Film

En Attendant les Hommes (Waiting for Men) + Traces, Empreintes de Femmes (Traces, Women's Imprints)

Sat, Oct 25, 2008
8 pm
Admission: 5 €, concessions 3 €
En Attendant les Hommes (Film still), © Promo

En Attendant les Hommes (Waiting for Men)

D: Katy Lena Ndiaye, Senegal/France 2007, 56 min, Engl. subtitles

Society on the edge of the Sahara is dominated by tradition and religion. However, three of the women don’t feel at all predestined to ‘wait for a man’.


Traces, Empreintes de Femmes (Traces, Women’s Imprints)

D: Katy Lena Ndiaye, Senegal/France 2003, 52 min, Engl. subtitles

The film examines the world of the women and their wall paintings in a village in Burkina Faso. – A sensitive portrait, with outstanding photographs, of a society under enormous pressure to change.