Une Fenêtre ouverte (2005)

Original title

Une fenêtre ouverte

Directed by

Khady Sylla

Genre

documentary film

Country

Senegal, France

Runtime

52 min

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The filmmaker turns the camera on herself and her family after struggling to make a film about mentally ill people on the streets of Dakar. It shows her personal experience with mental health and her relationships with those around her.

contemplativeintimateunflinchingpersonalrawthoughtfulurbanobservational

What happens

Une fenêtre ouverte (English: An open window) is a 2005 documentary film written and directed by Senegalese writer and filmmaker Khady Sylla. The film was a co-production by French company Athénaïse, as well as Guiss Guiss Communications, which is owned by Sylla's younger sister Mariama Sylla Faye. The film comes after an "unsatisfactory attempt" by Sylla to create a film capturing the numerous mentally ill people she encountered on the streets of Dakar. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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