Director : Joseph Gaï Ramaka

Genre : Experimental Short

2020

New York African Film Festival 2020

Film Africa London 2020

Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg 2021

Synopsis (EN)

In times of social distance and the barrier gesture to protect one's neighbor, expression becomes an invaluable act to preserve our humanities. In Mbas mi, the director invites Goo Mamadou Ba to lend his voice to revive an essential text by Albert Camus. In the twilight of memory island, an incantatory voice rises. Carried by the surf, it changes according to a memory. From the alleys dotted with man-lanterns to the tops of sentinel baobabs, the words of "La Peste" resonate.

Synopsis (FR)

Dans le crépuscule de l’île-mémoire, une voix incantatoire s’élève. Portée par le ressac, elle ère au gré d’une souvenance. Des allées parsemées d’hommes-lanternes aux cimes des bao- babs-sentinelles, les mots de “La Peste” résonnent.

Director’s Bio

Joseph Gaï Ramaka is a Senegalese filmmaker. In 1997, he directed the shor t film Ainsi soit-il, which won him the Silver Lion at the 54th Venice International Film Festival. His first feature film Karmen Geï was selected to screen at the 54th Cannes Film Festival (Director’s Forthnight) in May 2001, at the Sundance Film Festival and at the 2002 Pan African Film & Arts Festival Awards in Los Angeles. His second feature film, Et si Latif avait raison! won the Best Documentary Film Award at the 2006 Vues d’Afrique Festival in Montreal. In 2009, with It’s my man! he made his first love story documentary, filmed in the USA. He created the New Orleans Afrikan Film Festival. In 2013, he created Goree Island Cinema, a space for encounters and cinematic creations, which since 2015 has been home to the Gorée Cinema Festival.