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Film
Al Djanat
Chloé Aïcha Boro
84 min., 2023, Burkina Faso, Bambara and French with English subtitles
After the death of her uncle, a local dignitary, the director returns to Burkina Faso to make a film about her family courtyard. A dispute over her uncle’s estate has burst out between advocates of traditional law and proponents of official law, inherited from European colonisation. The courtyard becomes the theatre where conflict takes place and the future of the family is played out. The filmmaker confronts contradictions permeating her family and the country, and at the same time grapples with the difficulty of coming back, to a world that has changed during her absence.