terra di tutti film festival
Documentaries and social cinema exhibition
8th edition | 8-12 october 2014
NANGUEY HANDEY
Didier Bergounhoux | France | 2013 | 57'
What color will be tomorrow, when the lights of new technologies will shine? By following Ahmadou on his project to create a computer center, "Nanguey Handey" ("The sun of today") invites us to reflect on the modernization going from Markoye's village to Ouagadougou metropolis. Which kind of technology will it bring to us? Will it bring us to new connections, to emancipation and equality? And what do we sacrifice? Time, money or our memory? Didier Bergounhoux has collected over the years scenes of daily life of Sahel inhabitants where it is evident the coexistence of traditional and modern business practices. Markoye is a burkinabè village surrounded by the dunes, on the border with Mali and Niger. Modernity, with its new modern tools, coexists with ancient traditions.
Didier Bergounhoux was born in Paris. For many years he realizes photographic reportage in Europe and West Africa. As a director, he has conducted several documentary films, including "Blue Gold." He founded the photographic studio "The Box Pictures". In 1997, after having achieved a documentary in Burkina Faso, he approached another type photography. His works have been published from Geneva to Brussels, Ouagadougou, Bamako and Paris. After his photographic success he switched to cinema and became a documentary filmmaker. He raises to environmental issues, water issues and social issues, with particular focus on the Sahel. In 2005 he published two photo books with a preface by Richard Bohringer.