Finzan / California Newsreel presents ; une co-production, Kora Films, ZDF, CNPC ; scénario et réalisation, Cheick Oumar Sissoku ; régie, Mamadou Sidibé, Tiéba Kané.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Sissoko, Cheick Oumar, director.

Kora Films (Firm), production company.

California Newsreel (Firm), presenter, production company.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

Bambara

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Mali.

Women.

Bambara (African people)--Mali--Social life and customs.

Bambara (African people).

Bambara (African people)--Marriage customs and rites--Mali.

Mali--Social life and customs.

Mali.

Genre:

Feature films.

Fiction films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (112 minutes)

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1990.

Language Note:

In Bambara with English subtitles.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

In Finzan, Cheick Oumar Sissoko has skillfully crafted a film which raises one of the most important issues of African rural life, the status of women, in a style accessible to every villager. Finzan tells the story of two women's rebellion. Nanyuma, a young widow defies her brother-in-law, the village fool, when he asserts his traditional right to "inherit" her. Fili, a young woman sent from the city by her conservative father, is brutally "circumcised" by village women, scandalized by her refusal to submit to this ancient ritual. Sissoko weaves these two stories together into a painfully realistic picture of village society, tragically unable to free itself from the past.

Participant:

Diarrah Sonogo Koti, Oumar Namory Keïta, Saïdou Touré.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed September 12, 2017).

Won 1989 Nantes Three Continents Festival, Cheick Oumar Sissoko Tied with A Ay (1988)

Nominated 1989 Nantes Three Continents Festival, Cheick Oumar Sissoko

Nominated 1990 Torino International Festival of Young Cinema, Best Feature Film Cheick Oumar Sissoko

OCLC:

1009104676