PO DI SANGUIGuinée-Bissau - France - Tunisie - Portugal / Guinea-Bissau - France - Tunisia - Portugal1996 / 35 mm / Couleur / 93 min. 24 août à 15:30 L3.24.3 | |
| Réal./Dir.: Flora Gomes. Scén./Script: Flora Gomes, Anita Fernandez. Phot.: Vincenzo Marano. Mont./Ed.: Christiane Lack. Mus.: Pablo Cueco. Son/Sound: Pierre Donnadieu. Int./Cast: Ramiro Naka, Edna Evora, Adama Kouyate, Bia Gomes, Dadu Cisse, Dulcenia Bidjanque, Djuco Bodjan. Prod.: Jean-Pierre Gallepe, Les Matins Films, 42, bis rue de Lourmel, 75015 Paris, France, tél.: (1) 45 75 11 45/43, fax: (1) 45 75 11 32. Ventes/Sales: Films sans frontières, 70, boulevard Sébastopol, 75003 Paris, France, tél.: 42 77 21 84, fax: 42 77 42 66.
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| L'ARBRE AUX ÂMES
Dans le village d'Amanha Lundju, à chaque naissance, on plante un arbre. Ces arbres grandissent avec l'enfant, le dépassent, lui survivent et deviennent l'âme des villageois. Mais jour après jour, on coupe les arbres pour survivre. Et le bois se fait rare. Un jour viendra la sécheresse et la mort. Quand Dou le nomade revient de la savane, son jumeau Hami vient de mourir. La tension dans le village est extrême. De quoi est mort Hami? Quel mal ronge Amanha Lundju? Dou doit reprendre la place de son double disparu auprès de sa femme et de sa fille. Saly, la jeune fille qui lui est promise, en devient folle à s'éprendre du soleil. Quand les forestiers de la grande ville arrivent au village, tout bascule, Calacalado, le vieux sorcier, ordonne l'exode. Ils iront jusqu'au désert, en un voyage initiatique. La naissance d'un enfant les ramènera au village... pour planter un arbre. | TREE OF BLOOD
In the village of Amanha Lundju, with each birth of a child, a tree is planted. As the child grows, so does the tree, which becomes its twin, its soul. But wood is scarce and day after day trees must be cut down for survival. One day drought and death will result. When Dou, the nomad, returns from the savannah, his twin brother Hami has just died under mysterious circumstances. The village is tense. What illness is infecting Amanha Lundju? According to tradition, Dou must assume his brother's responsibilities, including those of living with Hami's wife and daughter. Saly, a young woman who had been expecting to be Dou's bride, goes mad with grief and becomes enthralled by the sun. When the forestry surveyors arrive from the city, life in the village becomes completely unhinged. Calacalado, the old witch doctor, sees ominous signs and orders the villagers to leave their homes and trek out into the desert. They will return only when another child is born, to plant another tree. |
| Né en 1949 à Bissau (Guinée-Bissau), Flora Gomes reçoit une formation cinématographique à l'Institut cubain des arts sous la direction de Santiago Alvares. Il travaille comme assistant à la réalisation sur quelques productions. Sa filmographique comprend: MORTU NEGA (1987), LES YEUX BLEUS DE YONTA (1992) et MASCARAS (1992, doc.)
| Born in Guinea-Bissau in 1949, Flora Gomes studied film at the Cuba Institute of the Arts under the supervision of Santiago Alvares. After an apprenticeship as assistant director on several films, Gomes made his own directorial debut in 1976 with the short film, "The Reconstruction". He has since directed: "Anos no oca luca" (1978), MORTU NEGA (1987), THE BLUE EYES OF YONTA (1992) and MASCARAS (1992, doc.)
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