Scenarios from the Sahel - My Brother

  • Scénarios du Sahel - Mon Frère
Type : Fiction
Original title : Histórias de África I - O meu irmão [Portugal]
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 2001
Format : Short
Running time : 8 (in minutes)

Sílvio**, de 13 anos, pensa que é muito moderno. Ele tem roupas de última moda e um irmão mais velho que tem uma moto. Mas também pensa que é "fixe" tratar mal as pessoas. Na escola, recusa-se a sentar ao lado de Joaquim, um rapaz órfão devido à SIDA. O seu professor, furioso, envia Sílvio a um centro de informação, para preparar uma composição sob o tema SIDA.

(**Noutras versões, os nomes poderão ser alterados.)

Realizado por Cheick Oumar Sissoko, Mali;
baseado numa ideia original de Justin Corréa, de 23 anos, do Senegal;
com a participação da estrela de Rap, Didier Awadi dos Positive Black Soul.

(8'13" = 8 minutos e 13 segundos)





Summary:
Mamadou, aged 13, thinks he's pretty cool. He has all the latest clothes and a big brother with a motorbike. But he also thinks it's cool to treat people badly. At school, he refuses to sit next to Bokary, a boy who has become an orphan due to AIDS, because, he says, "prevention is better than cure". His teacher, enraged, sends Mamadou to an information centre to prepare an essay on AIDS….


Written by Justin Corréa, aged 23, from Mbour, Senegal.
Directed by Cheick Oumar Sissoko of Mali.
Shot in 2001 in Senegal.

Duration: 8 minutes 13 seconds.

Film starts at 0:00:00 on the VHS compilation cassette. (0:00:00 = the moment when the Scenarios from the Sahel logo first appears on the screen before the film My Brother.)

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