Traditional chiefs, religious leaders, surreal bureaucrats, the police…no aspect of Burkinabe society escapes mockery in “Duga”, a comedy screened Wednesday at Africa’s top film festival.
“False religious prophets spread fear and hate speech, and this leads to violence,” said Abdoulaye Dao, a Burkinabe director who co-made the film with Herve Eric Lengani. At the same time, a young labourer finds an abandoned baby in a dump. He offers to take care of the child, but the authorities throw every obstacle in his way — and even go so far as to accuse him of killing her mother.
“The vehicle used in the film for transporting the body broke down all the time and also got stuck in the mud — we had to haul it out with a tractor, which inspired one of the scenes,” he says. Launched in 1969 and loosely modelled on the Cannes Film Festival, Fespaco provides an opportunity for African movie and TV professionals to network and pitch their work to clients in Europe, North America and beyond.– The golden stallion –The top prize — the so-called “African Oscar” — is the Golden Stallion of Yennenga, named after a mythical 12th-century warrior princess who founded the Mossi empire.
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