Po di Sangui

In the village of Amanha Lundgu every time a child is born a tree is planted. These trees grow as the children grow up and outlive them thus becoming the souls of the village people. But day after day, out of necessity, the villagers cut the trees and wood becomes a rare commodity. One day drought and death will come. When Dou returns to the village, his twin brother Hami has just died. Tensions are running high but Dou doesn’t understand what is going on. What did Humi die of? What evil is eating away at Amanha Lundgu? In the eyes of the community Dou must take the place of his twin brother and become a husband to the dead man’s wife and a father to his daughter. Saly, to whom he is engaged, goes mad and falls in love with the sun. When the lumberjacks from the city arrive in the village to exploit the forest everything is precipitated. Calacalado, the old witch doctor, looks for a way of dealing with this new threat. He orders the villagers to go into exile, he entrusts Dou with the mission of leading them and asks Saly to guide them by the sun.

Production:

Les Matins Films,
Jean-Pierre Gallepe
42 bis, rue de Lourmel
75015 Paris (France)
Telephone: 33 (0) 1 45 75 11 45
Fax: 33 (0) 1 45 75 11 32

Coproduction:

Arco Iris (Guinea Bissau) - MK2 Productions (France) - Cinetelefilms (Tunisia) - SP Filmes (Portugal)

With the participation of:
FONDS SUD CINEMA (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Centre National de la Cinématographie - France); Aide directe du ministère de la Coopération (France)

Distribution:
Films sans frontières
Galeshka Moravioff
70, Boulevard de Sébastopol
75003 Paris (France)
Telephone: + 33 (0) 1 42 77 27 84
Fax: + 33 (0) 1 42 77 42 66
E-mail: infos@films-sans-frontieres.fr
site internet: www.films-sans-frontieres.fr

Non commercial rigths:
Ministère des Affaires étrangères pour les pays suivants: Afrique francophone, lusophone et caraïbes.

Festival:
Sélection en compétition officielle - Cannes 1996