CLOSING PARTY: Screening, food, music & dance
PRINCESA DE ÁFRICA
Director: Juan Laguna
Countries: Senegal-Spain
Year: 2008
Duration: 80 mins.
Documentary
Venue: Emmanuel United Reformed Church
Spanish, Wolof and French with English Subtitles
Sonia Sampaio, Spanish professional dancer, marries Pape Ndiaye, a Senegalese musician. This stunning documentary adopts a tale shape by using the female narration of Marem, Pape’s daughter, and watercolours that fade in and out to show this cross-cultural encounter, with a remarkable soundtrack by a Senegalese and a Spanish musicians. Marem, who dreams of being a dancer, migrates to Europe when she is 14 years old to follow Sonia´s steps. However, what she finds in Europe, with no children playing in the streets and where poverty also exists, is not precisely like her dream. Africa is neither as Sonia had dreamt, since she must share her life with Pape’s two other wives. It is a story about love, music and dance, where women have the leading role.
Trailer: http://buong.tv/product/princesa-de-africa-princess-of-africa/
ABOUT NOURIA BAH AND ANNA DE MUTIIS
Nouria Bah is a Senegalese-American musician. Both Nouria and her bandmate Anna de Mutiis create homemade groove and vocal-driven music. It has been described as ‘acoustic jazzy folk hop’. Nouria Bah has worked at the legendary label Smithsonian Folkway. As an ethnomusicologist, she studied (amongst other topics), the hip hop scene in Senegal. https://soundcloud.com/nouria-bah
ABOUT LES FRÈRES CHAPALO
Named after a millet beer drunk in Burkina Faso, Les Freres Chapalo make musical mischief inspired by adventures and apprenticing with a griot in Bobo Dioulasso. Songs in English and broken French performed with accordion, balafon and penny whistle.
