Moolaade

The action is set in a small African village, where four young girls facing ritual “purification” flee to the household of Colle Ardo Gallo Sy, a strong-willed woman who has managed to shield her own teenage daughter from mutilation. Colle invokes the time-honored custom of moolaade (sanctuary) to protect the fugitives, and tension mounts as the ensuing stand-off pits Colle against village traditionalists (both male and female) and endangers the prospective marriage of her daughter to the heir-apparent to the tribal throne.
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Script: Ousmane Sembene
Cinematography: Dominique Gentil
Editing: Abdellatif Raiss
Sound: Denis Guilherm
Music: Boncana Maiga
Actors: Fatoumata Coulibaly (Colle Ardo Gallo Sy), Maimouna Helene Diarra (Hadjatou), Salimata Traore (Amasatou), Dominique T. Zeida (Mercenaire), Mah Campaore (lead purifier), Animata Dao (Alima Ba)
Production: Les Films Domirev (Joseph Kpobly)
Producers: Ousmane Sembene, Thierry Lenouvel
Co-production: Direction de la Cinematographie Nationale & Centre Cinematographique Marocain & Cinetelefilms & Les Films de la Terre Africain
Costumes: Sidi Aamadou
Production Design: Joseph Kpobly
Format: 35mm Color
Production Country: Senegal-France-Burkina Faso-Cameroon-Morocco-Tunisia
Production Year: 2004
Duration: 124
Contact: Wide Management, FranceT. +33 1 5395 0464F. +33 1 5395 0465wide@widemanagement.comwww.widemanagement.com

Ousmane Sembene

He was born in 1923 and died in 2007. He is a Senegalese writer, chronicler and film director, best-known for his historical- political works with strong social comment. In the 1960s he developed an interest in the cinema and went to the Gorki Institute in Moscow to study film production. His Black Girl was the first film ever produced by an African filmmaker and won the Jean Vigo Award at the Cannes IFF 1966. He often turned his short stories and novels into films. During his career as a director, he received several international awards and his films were immensely popular in Africa.

Filmography

1963 Borom Sarret/The Cart Driver (short)
1963 L’Empire Songhai/The Songhai Empire (short doc.)
1964 Niaye (short)
1966 La Noire de.../Black Girl
1968 Mandabi/The Money Order
1969 (Traumatisme de la femme face a la) polygamie/
Women and the Trauma of Polygamy (doc.)
1969 Probleme de l’emploi a.k.a. Les Derives du chomage/
Unemployment Problems (doc)
1970 Tauw (short)
1971 Emitai/God of Thunder
1972 Jeux Olympiques de Munich/The Munich Olympic Games (doc.)
1974 Xala/The Curse
1976 Ceddo
1988 Camp de Thiaroye/Camp Thiaroye
1992 Guelwaar
1999 L’heroisme au quotidian/Daily Heroism (short)
2000 Faat Kine
2004 Moolaade