African Women in Cinema Blog Celebrates International Workers' Day : Safi Faye's Fad,Jal
Safi Faye: "Fad signifies “Arrive” and Jal means “Work”. “Work”
because when you arrive at this farming village called Fadial, you must
work. When you work, you’re happy, and if you don’t work, people will
mock you".
Synopsis : Fad,jal (1979, 1h52, Sénégal, France)
Fad,Jal is a Serere Senegalese village. At school, children learn, in
French, the grammar and history of France. Villagers practice their
religion in a church, a vestige of colonialism.
At the foot of a tree, the ancestor and a griot recount to the children
in Wolof, the history of the village—its customs, its tradition, its
creation. An opportunity to discover the artisanal trades, agricultural
techniques and the difficulty of exploiting the land because of the
drought. Meanwhile, as a result of the recently-implemented government
policy, the Serere are confronted on a daily basis with the
appropriation of their land, previously transmitted by oral agreement
among the villagers.
Fad,Jal est un village sénégalais sérère. A l'école, les enfants
apprennent, en français, la grammaire et l'histoire de France. Les
villageois pratiquent leur religion dans une église, vestige du
colonialisme.
Au pied d'un fromager, l'ancêtre et un griot racontent en wolof
l'histoire du village aux enfants, sa création, ses coutumes, ses
traditions. C'est l'occasion de découvrir les métiers artisanaux, les
techniques agricoles et la difficulté d'exploiter les terres à cause de
la sècheresse. En parallèle, le quotidien des sérères est confronté à la
politique gouvernementale qui s'approprie désormais les terres,
auparavant transmises oralement entre les villageois.
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