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Binta, a little girl from Senegal, tells us about the everyday life in her village, the importance of education for the girls, and about her father's great idea to make the world a better place. Full summary » | Add synopsis »
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Nominated for Oscar.
Another 3 wins
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Predicable and tiresome social propaganda
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 | Zeynabou Diallo | ... | Binta |
| Agnile Sambou | ... | Binta's father |
| Aminata Sane | ... | Soda |
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| Javier Fesser | |||
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| Javier Fesser | ||
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| Luis Manso | .... | producer | |
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| Chechu Graf | |||
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| Javier Fesser | |||
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| Luis Fernández Lago | .... | production manager | |
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| José María Bloch | .... | sound mixer | |
| Manuel Carrión | .... | foley artist | |
| Manuel Cora | .... | sound re-recording mixer | |
| James Muñoz | .... | sound effects editor | |
| James Muñoz | .... | supervising sound editor | |
| Miguel Suárez | .... | dialogue editor | |
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- Magnolia Pictures (2007) (USA) (theatrical) (subtitled)
- Filmigranas sound post-production
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"Binta y la gran idea" - Spain (original title)
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Featured in The 2006 Academy Award Nominated Short Films: Live Action (2007)See more »
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The issue this film deals with is a young woman prevented to get an education. The treatment is overly didactic. It feels too much like "feel good" social propaganda.
It does not help that non-professional actors are used. Acting is amateurish. Fortunately the camera work is professional. Curiously that adds to the general feeling that this is government propaganda. There are jabs at backwards social practices of rural provinces. Theater is used as a medium to educate the local communities of their backward ways and convince local folks to change.
All of this is for a good cause. Yet, being propaganda, it is predicable and tiresome. I would have left the cinema if it were not for a subsequent short.