Country: Burkina Faso
Year: 1992
Duration: 57'
Nikiema is a farmer from Burkina who sees fate come down upon him. His fouryearold son dies from a simple case of measles. He sells off his cotton crop at a good price, but he still faces a lot of debts. His fifteenyear old son, who had been helping him with the farm work, flunks out of school and moves to Ouagadaougou, where he finds a job guarding people's bicycles. Nikiema tries to commit suicide because he cannot fulfill his promises to his creditors any more. He is saved at the last moment by the arrival of one of his many sons living in the Ivory Coast.
Jigi is a fiction film that shows the conditions of farming life in a nation in the Sahel. It points out the problems of health in the countryside and of deforestation, the everstrong value of traditions, and the inadequacy of the schools in handling local conditions. What fruit have the thirty years of independence produced for the rural populations of Sahel? Jigi allows us to reflect on such questions.
Biography
film director
Sanou Kollo
Sanou Kollo Daniel was born in Borodougou, Burkina Faso. in 1949. He followed his filmic education at film and television institutes in Burkina Faso, the Ivory Coast, France, and Canada. He is the author of educational TV programs for the Ministry of Education and Culture and the Ministry of Communications in Burkina Faso. He has worked with the directors Moustaphe Diop, Gaston Kabore, and Sow Abdoulaye. He has made an extensive series of short films and documentaries. His first feature film, Paweogo (L'emigrant), received an award at the eight FESPACO.
FILMOGRAFIA
Touyan tigui (cm, 1977), Beogho naba (cm, 1978), Les dodos (cm, doc., 1980), Paweogo (L'emigrant) (1983), L'aigle et le cameleon (cm, film d'animazione, 1984), Jubile d'une cathedrale (cm, 1984), L'artisanat et son pays (mm), Sarraounia (cm, doc., 1987), Fespaco 89 (cm, doc., 1989), Portraits de cineastes (doc., 1991), Siao 91 (cm, doc. 1991), Sonapharm (cm, doc.), Operation 30.000 charrues (doc., 1992), Jigi (L'espoir) (1992).
Cast
& Credits
Regia e scenografia: Sanou Kollo.
Screenplay: Motandi Woba.
Director of photography: Sekou Ouedraogo.
Editor: Alphonse Sanou.
Sound: Issa Traore.
Director of Production: Sanou Kollo.
Production company: Sanou Kollo, 01 BP, 5237 Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, tel. 226362474, fax 226303625.
Foreign sales agent: Atria, 16 Bd. Jules Ferry, 75011 Parigi, Francia, tel. 43571732.
Screenplay: Motandi Woba.
Director of photography: Sekou Ouedraogo.
Editor: Alphonse Sanou.
Sound: Issa Traore.
Director of Production: Sanou Kollo.
Production company: Sanou Kollo, 01 BP, 5237 Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, tel. 226362474, fax 226303625.
Foreign sales agent: Atria, 16 Bd. Jules Ferry, 75011 Parigi, Francia, tel. 43571732.