Haramuya
Synopsis
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso : its tower blocks and shanty towns, the moder city's opulence rubbing shoulders with the poverty of the suburbs. Through the family of Fousseini, a devout Muslim and upholder of Islamic tradition, "Haramuya" paints the portrait of a city caught in the twin traps of modernism and traditionalism. Fousseini tries to run his family in accordance with his ancestral code of honour. One of his sons, a projectionist, supports the whole family against his wife's better judgment. The other son hangs around in Ouagadougou all day, searching for his fiancée...
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Director (1)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : 3B Productions
- Foreign production company : Lolo films
- Film exports/foreign sales : 3B Productions
- French distribution : Tadrart Films
Full credits (9)
- Executive Producer : Jean Bréhat
- Adaptation : Drissa Touré
- Screenwriter : Drissa Touré
- Director of Photography : François Kuhnel
- Music Composer : Cheick Tidiane Seck
- Editor : Kahena Attia-Riveill
- Sound Recordist : Issa Traoré
- Press Attachés (film) : Thierry Lenouvel, Isabelle Buron
- Production Designer : Christian Boglo
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : African dialect
- Coproducer countries : Burkina Faso, France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (Burkina Faso, France)
- Production year : 1995
- French release : 10/01/1996
- Runtime : 1 h 27 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 86.541
- Visa issue date : 10/05/1995
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
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About
"Haramuya" is an urban chronicle. The film is a mosaic, a portrait gallery of characters interwoven with their situations. The city has commandeered its inhabitants' lives. Used to community living within a system of traditional laws, they find themselves in an impersonal housing complex where the Law is based on modern legitimacy. The aim of the film is not to condemn a system but to denounce its effects, i.e. the kinds of behaviour each person may be faced with. In a way it is an alarm bell against cultural dispossession, for those who consume the image of others take on their culture."
(Drissa Touré)
