Mémoire entre deux rives
Frédéric Savoye, Wolimité Sié Palenfo
2002 - 90 min - Digital vidéo - Couleur et Noir & Blanc - France

"Memory Between Two Shores" tells the story of the French colonisation of the Lobi area. No village or family in this region of Southwestern Burkina Faso will ever forget.
Juxtaposed with the written records of the administrators, the oral tradition calls up a century of history, from the arrival of the first Europeans to the present day. The vitality of the spoken word also bears witness to the legacy of this painful past, at the individual, social and religious level.
From the past to the present, from the spoken word to the writings of the colonial administrators, " Memory Between Two Shores" is as much Lobi’s quest for identity as a reflection upon " France the Great Civiliser".

Ethnologie | Identité culturelle | Mémoire | Métissage | Burkina Faso


Author-Director : Frédéric Savoye, Wolimité Sié Palenfo
Photography : Sylvain Grolleau
Sound : Constantin Da
Editing : Frédéric Savoye
Delegate Producer : Mosaïque films
Broadcasting Co-producer : Cityzen télévision
Contribution : CNC, Procirep

Distribution


Distributor : Mosaïque films
DVD Editing : Doriane films, La Médiathèque des Trois Mondes
Circulation-Consultation : Musée national de l'Histoire de l'immigration
Disponible au Club du doc

Distinctions

2003 - FIPA (Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels), Biarritz (France) : Sélection
2003 - Images en bibliothèques, Paris (France) : Film soutenu par la Commission nationale de sélection des médiathèques
2003 - Festival Panafricain du Cinéma et de la Télévision de Ouagadougou (FESPACO), Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) : Section Panorama