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Author: Mohamed CamaraRené FeretKouyate Sory KandiaAboubacar TouréMamady Mory CamaraAll authors
Publisher: [San Francisco, Calif.] : California Newsreel [distributor, 2007?]
Series: Library of African cinema (Videodisc)
Edition/Format:   DVD video : NTSC color broadcast system : FrenchView all editions and formats
Summary:
This first feature film on homosexuality from sub-Saharan Africa is a contemporary African reinterpretation of the age-old Romeo and Juliet conflict between love and social convention. When Sori and Manga tell their parents they are in love, they respond that, "It's impossible; since time began, it's never happened. Boys don't do that."
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Genre/Form: Feature films
Fiction films
Foreign language films
Drama
Material Type: Videorecording
Document Type: Visual material
All Authors / Contributors: Mohamed Camara; René Feret; Kouyate Sory Kandia; Aboubacar Touré; Mamady Mory Camara; Cécile Bois; Koumba Diakité; Kadé Seck; Films du 20ème (Firm); Sept Cinéma (Firm); California Newsreel (Firm)
OCLC Number: 182764363
Language Note: In French and Malinké with English subtitles.
Notes: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1997.
This disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives.
Credits: Cinematographer, Gilberto Azevedo ; editor, Dos Santos ; music, Elhadj Sory Kandia Kouyate.
Cast: Aboubacar Touré, Mamady Mory Camara, Cécile Bois, Koumba Diakité, Kadé Seck.
Description: 1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Details: DVD-R; NTSC; all regions; 4:3 aspect ratio; Dolby digital 2.0.
Series Title: Library of African cinema (Videodisc)
Other Titles: Destiny
Responsibility: Les Films du 20ème et La Sept Cinéma présentent ; un film écrit et réalisé par Mohamed Camara ; produit par René Féret.

Abstract:

This first feature film on homosexuality from sub-Saharan Africa is a contemporary African reinterpretation of the age-old Romeo and Juliet conflict between love and social convention. When Sori and Manga tell their parents they are in love, they respond that, "It's impossible; since time began, it's never happened. Boys don't do that."
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