Synopsis
Somewhere in the desert Fadimata Wallett Oumar, Tuareg poet from Timbuktu, pitches her tent. She sings of her longing for her desert childhood and its beauty. A group of children prepare to play a game which involves a goatherd and his goats, a jackal and a judge.
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (2)
- Executive Producer : Écouter Jouer
- Foreign production company : Diam Production
Full credits (15)
- Executive Producer : Françoise Soavi
- Screenwriter : Michel K. Zongo
- Director of Photography : Michel K. Zongo
- Music Composer : Fadimata Walett Oumar
- Assistant Director : Abdoul Aziz Nikiéma
- Editor : Annie Lemesle
- Sound Recordist : Moumoumi Jupiter Sodré
- Executive Producer : Françoise Soavi
- Production manager : Françoise Soavi
- Sound editor : Grace Brown
- Assistant Editor : Sébastien Eychenne
- Chief Lighting Technician : Hervé Sawadogo
- Graders : Rebecca Josset, Stéphane Medez
- Sound mixer : Grace Brown
- Still Photographer : Rebecca Josset
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Themes : Music, Education, Childhood
- Production language : Tamasheq, French
- Coproducer countries : France, Burkina Faso
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Burkina Faso)
- Production year : 2014
- Runtime : 10 min 28 seconds
- Visa number : 141.578
- Visa issue date : 31/03/2015
- Production formats : XDCamEX
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 16/9
- Audio format : Dolby 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
Resources
Presskit(1)
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