Underplayed Gems

The Fruitless Tree (2017)

The Fruitless Tree poster
Original title
L'arbre sans fruit
Directed by
Aïcha Macky
Genre
documentary film
Country
Niger
Runtime
52 min
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A filmmaker explores her own life and the loss of her mother, who died when she was a child. The documentary shows her journey to understand this absence and its effect on her.

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What happens

The Fruitless Tree (L'arbre sans fruit) is a Nigerien bilingual documentary film written and directed by Aïcha Macky on her directorial debut. The documentary project was influenced and inspired by the death of director's own mother who died when the director was only five years old at the time. The documentary won the Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Documentary at the 12th Africa Movie Academy Awards in 2016. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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