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SYNOPSIS

Parle avec eux Talk to them. SYNOPSIS

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SYNOPSIS

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  1. Parle aveceux Talktothem SYNOPSIS Mental illness may well be one of the greatest oversights in Africa, as are the people who suffer them. In Burkina Faso, a small inland country in Western Africa, there are only seven psychiatrists for a population of 16 million people. With scarce pharmaceutical treatments and a cultural background that blames mental maladies on the intervention of hidden forces, healing these people involves constant challenges and unique solutions. For almost two years, the author shared the experience of several patients, their doctors and families; on the streets, during their healing processes and their relapses; and compiling more than 70 hours of footage that are now down to a first rough cut of four hours. THE PROJECT This is not only a neccessary documentary, but one that is already in motion. More than 50% of shooting has already taken place. Two years of intensive work with the patients has opened the doors of their lives to this filmmaker who dared to enter a universe no other filmaker was brave enough to venture into. This project has a Spanish producer who lives in Burkina Faso and who has produced some of the director’s previous works, Luis Marques. Maïmuna Ndiaye

  2. Parle aveceux Talktothem BIOGRAPHY Maïmouna Ndiaye was born in France and grew up in Guinea. She returned to France when she was eighteen. While she was still studying, she started working as an actress in cinema and TV, as a television host and making documentaries. In 1995, she joined the Ymako Teatri troupe from the Ivory Coast, and created several theatrical pieces. In 1998, she directed her first documentary, Warbassanga that tells of the birth of contemporary dance in Burkina Faso. Between 1999 an 2004, she filmed ordinary people trapped in the storm of the Ivory Coast. These live-filmed portraits were then edited into Tranches de vie, a series of four shorts presented at Fespaco 2009. FILMOGRAPHY 1998 - Warbassanga (doc) 2003 - Amando, doc, 2003 - Récréatrales, doc, 2004 – Balan, doc, 2002-2008 - Tranches de vies (Pauline ou l’amour en action, Couvre-feu), doc, 2009 - Diable de Tasmanie, doc, 2010 - Roumdé : Fa-Faso, doc, 2010 - Le Mooré sans peine, doc, 2010 - Le Prix du courage, doc Maïmuna Ndiaye

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