Swahilini

  • Swahilini
Genre : Musical
Type : Documentary
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 2005
Format : Mid-length
Running time : 52 (in minutes)
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Swahilini renders through song the daily life of Daddy Maisha, African songster on a tin-roof stranded in Tanzania's most infamous asquatter camp, his friendship with the "Other" - the outside film-maker - born out of interdependence : a firt film for a first album. Daddy's fortunes are both social and musical testament to the sad glory of the condition trapped in urban Africa, in a place where the poor seek to outlast misery. A lyrical and sentimental loo at the reality of men an women who are only what they have, who live for having, not for being.

Dir. Pierre Klochendler

Tanzania/France/Israël - 2005 - 52 mins - Kiswahili/French/Lingala (English sub-titles)


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Daddy Maisha es un joven congolés inmigrante en Tanzania. Su sueño: llegar a ser un músico famoso. El recorrido hasta el estudio de grabación por las peligrosas calles de Manzese construye un retrato de la amistad, casi improbable, entre Daddy y el realizador, y retrata la realidad de hombres y mujeres que son sólo lo que poseen y que sueñan con "tener" y no con "ser".

Dir. Pierre Klochendler

Partners

  • Arterial network
  • Media, Sports and Entertainment Group (MSE)
  • Gens de la Caraïbe
  • Groupe 30 Afrique
  • Alliance Française VANUATU
  • PACIFIC ARTS ALLIANCE
  • FURTHER ARTS
  • Zimbabwe : Culture Fund Of Zimbabwe Trust
  • RDC : Groupe TACCEMS
  • Rwanda : Positive Production
  • Togo : Kadam Kadam
  • Niger : ONG Culture Art Humanité
  • Collectif 2004 Images
  • Africultures Burkina-Faso
  • Bénincultures / Editions Plurielles
  • Africiné
  • Afrilivres

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