African Film Initiative
Conceived by renowned African filmmakers from across the continent, filmed on location in Benin, Burkina Faso, DR Congo, Mozambique, Mala...Video Episodes:
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08:00:27 12/23/08
Enfant d'Afrique
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Filmé au Bénin, Malawi et en République démocratique du Congo (RDC), Africa's Child/ Enfant d'Afrique met le doigt sur des problèmes cruciaux liés à la survie de l'enfant dans les pays d'Afrique subsaharienne et met en relief le travail de l'UNICEF et de ses partenaires pour favoriser les interventions les plus rentables pouvant contribuer à stopper la mortalité des moins de cinq ans à travers le continent. Au Malawi - un des pays les plus pauvres d'Afrique - le film montre les progrès notables réalisés par le gouvernement dans la lutte contre la mortalité des moins de cinq ans en favorisant l'allaitement maternel exclusif, la nutrition et l'hygiène du jeune enfant. Au Bénin, en Afrique de l'Ouest, le Président Yayi Boni démontre le rôle essentiel que peut jouer le gouvernement pour relever les taux de survie plus élevés chez l'enfant en organisant une campagne nationale de distribution de moustiquaires, de vitamine A et de comprimés de déparasitage aux familles à travers le pays.
En RDC, le film souligne les conséquences tragiques de la guerre civile et des violences sexuelles sur les communautés de déplacés et sur les perspectives de survie pour les enfants en bas âge.
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11:38:57 12/21/08
Ca va aller
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Réalisé par Idrissa Ouédraogo. Produit par UNICEF et TVE.
Cette fable d'Idrissa Ouedraogo est l'histoire de Madi (cinq ans) qui vit avec ses parents et son frère bébé dans un village éloigné du Burkina Faso.
Sur le chemin de la maison avec sa mère Awa après avoir cherché du bois, Madi trouve une tourterelle prise dans un piège. Au moment de la tuer pour la soulager de sa douleur, la colombe lui propose un pacte consistant à lui venir en aide chaque fois que de besoin. Tout ce qu'il aura à faire est de claquer les doigts ! Acceptant le marché, Madi libère l'oiseau.
S'ensuivent alors un ensemble de situations liées aux difficultés des adultes et enfants du village de Madi. A chaque fois, l'enfant claquera des doigts et une solution s'offrira à lui pour le bien de tout le village. Le film se termine sur une note d'espoir pour les villageois ; de nouvelles mesures visant à améliorer les conditions de toutes les personnes vivant dans des zones rurales, sont annoncées à la radio.
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10:49:07 12/21/08
It's Going to be OK
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Directed by Idrissa Ouedraogo (Burkina Faso). Produced by TVE and UNICEF.
Idrissa Ouedraogo's magical drama tells the story of five-year old Madi who lives with his parents and baby brother in a remote village in Burkina Faso. Walking home with his mother Awa after she's been collecting wood, Madi finds a turtle dove caught in a trap. He's about to kill it, to put it out of its suffering, when the dove speaks, telling Madi that if he spares its life, he will come to Madi's aid whenever he needs it. All he has to do is click his fingers! Accepting the the deal, Madi frees the bird. Later that day, after Salif, Madi's father has quarrelled with his mother and shouted at Madi for trying to steal eggs from the hen coop because he was hungry, Madi clicks his fingers and summons the turtle dove's help. From the surrounding desert a band of mounted horsemen gallop in and summon the village. The chief horseman ? who is, he tells Madi, the turtle dove - berates the village men for neglecting their families. "Aren't you ashamed of yourselves", he demands of them, for letting their wives do all the work, walking for hours each day to fetch water, looking after the children. Didn't their ancestors used to dig wells with their bare arms, he asks them...
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10:37:40 12/08/08
La Journée du partage
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Réalisé par Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe). Produit par TVE pour UNICEF.
Agée de dix ans, Tabitha est une orpheline séropositive qui vit avec sa Mainini (tante en langue Shona) dans un village du Zimbabwe. Négligée par sa Mainini, Tabitha ne peut plus suivre le régime alimentaire adéquat pour faire face à la maladie. La sante de la jeune fille se détériore. Et Tino, son ami d'école ainsi que la maman de ce dernier s'investissent pour prendre soin d'elle. Leur aide qui arrive malheureusement trop tard, a cependant le mérite de susciter une volonté de rachat en poussant le village à aider ses membres les plus vulnérables. L'objectif est d'inciter à une attitude positive envers les enfants comme Tabitha, malgré les conditions économiques et politiques difficiles dans le Zimbabwe d'aujourd'hui.
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15:26:51 12/05/08
Surviving at any cost
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Directed by Fanta Regina Nacro (Burkina Faso). Produced by UNICEF et TVE.
Set in a village in rural Burkina Faso, Fanta Regina Nacros’ moving documentary film follows the campaign by community health worker Kobo, and his midwife and health practitioner colleague Judith, to increase local parents’ awareness of the vital role that better nutrition, improved hygiene and bed-nets can play in helping keep their young children alive. Mortality rates for under-fives year olds in Burkina Faso are high – with many children dying from common diseases like malaria, diarrhea and acute respiratory infections. Kobo and Judith show parents how to make enriched porridge from millet, groundnuts and beans, to help counter malnutrition and childhood anaemia, urge pregnant women to remember to attend ante-natal clinics at the local hospital, and organize a lively village drama to help reinforce the importance of children sleeping under bed-nets.
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16:35:57 12/04/08
Life in Slow Motion
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Directed by Tunde Kelani (Nigeria). Produced by TVE for UNICEF.
A striking Nollywood drama, Tunde Kelani's story is a morality tale about what's known as the ‘Dutch effect' - the fact that oil and other resource wealth has often been more of a curse than a blessing in African countries – and for the most vulnerable section of the population in particular. Jimi Bello, a Nigerian bureaucrat, attends an energy conference in neighbouring Ghana - ostensibly to advise his Ghanaian colleagues on how to manage their new oil profits, but in reality to secure a foothold for Nigerian interests in Ghana's oil sector. In his hotel bar, Jimi meets Afua, a student working as a prostitute to pay her college fees. Afua tells him her son is ill, back in her home village. When Jimi insists she take him there to visit, he witnesses first-hand the sickly state of all the village children, who the locals claim are ‘cursed'. Realizing that the new oil pipeline has poisoned the village water supply Jimi's forced to revaluate his agenda in Ghana - and to come to terms with the loss of his own four-year old son as a result of drinking contaminated water in a Nigerian village.
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15:49:46 12/03/08
"...and the letter that the children sent to God said..." (English subtitles)
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A poignant insight into the impact that growing inequality in South Africa is having on children's prospects in poor communities in rural Kwa Zulu Natal, Khalo Matabane 's film uses handheld cameras to record the daily lives of 11 year old Bonothile Zondi, and 7 year old orphaned Sihle Ngubane and their extended families. We see the children going to school, collecting water from the pump, visiting a local clinic, struggling with home-work. We learn about their dreams, their sorrows and their fears for the future. Bonothile and Sihle have both had to face harsh realities of losing relatives to HIV/AIDS, as well as hunger and death at a very young age, and are wise beyond their years.
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