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Hamou-Bèya, sand fishers / D's Productions and La SMAC présent ; a film by Andrey S. Diarra ; un film écrit et réalisé par Andrey S. Diarra.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- Bambara
- Subjects (All):
- Bozo (African people)--Economic conditions.
- Bozo (African people).
- Fishers--Mali.
- Fishers.
- Sand and gravel industry--Mali.
- Sand and gravel industry.
- Climatic changes--Mali.
- Climatic changes.
- Economic conditions.
- Mali.
- Genre:
- Nonfiction films.
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (72 min.) : digital, sound, color
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Brooklyn, New York] : [Distributed by] Icarus Films, [2015]
- Language Note:
- In Bozo with subtitles in English.
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- The Bozo of Mali are people of the water. For generations, they have lived along the banks of the Niger river, fishing for their livelihood. But climate change and drought have brought lower water levels and fewer fish--driving young Bozo men to leave their villages in search of work. Gala is one of these men. Like many young Bozo, he has moved to the capital, Bamako, and works as a sand fisher--dredging up sand and gravel by hand from the river's banks and bottom, and using large wooden pirogues to ferry it ashore. Here, it will be loaded into trucks and used for bricks, concrete mix and tiling--all to feed the construction boom in the country's largest city.
- Credits:
- Camera, Abdélah Coulibaly ; music, Zoumana Théréta.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: D's Productions/La SMAC, c2012; previously released in 2014.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed June 2, 2015).
- Publisher Number:
- if-hamo Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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