Under the Moon's Light
Sous la clarté de la lune
Burkina Faso, France
2004
90 Min
Color
Moré, French
Patrick, a French engineer, returns to the Village in Burkina Faso where years ago, he had a daughter with a local woman, Kaya. —Africulture
Apolline Traoré was born in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso in 1976. During her childhood, she travelled around the world with her father who worked for the United Nations. At 17, she enrolled at Emerson College in Boston (USA), and earned her Bachelor of Media Arts in 1998. From 1998 to 2001 she worked in Los Angeles in small independent films. She decided to return home to make films on her continent, Africa. Under the moonlight, which was shown in its world premiere at AiM Festival UK 2007 (Africa in Motion, Edinburgh), is her fourth film. —Africine