Documentary · Senegal · 2014 · 1h 3m

A Single Word

Une simple parole

Synopsis

In this meditative and elegiac portrait, Senegalese filmmakers Khady and Mariama Sylla record the tales of their grandmother, a griot (storyteller) who is one of the last repositories of their culture’s oral tradition.

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