White Negro
Realizador Cheikh N'Diaye
Países France
Duração 75 min
Sinopse
Shocked and angry at the atrocities perpetrated against African albinos, Cameroon storyteller Leonard I De Sernnjock decided to navigate up the Nkam river in search of albinos and their history., On his way, he meets storytellers, old wizards and sorcerers. Leonard slowly grasps how deeply rooted beliefs about alblnos are In the collectlve memory, and that a way to change the Africans' vlew on alblno would be to create, in addition to his theatre shows, new tales that build a new and positive image of albinos. Thus, inspired by stories told to him for him to create a show in the town of Dschang, he invents a new tale., The film delves into the collective memory and African beliefs to understand the origin ofthe barbarism faced by albìnos for several Centuries.
Shocked and angry at the atrocities perpetrated against African albinos, Cameroon storyteller Leonard I De Sernnjock decided to navigate up the Nkam river in search of albinos and their history., On his way, he meets storytellers, old wizards and sorcerers. Leonard slowly grasps how deeply rooted beliefs about alblnos are In the collectlve memory, and that a way to change the Africans' vlew on alblno would be to create, in addition to his theatre shows, new tales that build a new and positive image of albinos. Thus, inspired by stories told to him for him to create a show in the town of Dschang, he invents a new tale., The film delves into the collective memory and African beliefs to understand the origin ofthe barbarism faced by albìnos for several Centuries.