Catalogue des films de « Michel K. Zongo »

Mailo est mon village, j'y suis né en 1975. Je suis chrétien, mon père est musulman. Aujourd'hui, je ne reconnais plus mon village qui est divisé à cause des tensions religieuses avec comme ligne de démarcation le goudron : les musulmans...

Somewhere in the desert, Fadimata Walett Oumar, poetry and Tuareg singer from Timbuktu (Mali) settles her tent. She sings the beauty of Sahara and the nostalgia of her childhood in the desert. A group of children gets ready to play "Oulinine...

"La Femme des arènes" est un film qui dresse le portrait de Habibou Bagagnan, une femme qui sort du lot de ses semblables. Loin de verser dans le fatalisme et la résignation, elle fait face à son analphabétisme et d'autres difficultés bien...

After it was shut down in 2001, the Faso Fani textile factory in Koudougou, Burkina Faso’s third-largest city, was left to rot. It probably figures in the World Bank and IMF archives as one more piece of collateral damage, yet another write-off...

Akpéma is a ritual, in the Kabyé region (North of Togo), during which elderly women take care of the teenagers to give them an education teaching them how to become a dignified and mature woman. According to me, Akpéma is like a wheel going...

Leaving your family at the age of seven, twelve, sixteen: a leap into the unknown. Taking up residence in front of a shop, in a video store, nearby a bus station. Learning how to take drugs, how to go begging, to steal, flee, fight, and no longer...

L’Akpéma est un rituel, en pays Kabiè (Nord du Togo), au cours duquel les femmes âgées prennent en charge les adolescentes pour les instruire et leur apprendre comment devenir des femmes dignes et mûres. L’Akpéma est pour moi comme une...

A makeshift gold mine on the remote Diosso hillside in Burkina Faso has attracted a swarm of gold-diggers and dynamite blasters, healers and dealers, vendors and prostitutes, children, holy men and barbers. Living in the promiscuous closeness of a...

The film portrays the hectic life of the “Great Z”, an engine driver of the Abidjan-Ouagadougou line for 20 years, laid off in 1995 by the National Railways of Burkina Faso following the privatization imposed by the World Bank. To the sound...