Comment évoquer la mémoire d’une figure disparue sans tomber dans le piège du mythe ? Sur quelle vérité historique se fonder ? Et cette vérité existe-t-elle ? Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda cite d’entrée Sankara pour répondre à ces questions : « Je crois qu’il y a trois façons d’être : tel que les autres vous perçoivent, tel que l’on se perçoit, et la vérité qui est entre ces deux visions d’un même individu ».

Un film de Balufu BAKUPA-KANYINDA

République Démocratique du Congo (ex Zaïre) / France / United Kingdom, 1991, Documentaire, 26 min, couleur, 16 mm

Titre original : THOMAS SANKARA, L’ESPOIR ASSASSINÉ
Autre titre : « Thomas Sankara, le baobab de Dagnoen« 

lire à propos du film l’entretien avec le réalisateur publié sur : http://www.thomassankara.net/article.php3?id_article=0203

Réalisateur : Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda
Scénariste : Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda
Directrice de la photo : Shirikiana AINA

Production :
Channel Four (Royaume Uni).
Dipanda Yo ! (Congo RDC)
Myriapodus Films (France)

Distribution :
Myriapodus Films (France)
ArtMattan Productions (USA)

Ventes Internationales
Myriapodus Films (France)

Captain Thomas Sankara was the leader of the Burkinabe Revolution. This film is a biographical profile of the revolutionary, the improvements he generated in his country and the new socio-political dimension he instituted in Burkina Faso.
How to evoke the memory of a figure disappeared without falling into the trap of the myth? On what historical truth be based? And this truth exists? Balufu cites Sankara input to answer these questions: « I believe there are three ways to be: as others perceive you, as it sees itself, and the truth is that between these two visions of a single individual « . It was on this vision that he built his film: a parade of vintage photographs, family members are keys by the portrait of the man before Sankara speaks for itself. More than ever, the memory is not just a matter of remembrance it is affirmation of dignity. The Upper Volta will be on August 2, 1984 « the homeland of free men and dignified. » The success of these pictures is to provide background documents the consonance of the news. The filmmaker’s voice just add the sensitivity of a human reflection of a poetic resumed as a leitmotif: « The sun never sets: the man away from the light. »

A film by Balufu BAKUPA-KANYINDA

Democratic Republic of Congo (former Zaïre) / France / United Kingdom, 1991, Documentary, 26 min, color, 16 mm

Original Title: THOMAS SANKARA, L’ESPOIR ASSASSINÉ
Other Title: « Thomas Sankara, le baobab de Dagnoen« 
Language: French w/ English subtitles

Director: Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda
Screenwriter: Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda
Cinematographer: Shirikiana AINA

DVD available
To be ordered from ArtMattan Productions (www.africanfilm.com)

Production:
Channel Four (United Kingdom).
Dipanda Yo ! (Congo DRC)
Myriapodus Films (France)

Distribution:
Myriapodus Films (France)
ArtMattan Productions (USA)

World Sales:
Myriapodus Films (France)