Si-Gueriki, la reine-mère = Queen mother / California Newsreel presents ; un film de Idrissou Mora Kpaï ; ecrit par Idrissou Mora Kpaï ; produit par Jean-Marie Teno ; une production Les Films Raphia.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Mora Kpaï, Idrissou, director.

Téno, Jean-Marie, producer, screenwriter.

Entat, Marianne, composer.

Films du Raphia (France), producer.

California Newsreel (Firm), producer, distributor.

Series:

Library of African cinema (Videodisc)

The library of African cinema

Language:

English

French

Multiple languages

Niger-Kordofanian (Other)

Subjects (All):

Social conditions.

Women.

Documentary films.

Royal houses.

Borgu (Benin and Nigeria)--Social life and customs--21st century.

Borgu (Benin and Nigeria).

Royal houses--Borgu (Benin and Nigeria).

Documentary films--Benin.

Women--Borgu (Benin and Nigeria)--Social conditions.

Women--Benin--Social conditions.

Benin--Social conditions--21st century.

Benin.

Borgu (Benin and Nigeria)--Social conditions--21st century.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (62 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

polychrome

Other Title:

Queen mother

Place of Publication:

[California] : California Newsreel, 2003.

Language Note:

In Bariba and French with English subtitles.

System Details:

DVD.

digital

optical

video file

DVD video

Summary:

Documentary about Mora Kpai's return to his Borgu home in Northern Benin after a ten-year residence in Europe. This film is about the lives of his mother and sisters which had previously been invisible to him. His mother is the "queen mother" of the Borgu people, and this film explores the changes resulting from colonization and modernisation that have weakened the role of female authority considerably. The filmmaker's sister, Adama, has divorced her husband and returned with her six children to support herself as a single mother selling cloth in the marketplace. With the current emphasis on the key role of women in development and on using traditional structures as a basis for progress, the role of the si-gueriki could become reinvigorated if she uses her authority to struggle for women's schooling, planned parenthood and AIDS education.

Credits:

Co-producers, Carl Ludwig Rettinger, Arouna Sacca Mora Kpaï ; photography, Alexandra Kordes ; music, Marianne Entat.

Notes:

Includes public performance rights for University of Pennsylvania only. Streaming not allowed without a separate license. Resource Sharing not permitted.

OCLC:

191803285