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Spotlight on Fanta Régina Nacro
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This event is part of the 28th NYAFF — "Notes from Home: Recurring Dreams & Women's Voices" Learn More
With 1992’s Un Certain Matin, Fanta Régina Nacro became the first woman from Burkina Faso—home to FESPACO, the largest Pan-African film festival in the world—to direct a fiction film. Since then, Nacro has developed a rich body of shorts (as well as one feature film) in which the old and the new cohabitate, illustrating stories from her matrilineal upbringing. Her work depicts the courtyard effect: the entire community comes together to agree and disagree but always finds a positive and collective path to a solution. As Nacro eloquently states: “It is a vision, a certain gaze on our world, that we are proposing.”
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Films
A Certain Morning / Un Certain Matin
Fanta Régina Nacro
/ Burkina Faso / 1992
/ 13mins
Tiga, a farmer in Burkina Faso, is working in the bush when he hears a woman shouting for help.
Bintou
Fanta Régina Nacro
/ Burkina Faso / 2001
/ 31mins
A Burkinabé woman wants to send her daughter to school despite her family's resistance.
Konaté’s Gift
Fanta Régina Nacro
/ Burkina Faso / 1997
/ 32mins
When Djénéba returns from the city where she has been visiting her cousin, she brings her husband, Konaté, a wonderful gift, a condom. Konaté is furious and refuses to change his habits. Djénéba, well aware of the effects of AIDS, refuses to give in.
Puk Nini
Fanta Régina Nacro
/ Burkina Faso / 1995
/ 30mins
A beautiful noble Senegalese woman arrives one day in Ouagadougou carrying with her remarkable seductive powers, which creates chaos throughout the capital.
