The slow and millenary life of a village in Fouta. The arrival of a new technique, a modernization that, for some, can kill as well as save. A shepherd is afraid, refuses, and yet... The poem worries Africa daily in the great documentary tradition. A semi-fictional and semi-documentary study of the effects of irrigation on a pastoral people in Southern Mauritania and Northern Senegal commissioned by SONADER, a public agency run by Mauritania's Ministry of Rural Development. A film by Cheikh Ngaïdo BA Senegal, 1979, documentary, 60 mins, 16 mm A documentary by Cheikh Ngaïdo BA selected for the 1979 Festival of Continents. 1979 | Festival des Continents | Nantes, France * Selection - Competition www.3continents.com/en/film/de-lautre-cote-du-fleuve/