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9.4/10   10 votes
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Director:
Appoline Traoré
Writer:
Appoline Traoré (writer)
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Genre:
Drama
Plot:
A dwarf born into an intolerant village meets a farmer who teaches her about love, friendship and sacrifice. | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win more
User Comments:
A charming and original piece more

Cast

  (Credited cast)
Deborah Coty ... Kounandi
Aminata Dao ... Awa
Adama Koné ... Moussa
Noufou Ouédraogo ... Karim
Olga Toe ... Miriam
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Additional Details

Runtime:
49 min
Country:
Burkina Faso
Language:
Dioula
Color:
Color
Filming Locations:
Burkina Faso
Company:
NDK Production more

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A charming and original piece, 11 March 2006
8/10
Author: enzedder from Wellington, NZ

I cried after watching this. A dwarf girl in an African village, unwanted by her father and abandoned after he murders her step mother for adultery, she is offered sanctuary by Karim, a kindly farmer, with whom she builds a small house for her on his land. A victim of intolerance in the village, she makes her living selling sweet cakes, made with her baking dish, her sole inheritance left by her birth mother. When Karim's ailing wife Awa returns from her time with a healer and rejects Kounandi, the story hits its bottom. Seeing how distraught Karim is about his wife's impending death, Kounandi, in a scene of magical realism, offers Awa her health, and ability to make sweet cakes, and by doing this sacrifices her life, thereby gaining the respect of the village that automatically ceases in its prejudice to her memory. Very quaint, original and far better than most crap on television.

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