.
Chloé Aïcha BORO is also a producer with the Burkinabe company “Productions métissées”.
Year: 2023
Country: Burkina Faso, France, Benin
Length: 83 min
Language: Bambanan (Burkina Faso)
Subtitles: Spanish
Director: Chloé Aïcha BORO
Producer: Les Films de l’œil sauvage, Les Productions Métissées, Merveilles Production
Cinematography: Rémi Jennequin, Mathieu Bertholet, Prisca Bourgoin
Editor: Nina Khada
Sound: Sanfo Alassane, Raphaël Roche
Sound Design: Fred Bielle
