Baamum Nafi
Mamadou Dia, Senegal, 2019o
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Two brothers fight over their children’s wedding. Tierno’s role as a father and his responsibility as a spiritual leader are at odds.
The film would be a significant achievement if it did nothing but provide a grippingly detailed picture of the rise of extremism against the backdrop of daily life in a tiny town in northern Senegal. But with his first feature, Dia succeeds not only in capturing this local situation, but in creating a tragedy of universal dimension in which brothers are pitted against brothers and children must suffer for the errors of their fathers.
Nicholas ElliottGalleryo
Movie Datao
Other titles
Nafi's Father EN
Genre
Drama
Running time
109 Min.
Original language
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