Mokili

Burkina Faso

2006

83 Min

Color

Wolof

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CAST Moumouni Sanou, Lionel Pousson Bado, Valentin, Ouedraogo

This film chronicles a few crucial weeks in the lives of two adolescents in modern-day Burkina Faso. Papou and Goumbé are worlds apart, reacting in opposite ways to their approaching A-level exams. The contrasting way they deal with family and peer relations as well as with the choices they opt for on drugs and sex, easy money, forced marriage and corruption, are revealing of the throes of life faced by young people everywhere, but perhaps even more particularly in contemporary African society today. —Mnet

Director

Berni Goldblat

Berni Goldblat is a Swiss citizen who was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1970. Since 2000, he has directed and produced films mainly in West Africa. He was a Jury member at the 2008 and 2009 Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) in Nigeria, as well as at the 2008 Imagé Santé International Film Festival in Liege, Belgium. He is also a founding member of the CINOMADE association (www.cinomade.org). “The Hillside Crowd” is his second feature film after “MOKILI,” a fiction film released in 2006 (www.mokili-thefilm.com). —Brooklynfilmfestival