Wend Kuuni (God's Gift) California Newsreel

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Infobase, film distributor.

California Newsreel (Firm)

Language:

English

Genre:

Internet videos

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 7 min., 43 sec)) sound

Distribution:

New York, N.Y. Distributed by Infobase, 2016

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : California Newsreel, [1982]

System Details:

Streaming video file

System requirements: FOD playback platform

video file

Summary:

Directed by Gaston Kabore. This historic film marked the beginning of a "return to the sources" in African Cinema, a movement to adapt traditional oral story-telling technique and themes in order to make cinema more accessible to the masses; this film recounts a tale of two orphaned children who are gradually welcomed into a village. Country of production: Burkina Faso. With English subtitles. Contains mature themes and explicit language and imagery. Viewer discretion is advised.

Contents:

Wend Kuuni (God's Gift) (7:43);

Notes:

Originally released by California Newsreel, 1982

Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on March 15, 2016

Title from distributor's description

OCLC:

1143518582

Publisher Number:

57841 Infobase

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license