Arquivo / 49ª mostra

Sitakili, a Sahara desert town, lives under the dictatorship of one man, Guimba Dunbaya, and his son Janguiné. Kani Coulibaly has been engaged to Janguiné since birth. Now a beautiful young woman, many are those who would court her. Yet no suitor dares come out into the open, such is Guimba’s reign of terror. During a courtesy visit to Kani, Janguiné falls for Meya, his fiancée’s mother, and wants to marry her. To satisfy his son’s whim, Guimba banishes Mambi, Meya’s husband. Mambi takes refuge in a village of hunters and organizes an uprising against the tyrant. The film won the Best Costume and Best Production Design Awards at the 1995 Fespaco.