D'une brousse à l'autre
Jacques Kebadian
1998 - 104 min - Betacam SP - Couleur - France

In March 1996, when the African families were evicted from the Saint-Ambroise church and gathered together at the Japy Gymnasium, Jacques Kébadian started to film in order to show the developments of the situation.
During 6 months, he followed these banished people to their quarantine places and paid particular attention to one of them, Dodo Wagué, native of Mali. Dodo, surrounded with his family, became the great figure of the film and his personality grew throughout the struggle. Finally, when he got his papers, he could fly back to Mali to visit his family ; the camera was still there and showed on the occasion the other side of the story.
To escape deliberately from the report of events, Jacques Kébadian proposes a more human, universal story, a story which highlights are the recognition of the human being and the right to live in harmony with his social environment.