Product Review

From Africa come two beautifully crafted films inspired by the love of the filmmakers for their homeland. In HARAMUYA, director Drissa Toure offers a fascinating glimpse of the capital of his native Burkina Faso, where a modern prosperous city is surrounded by shanty-town suburbs. Tensions in the city between the traditional and modern are revealed through the heartwarming experiences of several generations of a Muslim family. In Abdoulaye Ascofare s FARAW: MOTHER OF THE DUNES, a mother of three struggles to support her family in the face of her husband s arrest on trumped-up charges. When an old beau gives her a donkey and a water bag, she manages to scrape out a living for her family without degrading herself.