Feature film
It's Finished
A Banna
Kalifa Dienta · 1980
Synopsis
Yadji, a lycée teacher in Bamako, goes to his native village with his wife Fanta, also a teacher. The family, used to work in the fields, watches their every move, some of their behaviour gives offence, and Uncle Siné makes one spiteful remark after another. The stay turns into an ordeal, and the unity of the family is threatened, between the town's contempt for peasants and the village's mistrust of those who have left it.
Context
The film, in colour and on 35 mm, runs one hundred minutes; Zoumana Yoro Traoré and Fanta Diallo play the leading roles. The director wrote it, directed it and shot it himself. It was shown in 1991 at the Three Continents Festival, in a panorama of Malian cinema that ranks it among the films of rural life, alongside a shorter film on a peasant woman's day; critics received it rather favourably.
Who it is for
A feature film of one hundred minutes, shot on 35 mm, about the life of a family between the city and the village.
Prizes and reception
Prize of the Agency for Cultural and Technical Cooperation at Fespaco 1981; the first feature film produced by the Malian state.