Taafe fanga = Pouvoir de pagne = Skirt power / une coproduction Taare Films, C.N.P.C Mali, Z.D.F Projekt eine Welt, avec la collaboration de Thelma Film AG ; écrit par Adama Drabo ; un film de Adama Drabo.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Drabo, Adama, director, producer, screenwriter.

Berete, Fanta, actor.

Koita, Ibrahima Sory, actor.

Diarra, Hélène, actor.

Barry, Harouna, composer.

Taare Films, producer.

Centre national de production cinématographique du Mali, producer.

Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen. Projekt eine Welt, producer.

Thelma Film AG, producer.

California Newsreel (Firm), distributor.

Series:

Library of African cinema.

The library of African cinema

Language:

English

Niger-Kordofanian (Other)

Subjects (All):

Dogon (African people)--Mali--Drama.

Dogon (African people).

Women--Mali--Drama.

Women.

Sex role--Mali--Drama.

Sex role.

Motion pictures, Malian.

Mali.

Genre:

Feature films.

Comedy films.

Drama.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 videocassette (95 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.

1/2 in.

polychrome

Other Title:

Pouvoir de pagne

Skirt power

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, [1997]

Language Note:

In Dogon with English subtitles.

System Details:

VHS.

analog

magnetic

VHS

Summary:

A griot in present day Mali tells a story about women in an 18th century Dogon village. Fed up with male arrogance, one captures a powerful Albarga mask and terrorizes the men into assuming traditional women's roles.

The humorous results convince everyone that women should be respected as complementary, yet equal, to men if society as a whole is to advance. Inspired by the role of women in Mali's 1991 revolution.

Participant:

Fanta Berete, Ibrahima S. Koita, Hélène Diarra, Teneman Sanogo, Michel Sangara, Nana Diabate, Sidiki Diabate, Bako Dagnon, Ramata Drabo.

Credits:

Photography, Lionel Cousin ; editor, Rose Evans Decraene ; music, Harouna Barry.

Notes:

Originally produced as a motion picture.

Local Notes:

Preview copy.

OCLC:

37886178