Koukan Kourcia ou le Cri de la tourterelle
Sani Elhadj Magori
2010 - 62 min - HDV - Couleur - France, Niger

A long trip from Niger to the Ivory Coast to meet Nigers who were forced into exile twenty years ago by the songs of Hussey, a hugely popular female singer. She is now going to see them with a song asking them to return to their country.
The film raises, in song, the universal issue of separation from one’s native land: Why did these men leave their homes? And what has kept them away over all this time?

Chanson | Exil | Homme | Afrique | Niger


Author-Director : Sani Elhadj Magori
Photography : Jean-François Hautin
Sound : Jean-Jacques Vogelbach, Mathieu Perrot
Editing : Guillaume Favreau
Delegate Producer : La SMAC
Co-producer : Maggia Images
Broadcasting Co-producer : Télénantes

Distribution


Distributor : VraiVrai Films
Not commercial Distribution : ADAV
DVD Editing : Doc Net Films

Distinctions

2011 - FIPA (Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels), Biarritz (France) : Situations de la création internationale
2011 - Festival International Jean Rouch, Paris (France) : Compétition Internationale