Underplayed Gems

N'Diongane (1965)

N'Diongane poster
Country
Senegal
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How it feels

A young boy is given to a family as a future husband for their daughter. The story follows their childhood together in a Senegalese village.

shortfolkloricgentlecontemplativegroundedintimatesimplequiet

What happens

N'Diongane est un court métrage de 18 minutes réalisé en 1965 par Paulin Soumanou Vieyra d'après le conte Petit Mari de Birago Diop. L'histoire Petit Mari a été écrite en 1947 pendant la colonisation française, mais le court-métrage quant à lui fut réalisé en 1965 après l'indépendance du Sénégal, en 1960. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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