Thursday,
February 3 at 7:30pm
Reel
Voices Africa Film Series
Dôlè
(Money)
dir.
Imunga Ivanga, Gabon, 2001, 35mm, 80 mins, color, French w/English
subtitles
 Dôlè
offers a Gabonese
perspective on the global crisis facing today's youth. With
familial and societal structures crumbling, young people are
increasingly thrown back for support on each other and an all-encompassing
international pop culture. This film reveals that, whether in
Libreville or in our own inner cities and suburbs, the underlying
causes of youthful disaffection can be remarkably similar. Along
with Ça twiste à Poponguine, Mousa Sene Absa’s
1993 bittersweet coming-of-age story, Dôlè provides
one of the most affectionate and affecting portraits of African
youth poised precariously
on
the cusp of modernity.
preceded
by
In
Their Own Voices: Mustapha
dir.
Filmon Mebrahtu, USA, 2004, video,
4 mins, color
A
portrait of African immigrant Mustapha, a Sierra Leonean singer.
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