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PO DI SANGUI

In Competition
Directed by :
Flora GOMES 
Country:
GUINEA, FRANCE, PORTUGAL
Duration:
90.00 minutes

Synopsis

In the village of Amanha Lundju, with each birth, a tree is planted. The trees grow with each child, growing higher and living longer, becoming the villager's soul. But day after day, trees are cut down for survival, and wood has become rare. When Dou, the nomad, comes back from the savannah, his twin, Hami, has just died. The village is extremely tensed. What did Hami die of? What illness is eating away at Amanha Lundju? Dou must take the place of his deceased brother and live with Hami's wife and daughter. The young Saly, who was promised to Dou, mad with grief, falls in love with the sun. When the forestry surveyors arrive from the city, the world looses his balance. Calacalado, the old witch doctor, orders the village to move. They go as far as the desert on a passage of initiation from wich they will return only when a child is born, in order to plant another tree...
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The Official Selection 1996

In Competition