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Parlons Grand-mère (1989)

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Original title
Parlons grand-mère
Directed by
Djibril Diop Mambéty
Genre
documentary film
Country
Senegal
Runtime
34 min
Rating
7.8 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A Senegalese filmmaker documents the making of a feature film in Burkina Faso. The short movie captures funny stories about the hazards that come with shooting on location there.

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What happens

Parlons Grand-mère is a Senegalese 1989 short documentary film. Djibril Diop Mambéty followed and filmed the shooting of Yaaba, Idrissa Ouédraogo's second feature film. A documentary full of humorous anecdotes regarding the dangers of shooting films in Burkina Faso. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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