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Sankara's Orphans

  • Orphelins de Sankara (Les)
Genre : Political
Type : Documentary
Original title : Enfants de Sankara (Les) [Working Title]
Principal country concerned :
Burkina Faso
Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 2018
Format : Feature
Running time : 84 (in minutes)
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In 1986, 600 orphaned children from Burkina Faso were sent to Cuba with the mission of learning a trade so they could come back and develop their country in the midst of a revolution. But after the assassination of Burkinabe president Thomas SANKARA in 1987, the liquidation of the Revolution by Blaise COMPAORE and the end of the cold War, how to come back, to build themselves, to exist?

A film by Géraldine BERGER

France, 2019, Documentary, 1h24

Année de sortie : 2018
Durée : 84 minutes


2019 | 26th Fespaco, Ouaga
* Official Selection- Discovery

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Les Orphelins de Sankara, de Géraldine Berger

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