If You Are a Man / Si tu es un homme
Γαλλία-Μπουρκίνα Φάσο / France-Burkina Faso, 76′, 2022
age recommendation: 12+
Perkoa, gold mine in Burkina Faso. Opio is 13 and has been working breaking rocks and dragging men and bags to the surface for several years. Every month he earns his living -a bag of stones extracted from the underground. To ensure a future for Opio, his father would like him to take a vocational training course but unfortunately he cannot afford the school fees. Opio will have to raise the money by himself and the only way to do so is to ask his boss for a promotion: the right to go down into the underground galleries that frighten him so much.
Simon Panay
At 28, he has already directed four short documentaries in West Africa. In 2014 he received the ARP Young Talent of the Year Award and in 2018 the Jean-Luc Lagardère Foundation Documentary Grant. His latest short film, Nobody Dies Hereshot in an illegal mine in Benin, has been screened in 71 countries and has won 133 festival awards.
Cast & Crew
- direction: Simon Panay
- screenplay: Simon Panay
- cinematography: Simon Panay
- editing: Thomas Marchand, Simon Panay
- music: Philippe Fivet
- sound: Souleymane Drabo, Boris Chapelle
- producer:Xavier Castano, Christie Molia, Arnaud de Buchy
- production company: Loull Production, Moteur S’il Vous Plaît, Acacia Productions
- original language: Γαλλικά, Τοπικές διάλεκτοι / French, Local dialects
Filmography
- Nobody Dies Here (2016)
- Waiting For The (T)rain (2015)
- Tontines, Une Affaire De Femmes (2014)
- Drôle De Guerre (2013)
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