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Crossing (The) [Dir.: I. TASSEMBEDO]

  • Traversée (La) [Dir.: I. TASSEMBEDO]
Genre : Drama
Type : Fiction
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 2021
Format : Feature
Running time : 111 (in minutes)
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After ten years of hard work in Italy, Djibi a 40-year old immigrant returns to his home country, Burkina Faso, with full pockets but carrying a heavy secret. In contact with a group of young people from his neighborhood in Ouagadougou, whose sole purpose is to emigrate to Europe, he conceives the secret project to prepare them for this crossing, which he himself carried out: a physical preparation and mental intensive, quasi-military... The young people enrolled in this program, whose profiles and backgrounds reveal the social and cultural realities of today's African youth, will see their lives take a new turn thanks to this very particular coaching. Djibi's real goal is actually to bring each of them into an initiatory journey that will lead to personal fulfillment, eventually invalidating the project of emigration.

After many years of hard work in Italy, Djibi returned to Burkina Faso with a full pocket but a heavy secret. Put in contact with a group of young people whose sole purpose is to leave for Europe, he undertakes to secretly prepare them for this crossing, which he himself has made: intensive physical and intellectual preparation, without concession, almost military…
The six young candidates enrolled in this program, whose profiles and backgrounds reveal the social and cultural realities of today's African youth, will see their lives take a new turn, thanks to this very special coaching. They go through a series of tests that unite them around a common goal and gradually transform them. Djibi's objective, which is gradually revealed, is to bring each of them in this initiatory journey to a personal achievement. A journey that ends up invalidating their emigration project. The old Pronto, a retired Vatican cook, helps Djibi, whom he considers the son he never had. The enigmatic Djibi finds redemption from his own story; that of a young man who stole his family's savings to pay for his crossing, but was unable to support his sick sister, and who served time in prison in Italy in exchange for money from a mafia boss…
Eleven-year-old Akim lives in close proximity to Pronto and these young people, whose secret enterprise he discovers. He too dreams of Europe and so he begins to prepare himself in secret for the crossing, imitating the young people of Djibi with the means at hand. While the young people of the crossing finally admit that they prefer to stay in Burkina where they have now started to build their lives, the preparation of young Akim will be fatal to him. When he trains alone and in the middle of the night to row in a makeshift canoe on the dam, the boat capsizes.

starring
Galiam Bruno HENRY, Beno Sanvee, Oumar Manet, Patrick Kabré, Germaine Acogny

a film by Irène TASSEMBÉDO

Burkina Faso, 2021, Feature Film, 1h52, Drama

Second Feature Film



Original Title (French): LA TRAVERSÉE
English Title: THE CROSSING
Duration: 1h 52m
Country: Burkina Faso
Type: feature Film
Genre: Drama
Year: 2021
Language: French

CAST
Galiam Bruno HENRY................. Djibi
Beno Sanvee................. Pronto
Oumar Manet.................
Kiswensida Ali Ouédraogo.................
Bachir Tassembédo.................
Patrick Kabré.................
Landry Zadi.................
Marie-Ange Camara.................
Germaine Acogny................. La Diva
Dorian Guiard-Schmid.................
Isabelle Tassembedo.................
Minata Diéné.................
Basile Konombo.................
Gérard Ouédraogo.................

PRODUCERS
Irène Tassembedo
Martial Sidwayan ZONGO (Martial S. Zoongo)

LINE PRODUCERS
Sékou Traoré
Sié Amed Kambou

DIRECTOR
Irene TASSEMBÉDO

SCREENWRITER
Irene TASSEMBÉDO

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Philippe Radoux

EDITING
Djidril Sanogo

SOUND DESIGN
Halassane Sanfo

MUSIC
Dramane Dembélé
Ardiouma Diabaté
Seydou Diabaté (dit Kanazoé Balafon)
François Du Bois
Bill Aka Kora
Josias Kiemdé
El Hadj Malik Faye
Yves Mesnil
Jeremy Nattagh

PRODUCTION DESIGN
Irène Tassembedo

PRODUCTION
Mille Couleurs Production - MC PROD (Burkina Faso)
www.millecouleursproduction.com


FESTIVALS / AWARDS
* Nominee: Audience Award /// 43rd DIFF (Durban, South Africa, 2022)
* US Premiere - Competition /// 30th Anniversary PAFF (Virtual, Los Angeles, USA, 2022)
* Selection /// CIFF 2021 - Cinestar International Film Festival (8-13 OCT 2021 | Les Abymes, Guadeloupe, France) | www.ciff.fr/film/la-traversee/ | www.cinestarguadeloupe.com
* Jury Special Mention - Selection Perspectives /// 27th FESPACO (Burkina Faso, 2021)
* Prix de la Critique du Cinéma burkinabè Clément Tapsoba /// 6e édition de la Semaine de la critique du cinéma de Ouagadougou - SECRICO (Ouaga - Burkina Faso, 2022)



WEB
www.facebook.com/irene.tassembedo/
www.indiegogo.com/projects/la-traversee-film#/
www.facebook.com/Art7Media/posts/517204999648986/
https://lefaso.net/spip.php?article117584

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