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04 February 2021

New York African Film Festival 2021: Invisible Husband / Un invisible mari by Hawa Aliou N'Diaye

Hawa Aliou N'Diaye
Invisible Husband / Un invisible mari
Mali
2020 - Documentary - 68mins

Malian filmmaker Hawa Aliou N’Diaye believes that she is possessed by a jinn. In this documentary, she interviews other women in her community who also believe that they are controlled by jinn, which in some cases claim to be their husbands. Delving into Malian traditions and myths, N’Diaye explores the ethereal dimensions of the world around her.

Source (Text and Image):

New York African Film Festival: https://africanfilmny.org/event/invisible-husband-un-invisible-mari/
 
Film at Lincoln Center : https://virtual.filmlinc.org/film/invisible-husband/
 
Q&A with Hawa Aliou N'Diaye

22 February 2020

Festival Films Femmes Afrique 2020 - Hawa Aliou N'Diaye : Kuma!

Hawa Aliou N'Diaye
Kuma !
Mali - 2019 - 13 min - Fiction


Synopsis

Anita est une jeune femme devenue muette. Emprisonnée, ses contacts avec le monde trahissent sa folie. Kuma, c’est son histoire. Une histoire racontée à travers une caméra subjective lors d’une visite dans une prison pas comme les autres. On y apprend le passé d’Anita, et l’on découvre ses traumatismes.

Anita is a young woman who has become mute. Imprisoned, her contact with the world betrays her madness. Kuma is her story. A story told through a subjective camera during a visit to a prison like no other. Through the film Anita's past and her trauma are revealed. 
 
Note d’intention - Kuma ! « Parle ! » | Note of Intention - Kuma! " Speak ! "
 
Quelle serait votre réaction si on vous racontait qu'un père couche avec sa propre fille ? Moi j'ai été très choquée le jour où j'ai entendu cette histoire bouleversante sur une fréquence radio, où un père couche avec sa fille de 12 ans. Puis une autre histoire avec une amie où le père couche avec toutes ses filles sous les yeux de la mère dans mon pays, le Mali. Évoluer, en tant qu’être humain, c’est grandir en conscience. En effet, l’être humain, au contraire de l’animal, n’a pas d’excuses de ne pas se rendre compte de ce qu’il fait, nous sommes conscients de notre apparence parce qu’en nous existe une conscience.Drame silencieux, l'inceste est non seulement un crime sexuel, mais également une agression psychique et émotionnelle grave. C'est la transgression d'une loi absolue, d'une interdiction fondamentale qui régit tout à la fois la cellule familiale, la vie dans la société, une règle intangible à la base de toute civilisation. Commise soit par le père, le frère, ou l'oncle, elle ne se limite pas qu'au viol génital, on a des attouchements, des caresses imposées ou exigées, une trop grande promiscuité à caractère sexuel, le non-respect de l'intimité de l'enfant. Tout cela génère des situations particulièrement destructrices pour l'enfant. Ce film raconte l'histoire d'Anita qui est victime de viol incestueux par son père depuis son bas âge sous les yeux de sa mère. A partir de ce moment où sa vie est bouleversée et devient un enfer, Anita est plongée dans un monde très sombre jusqu'à devenir muette. Elle ne parle plus, elle ne fait qu'obéir et est devenue un objet sexuel de son père. Mais le jour où le père commence avec sa petite sœur qui n'a que 7 ans, Anita décide de prendre ces responsabilités sans pitié. Cet acte pour elle est une libération pour elle et pour sa sœur.Ce film est sans dialogue car l'image est elle même un dialogue.  Il est sans dialogue car le monde à ces victimes est silencieux.  Dans le film j'accentue plus ce côté sombre des femmes victimes de toutes sortent de violences, que ce soit conjugal ou autre dans nos sociétés.

What would be your reaction if you were told that a father slept with his own daughter? I was very shocked the day I heard this shocking story on the radio, where a father sleeps with his 12-year old-daughter. Then another story while with a friend where the father sleeps with all his daughters before the eyes of the mother; this in my country, Mali. To evolve, as a human being, is to grow in consciousness. Indeed, the human being, contrary to the animal, has no excuse to not realize what he is doing, we are aware of our appearance because within us there is a consciousness. A silent drama, incest is not only a sexual crime, but also a serious psychological and emotional assault. It is the transgression of an absolute law, of a fundamental prohibition which governs at the same time the family unit, societal life--an intangible rule at the foundation of any civilization. Committed either by the father, the brother, or the uncle, it is not limited to genital rape, there is touching, fondling that is imposed or demanded, an immense promiscuity of a sexual nature, that breaches the privacy of the child. All of this generates particularly destructive situations for the child. This film tells the story of Anita who is the victim of incestuous rape by her father from an early age as her mother watches. From this moment, her life shattered and becomes hell, Anita is plunged into a very dark world rendering her mute. She no longer speaks, she only obeys and becomes a sex object of her father. But the day the father turns to her little sister who is only 7 years old, Anita decides to take charge, and without mercy. For her, this is an act of a liberation for her and for her sister. This film is without dialogue because the image is itself a dialogue. There is no dialogue because the world of these victims is silent. In the film I accentuate more this dark side of the women who are victims of kinds of violence, whether it is domestic or other, in our societies.

Biographie | Biography

Hawa Aliou N’Diaye est née et a grandi au Mali. Elle est diplômée en droit des affaires de L’Université des Sciences Juridique et Politique de Bamako. Elle réalise son premier court métrage en 2015, Les mains d’or de Samba, sélectionné au Fespaco 2017. Dans la foulée elle suit une formation à l’Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis du Sénégal. En 2016, elle réalise le court métrage L’absence et participe au long métrage documentaire L’école des otages. Elle est également directrice du festival Fêrê Demsenw, manifestation culturelle à destination des enfants.

