Country: Italy
Year: 1991
Duration: 68'
A day with Adama Djeme, a fifteen-yearold girl who lives in Kafountine, a village on the Casamance coast of Senegal: everyday life, house chores, field work, the women and babies around. Fatigue but also smiles and happiness.
Biography
film director
Elena Bertuzzi
Born in 1959, Elena Bertuzzi is a dancer choreographer and student of cultural anthropology at the university of Turin. She participated in the eighth edition of the Turin Film Festival with the videos La bici di Camilla and La danza del sole. She was a member of the dance company Tindomè. In 1991 she and Paola Colonna founded the Koralbas Cultural Association. At the present she lives in Paris, where she is working with the dance company Appel d'Air and attending a course on the filming of ritual at l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes of the Sorbonne.
Cast
& Credits
Regia, sceneggiatura, fotografia, suono e montaggio: Elena Bertuzzi.
Production company: Elena Bertuzzi, via Valdellatorre 71, Torino, tel. 731890.
Production company: Elena Bertuzzi, via Valdellatorre 71, Torino, tel. 731890.