Guinea and France / 1991 / 62mins / Documentary / English and French

Filmmaker David Achkar searches for his father, Marof Achkar, a diplomat under the Sekou Toure regime, who was sent to the notorious Camp Boiro prison in Guinea in 1969 for treason. A fragmented pastiche of images ranging from footage of revolutionary leaders to a political prisoner's rediscovered reflections of failures, this film decries the widespread human rights violations in post-independent Africa.

David Achkar

David Achkar was born in 1960 in New York CIty. Gone too soon, he promised to be one of the most brilliant filmmakers of his generation in Africa. He left behind him a small but significant filmography. Allah Tantou is his best-known work which became the first African film to confront the immense personal and political costs of the widespread human rights abuses on the continent. He passed away in 1998 in Conakry, Guinea. Learn More