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Benoit De Clerck participe à Cinéastes en Classe. Invitez-le dans votre classe !
In Wolof “dem dikk” means return ticket. It is also the name of the buses criss-crossing Dakar. From among a group of Dakar youngsters, caught in the trap between casual labour and somehow scraping by, emerges Pape Diop. Pape, who makes it a point of honour not to be one of those “intellectuals”, who refuses to “act white”, who manages to make his way of surviving into an assertion … he who is the “ambassador for all those who never had the chance to leave.” In the course of encounters between Pape and the female director from Europe, the acute inequality is apparent and with it the undertow of a migration policy based on exclusion.
Maxime Coton participe à Cinéastes en Classe. Invitez-le dans votre classe !
Sanata et Dicko sont teinturières au Mali. Sanata produit des bazins colorés à Bamako. Dicko vit en brousse au pays dogon et teint des pagnes à l'indigo. Le film nous emmène du village dogon à la grande ville, du sombre indigo accroché aux murs de banco à l'éclat des tissus multicolores pavoisant les rues de Bamako et trace en pointillés la vie quotidienne de ces femmes au savoir-faire remarquable et dont le défi permanent consiste à assurer une vie digne à leurs enfants.
Maxime Coton participe à Cinéastes en Classe. Invitez-le dans votre classe !
Sanata and Dicko are dyers in Mali. Sanata produces coloured bazin fabrics with her co-wives in Bamako. Dicko lives in the bush in Dogon country and dyes loincloths using indigo. This film takes us on a journey from the Dogon village to the big city, from dark indigo hanging on dried mud walls to the flash of multi-coloured fabrics parading the streets of Bamako. We see hints of the similarities and differences between these craftswomen, both in the practice of their art and their economic and social levels. They have amazing skills, and yet both constantly face the same challenge: ensuring a decent life for their children.