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kiwi
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 Posted - 14 May 2011 : 16:56:49
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CinemArica`s annual film festival has taken places, this time I watched two documentaries.
Theresa Dahlberg Traoré – brought up in Burkina Faso and Sweden - is a documentary film student in Stockholm and Taxi Sister is her examination work Through a friend living in Dakar she learnt to know about a project initiated by Senegal´s government launching a women taxi fleet, and then get connected to Boury, one of 15 taxi sisters who now are driving their cars - compared to 15 000 male drivers.
The opening scene is significant, a verbal fight between Boury and a male driver who doesn´t approve of female drivers, but Boury is not the one who backs off. In her professional life she has to endure insults, at home she enjoys all the respect. Being a breadwinner in a large family, no one makes any decisions without consulting her.
Theresa has done well – the documentary shows how it is to work in male world an how well women do it. Afterwards I had a feeling of having been in Dakar.
Teddy Goitom – with East African roots, born in Jerusalem but brought up in Sweden – went to South Africa and made a completely different documentary: Stocktown X Sydafrika, a depiction of the vibrant, social and creative contemporary underground culture in South Africa today.
Young people appearing do not complain and do not expect anything for free, they are fully determined to make their own future whether it is within art, fashion, music and so on.
If Theresa´s film made me feel have ben there, Teddy´s film made me wish to be twenty – and be there.
Goitom´s film has already made some fame, CNN wrote an article about it,
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/04/04/stocktown.south.africa.documentary/
and it will also be screened at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London friday the 24th of June at the opening of the Afropolitians Exhibition.
http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/f/afropolitans-24-june-2011
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