Has God forsaken Africa? [videorecording (DVD)] / directed by Musa Dieng Kala.

Has God forsaken Africa? [videorecording (DVD)] / directed by Musa Dieng Kala.

Alternate Title
Dieu a-t-il quitté l'Afrique?

Publication Date
2008

Publication Information
Montréal, Que. : National Film Board of Canada,

Edition
Widescreen version.

Physical Description
1 videodisc (ca. 52 min.)

Subject Term
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
 
Documentary films.
 
French drama.

Geographic Term
Senegalese -- Social conditions

Additional Contributors
Dieng Kala, Musa,

Summary
Brussels, August 1999. Two teenagers from Guinea are found dead in the undercarriage of a plane from Conakry. Each year, thousands of young Africans like them risk their lives to flee a continent scourged by war and endemic poverty. Shocked by this growing phenomenon, the Senegal-born director Musa Dieng Kala returns to Dakar, where he grew up, and asks the painful question: Has God Forsaken Africa? The answer is bitter. As he films five young adults seeking to immigrate to the West at any cost, the filmmaker unearths the impotence of individuals faced with international indifference and the unconcern of the leaders of a society emptied of its resources and incapable of meeting its needs. A moving film that makes the case for a global ecology in which no nation or people is abandoned.

Language
French

General Note
DVD-R. May not play on all DVD players.
 
"When exile is the only option."
 
In title the A in the word Africa is depicted by a map outline of Africa.
 
Includes the animted short film "Hungu" (9 min.) a film by Nicolas Brault.

Language Note
Languages: French, Wolof ; Subtitles: English, French.


LibraryCollectionCollectionCall NumberStatus
Corner Brook (WCB)Adult NFic DVD NFBAdult Non-Fiction DVD NFB960 H27Checked In