Official competition documentaries


EDOUARD GLISSANT, UN MONDE EN ( Mali 2009 )

Couleur: 51’
Direction: Manthia DIAWARA
Screenplay: Manthia Diawara
Director of Photography: Karim Akadiri Soumaila
Sound: Didier Brudell, Karim Akadiri Soumaila
Music: Jacques Coursil Avec : Edouard Glissant
Editing: Laurence Attali
Production: Lydie Diakhate


Synopsis

In 2009, Manthia Diawara followed poet and literary critic Edouard Glissant on the Queen Mary II in a trans-Atlantic journey from South Hampton, UK, to Brooklyn, New York and on to Martinique, his birthplace.



The director:


Diawara is a filmmaker and professor of Comparative Literature and Cinema and head of African studies at the Afro-American Institute of New York University.



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