Showing posts with label Guinean cinema. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Guinean cinema. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Be Kunko

 


Short Guinean film "Be Kunko" by director Cheick Fantamady Camara. 

Its based on the refugee crisis due to which many teenagers are living in the refugee camp in Conakry. Life is tough to come by in the UNHCR camp due to which teenage children indulge in crimes of various sorts like car jacking, burglary, armed robbery, prostitution etc. 

There is a grandmother who is upholding all the family tradition of labour, hard work, love etc. but the children are more interested in quick half measures to get their jobs done. 

There's not much of a story developed in such a short movie (31 mins) but the picture above, which is the closing shot, depicts the angst and frustration of youth in a never ending war. 


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