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Burkinab Rising
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Wikipedia article
'Burkinab Rising' (also 'Burkinab Rising'): 'the art of resistance in Burkina Faso' is a 2018 long documentary film directed and produced by Iara Lee.
Production
The documentary was produced by Cultures of Resistance films, in Burkina Faso, Bulgaria and USA in English, French and Moor and lasts 72 minutes.
Plot/Synopsis
The documentary displays nonviolent atists and citizens of Burkina Faso pave way in an engaged manner, for a new day in the politics of their nation. Hemce, showing an example worthy of emulation to the continent of Africa and the whole world. The film features a people with a revolutionary spirit akin to that of its former leader (1983-1987), Thomas Sankara, killed in a coup d'etat by a friend of his and successor, Blaise Compaor, by way of music, film, ecology, visual art and architecture. Compaor who ruled for 27 years afterwards in October 2014 got removed by a great popular insurrection, with the spirit remaining with the people even yet.
Travelling across the country to film the documentary, 'BURKINAB RISING: the art of resistance in Burkina Faso', its director, Iara Lee mets an interesting set of cast of artists, musicians and activists, bent at promoting the culture of the through the arts for which the country is known for. The rapper, Joey le Soldat, makes references to the struggles of the impoverished youth in Ouagadougou and of the toiling farmers in the country side; the graffiti artist, Marto, decries injustice by giving colourful mural designs to the city walls; the women's rights activist, Malika la Slameuse, from a feminist perspective on a male-dominated art form performs poetry; the dancer, Serge Aim Coulibaly, from his dance movement encourages his viewers to take political action.
The film also documents a festival of recycled art and interviews farmer groups resisting the encroachment of corporate agriculture. Im total, the film expresses different individuals in different walks of life search for peace and justice by means of cultural expression.
Cast
* Le Balai Citoyen
* Serge Bayala
* Bouda Blandine
* Konat Bomav
* Sr Boukson
* Aim Csa
* Raissa Compaor
* Serge Aim Coulibaly
* Sophie Garcia
* Emmanuel Ilboudo
* Hado Ima
* Jean-Marie Koalga
* Sahab Koanda
* Jean-Robert Koudogbo Kiki
* Souleymane Ladji Kon
* Bil Aka Kora
* Sanou Lagassane
* Benjamin Lebrave
* Ki Lonce
* Mabiisi
* Marto
* Alif Naaba
* Bend Naaba
* Arnaud Ouambatou
* Mohamed Ouedraogo
* Qu'on Sonne et Voix-Ailes
* Blandine Sankara
* Odile Sankara
* Salia Sanou
* Sophie Sedgho
* Malika La Slameuse
* Smockey
* Snake
* Joey Le Soldat
* Fatou Souratie
* Ali Tapsoba
* Gualbert Thiombiano
* Issa Tiendrbodo
* Ousmane Tiendrbodo
* Gidon Vink
* Onasis Wendker
* Blandine Yameogo
* Amina Yanogo
Reception
The film was screened by Suns Cinema, Washington DC in collaboration with Cultures of Resistance on October 16, 2018. It was also screened at the Sembne Film Festival on March 25, 2019.
The film was awarded the 'Best Documentary Film' award and got nominations for 'Best Original Score' and 'Outstanding Woman Director' awards at the New York City's 7th annual Winter Film Awards International Film Festival (WFAIFF) in 2018.
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