Deweneti + Un matin bonne heure (Early in the Morning)

Deweneti

D: Dyana Gaye, Senegal/France 2006, 15 min, Engl. subtitles

Ousmane lives in Dakar, is seven years old, he attends a Koran school and has to earn his living begging. One day, however, he comes up with an idea: he writes to Father Christmas.

Un Matin Bonne Heure (Early in the Morning)

D: Gahité Fofana, Guinea/France 2006, 77 min, Engl. subtitles

One morning, two boys set off for Conakry airport bearing a letter: ‘Your Excellency, the Gentlemen Responsible in Europe: We appeal to your solidarity…’ Two days later they are found in Brussels: frozen to death in the undercarriage of a jet airplane. Without preaching, the film sensitively portrays the last 48 hours in the lives of the two boys.