Feature film
The Sacred Pagne
Bamunan
Falaba Issa Traoré · 1990
Synopsis
In a village in Mali, scenes of ordinary life follow one another: the harvest, a wedding, the children's games, a theft. Siriman, a respected man and cycling champion, sees leprosy ruin his health and his place among his own people. Despised by the village, he is left by his wife for a man involved in drug trafficking, and goes to Bamako to be treated.
Context
Written and directed by the author and produced by his own company, Falaba's Films, the film is photographed by Benoît Say Kan N'da and edited by Ahoussy Diangoye and Koffi Kouabran; Mamadou Doumbia, Maïmouna Koné, Mariétou Kouyaté and Ibrahima Sory Togola play the roles. It was shown in 1991 at the Three Continents Festival, in a panorama of Malian cinema. The Swiss foundation trigon-film distributes it in cinemas and on video.
Who it is for
A feature film of 103 minutes, in subtitled Bambara, built like a village chronicle.
Prizes and reception
The last of its author's four feature films, with no known prize, and still distributed in Switzerland by a foundation devoted to the cinemas of the South.