Questions to the Native Land
Synopsis
Forced to leave Dakar at the end of the 1960s, the film director Samba Félix Ndiaye returns to Senegal after almost forty years of Parisian exile. Once the illusion of the spectacle offered, upon his arrival, by the plane flying over the peninsula, and the crossing of the Bay of Ngor, has passed, the rediscovery of his native village plunges Ndiaye into an unexpected reality, ultimately similar to the disastrous images of Africa presented in the media that he has always decried.
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- Executive Producer : La Huit
- Foreign production company : Médiatik Communication
Full credits (9)
- Executive Producer : Gilles Le Mao
- Screenwriter : Samba Félix Ndiaye
- Director of Photography : Raphaël Popelier
- Editor : Mariette Levy-Novion
- Sound Recordist : Alioune Mbow
- Foreign Producer : Moctar Ndiouga Bâ
- Voice-over : Samba Félix Ndiaye
- Production Manager : Moctar Ndiouga Bâ
- Sound Editor : Nicolas Dambroise
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Sub-genre : Auteur documentary, Research - Experimental
- Themes : Economics, Emigration, Politics, Society
- Production language : French, Wolof
- Coproducer countries : France, Senegal
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Senegal)
- Production year : 2007
- Runtime : 52 min
- Production formats : DV-CAM
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 4/3
- Audio format : Stereo
- Rating restrictions : None
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