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Director:
Gaston Kaboré
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Genre:
Drama
Plot:
In pre-colonial times a peddler crossing the savanna discovers a child lying unconscious in the bush... more | add synopsis
Awards:
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This is a story of belonging and memory. more

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
God's Gift
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Runtime:
75 min
Country:
Burkina Faso
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Color:
Color

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Movie Connections:
Followed by Buud Yam (1997) more

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This is a story of belonging and memory., 26 October 2002
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Author: maple-2 from United States

The film opens with a confrontation: a woman, whose husband has disappeared in the bush, is being forced by her husbands family to marry another brother so the husbands infant son will be raised in the family. She runs away to a remote village where the family cannot find her and raises her son in poverty as an outsider. Several years later, when the outsider is blamed for bringing bad luck in the form of an infant's death, she and her son are run out of the remote village.

Most of the story is told from the point of view of the young son, after he is found mute in the savanna and has been given the name Wend Kuuni by his adopting family. Only when his speech returns after several more years do we learn of his mother's flight from her ancestral village and their flight from the mob at the second village. But it is important to understand this history as a contrast to the Wend Kuuni's adoption into a family and sense of belonging in the third village.

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