Hawa Aliou N’Diaye was born and raised in Mali. She graduated in business law from L’Université des Sciences Juridique et Politique de Bamako (the University of Legal and Political Sciences of Bamako). She made her first short film in 2015, Les mains d'or de Samba, selected at Fespaco 2017. At the same time, she trained at the Gaston Berger University in Saint-Louis, Senegal, and in 2016, directed the short film L’absence and participated in the documentary feature L’école des otages. She is also director of the Fêrê Demsenw festival, a cultural event for children.

27 June 2017

Mis Me Binga 2017 : Women's cinema celebrated in Cameroon for the 8th time | Le cinéma féminin célébré pour la 8ème fois au Cameroun by/par Pélagie Ng'onana (Africiné)

Mis Me Binga 2017 : Women's cinema celebrated in Cameroon for the 8th time | Le cinéma féminin célébré pour la 8ème fois au Cameroun by/par Pélagie Ng'onana (Africiné)

[English] Français ci-après

Mis Me Binga 2017: “Women's cinema celebrated in Cameroon for the 8th time” by Pélagie Ng'onana, Africiné, 26/06/2017. Translation from French by Beti Ellerson. (An African Women in Cinema Blog/Africiné collaboration).

The International Women's Film Festival opens on 28 June in Yaoundé. For three days, the 24 films selected for this 8th edition of Mis Me Binga are presented to the public. "Three days of cinema" as it is called by the team who initiated the project in 2010, and led by filmmaker Narcisse Wandji (Walls, 2016) and producer Evodie Ngueyeli, is driven by the challenge of energising the local culture scene with the magic of cinema.

According to the organisation, this year's programming is a consistent representation of African women's production. This is certainly the case of Fruitless Tree by Aïcha Macky of Niger, the opening film. The 52-minute documentary addresses the hidden torment of women suffering from infertility. The film was in the official selection at the last Fespaco [2017], and has also won several prizes, including the Africa Movie Academy Awards for Best Documentary in 2016. The public will also be able to appreciate Cameroonian Chantal Youdom's Rêve corrompu (Corrupted Dream), El Dorado by her compatriot Agnès Yougang, Le crayon (The Pencil) by Adjaratou Ouédraogo of Burkina Faso and L’Absence by Hawa Ndiaye from Mali.

Cameroon leads the list of selected films, followed by Niger with three films and Burkina Faso with two. Mali, DRC, Côte d'Ivoire, Togo and Algeria each have one film. While the official selection covers mainly Central and West Africa, the team of Mis Me Binga is nevertheless pleased. However, this collection is far from a representation of "all the wonders of the cinemas of Africa" ​​as this 8th edition claims. A detail that nevertheless does not undermine the importance of the event: to move the spectators, to allow them to experience a range of emotions through their encounter with recent cinematographic works. "The importance of these films and the very reason for their existence is to give them visibility, to be able to provide elements for reflection, criticism and, why not, simply for entertainment," emphasises Evodie Ngueyeli.

From its inception Mis Me Binga ("The eyes of women" in the Ewondo language of Cameroon) took on the role of advocate to promote the woman’s perspective in the universe of the 7th art. But since the last three years, the festival has opened a window to films made by men, with themes supporting the cause of women. Although ultimately, in terms of numbers, the works by men are equal to those by women. They include The Digger by Nabe Daone, Royal Team Family by Abdel Aziz Zra, both from Cameroon; Le Jardin d'Akoua (The Garden of Akoua) by Marcelin Bossou from Togo, and the Algerian Mohamed Yargui with his film Je te promets (I promise you). This year's competition includes feature films. The two juries, for feature and for short, will discern the awards for these films, which will be announced on July 1st during the closing ceremony.

Eight years later, Mis Me Binga, which ranks as the second most important festival in Cameroon (after Écrans Noirs, which takes place in July), has seen results: about 2,000 films have been screened, 10,000 visitors and 35 women trained in screenwriting, marketing and film production. This edition proposes, throughout the three days, an initiation to film animation workshop.


[Français]
Mis Me Binga 2017 Le cinéma féminin célébré pour la 8ème fois au Cameroun. Pélagie Ng'onana. Publié le 26/06/2017
 
Le festival international de films de femmes s'ouvre le 28 juin à Yaoundé. Trois jours pas plus pour présenter au public les 24 films retenus pour cette 8ème édition du Mis Me Binga. "Trois jours de cinéma" tel que le présente la jeune équipe initiatrice du projet depuis 2010. Des jeunes, en tête desquels Narcisse Wandji, réalisateur (Walls, 2016) et Evodie Ngueyeli, productrice, nourris par le défi d'animer l'environnement culturel local avec la magie du cinéma. POUR LIRE L’INTEGRALITE : http://www.africine.org/?menu=art&no=14160


13 February 2017

FESPACO 2017: Les mains d’or de Samba (The golden hands of Samba) by/de Hawa Aliou N’Diaye (Mali)

Les mains d’or de Samba (The golden hands of Samba) by/de Hawa Aliou N’Diaye (Mali)


OFFICIAL COMPETITION |
COMPETITION OFFICIELLE
FICTION: SHORT FILM | COURT MÉTRAGE



Synopsis

[English]
Samba, who has a supernatural gift of healing, is a young beggar mistreated by his Koranic master. Noury, a young girl suffering from sickle cell anemia, rescues him from his master’s grip. She is in return rewarded by Samba.

[Français]
Samba détenteur d’un don surnaturel de guérisseur, est un mendiant maltraité par son maître Coranique. Noury, une jeune fille atteinte de drépanocytose le sauve des griffes de ce maître. En retour elle est récompensée par Samba. 

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