Djin

  • Djin (El viento del destino)
Type : Fiction
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Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv

Every 30 years, in a village on the coast of Kenya where mythology and tradition prevail and modernity is looking for a way to penetrate, a wind blows that brings a spirit, the Djin. This spirit selects people and urges them to achieve their aspirations, taking away doubts and ambivalences. When Djin comes to town this time, Ahmed, Daud and Najma are forced to confront their desires and act to achieve them, shattering the internal and external structures that kept them comfortable but unsatisfied within society.

by Hawa Essuman

production company: Ginger Ink Films (Kenya)


41st International Film Festival Rotterdam / 25 January - 5 February 2012
* Selected at BOOST!-program, a collaboration with the Hubert Bals Fund and Binger Filmlab

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Cada 30 años, en una aldea de la costa de Kenia donde reinan mitología y tradición y la modernidad busca un resquicio para introducirse, sopla un viento que trae un espíritu, Djin, que escoge a las personas y las impulsa a conseguir sus anhelos, despojándoles de dudas y ambivalencias. Cuando el Djin llega a la aldea esta vez, Ahmed, Daud y Najma se ven obligados a confrontar sus deseos y a actuar para lograrlos, haciendo añicos las construcciones internas y externas que les mantenían, confortables pero insatisfechos, en el seno de la sociedad.

Director: Hawa Essuman

Kenia

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Partners

  • Arterial network
  • Media, Sports and Entertainment Group (MSE)
  • Gens de la Caraïbe
  • Groupe 30 Afrique
  • Alliance Française VANUATU
  • PACIFIC ARTS ALLIANCE
  • FURTHER ARTS
  • Zimbabwe : Culture Fund Of Zimbabwe Trust
  • RDC : Groupe TACCEMS
  • Rwanda : Positive Production
  • Togo : Kadam Kadam
  • Niger : ONG Culture Art Humanité
  • Collectif 2004 Images
  • Africultures Burkina-Faso
  • Bénincultures / Editions Plurielles
  • Africiné
  • Afrilivres

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