‘August 2014, I return to Bassa country to bury a loved one. In my mother's village, Ngobilo, the songs of my family rise up, mingling with the murmurs of the forest, the echoes of the slave port of Bimbia, and the falls of the Lobé. I film these moments when the hymn ‘Ligwe Li Yesu / Malo ma Bakeke' resounds, carrying the memory of ancestors and the shadow of absence. During the confinement of 2020, as I revisit these images, I begin to tell the story of a funeral march in which the trees sing as I stroll along and the regenerating waters of the falls flow back upstream, questioning the tones that inhabit us and those we create to accompany our own.'

Film by Soñ Gweha,
*Selected for the Ẅ XOOL FESTIVAL 2024