Faraw! : une mere des sables = Mother of the dunes / Le Centre National de Production Cinématographique du Mali et Les Films de la Dune Rose présentent ; ArtMattan Productions presents ; scénario et réalisation, Abdoulaye Ascofare.
Aminata Ousmane, Balla Moussa Keita, Safiatou Mahamane. Based on "Le violon" ("The violin") by Abdoulaye Ascofare. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1997. Standard format. Special features: About the filmmaker; about ArtMattan; trailer.
Summary:
This feature retraces twenty-four hours in the life of a Songhaï woman, Zamiatou, mother of three with a mentally and physically destroyed husband and no steady income, who is the poorest woman in an impoverished desert village in Mali, but she is determined to have her family survive without prostituting her beautiful daughter, her struggle symbolizing the plight of all African women trapped in a cycle of extreme poverty.
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