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Ciné-Club : Xaraasi Xanne I Crossing Voices
Cine-Club : The Crossing I Crossing Voices
Event by: Centre Marc Bloch Berlin
Location: Sputnik Kino, Hasenheide 54, Berlin - Bezirk Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg
Films
About event
Introduction and discussion with Raphaël Grisey (co-director) et Coline Rousteau (researcher at CMB)
A film by Raphaël Grisey and Bouba Touré, 2022, 123 Min.
Soninké, French, Bambara, Pulaar with English subtitles
Using rare cinematic, photographic and sound archives, Xaraasi Xanne (Crossing Voices) recounts the adventure of Somankidi Coura, an agricultural cooperative created in Mali in 1977 by western African immigrant workers living in “foyer” workers’ residences in France. The story of this improbable, utopic return to the Sahel region follows a winding path that travels through the ecological and decolonial challenges and conflicts of agriculture practices and sensing from the 1970s to the present day. One of the major actors of the movement, Bouba Touré, tells this story by plunging into the heart of his personal archives, which document the fights of immigrant workers, over a period of decades as well as those of farmers in France and in Mali. The film is also a story about dialogues and transmission, friendships and cinematic geographies. Over the course of the film, different voices, enter the sound-scape to accompany Bouba Touré’s telling; they bring the tale of a forgotten memory toward a possible future sung by a polyphonic griot.
More infos and tickets : https://www.sputnik-kino.com/program/movie/3547
Soninké, French, Bambara, Pulaar with English subtitles
A film by Raphaël Grisey and Bouba Touré, 2022, 123 Min.
Soninké, French, Bambara, Pulaar with English subtitles
Using rare cinematic, photographic and sound archives, Xaraasi Xanne (Crossing Voices) recounts the adventure of Somankidi Coura, an agricultural cooperative created in Mali in 1977 by western African immigrant workers living in “foyer” workers’ residences in France. The story of this improbable, utopic return to the Sahel region follows a winding path that travels through the ecological and decolonial challenges and conflicts of agriculture practices and sensing from the 1970s to the present day. One of the major actors of the movement, Bouba Touré, tells this story by plunging into the heart of his personal archives, which document the fights of immigrant workers, over a period of decades as well as those of farmers in France and in Mali. The film is also a story about dialogues and transmission, friendships and cinematic geographies. Over the course of the film, different voices, enter the sound-scape to accompany Bouba Touré’s telling; they bring the tale of a forgotten memory toward a possible future sung by a polyphonic griot.
More infos and tickets : https://www.sputnik-kino.com/program/movie/3547
Soninké, French, Bambara, Pulaar with English subtitles