Film
En Attendant les Hommes (Waiting for Men) + Traces, Empreintes de Femmes (Traces, Women's Imprints)
Sat, Oct 25, 2008
8 pm
Admission: 5 €, concessions 3 €
En Attendant les Hommes (Waiting for Men)
D: Katy Lena Ndiaye, Senegal/France 2007, 56 min, Engl. subtitles
Society on the edge of the Sahara is dominated by tradition and religion. However, three of the women don’t feel at all predestined to ‘wait for a man’.
Traces, Empreintes de Femmes (Traces, Women’s Imprints)
D: Katy Lena Ndiaye, Senegal/France 2003, 52 min, Engl. subtitles
The film examines the world of the women and their wall paintings in a village in Burkina Faso. – A sensitive portrait, with outstanding photographs, of a society under enormous pressure to change.
