JOM OU L’HISTOIRE D’UN PEUPLE

Long Métrage Fiction

Sénégal 1981’ 80

Scénario Ababacar Samb Makharam

DOP Peter Chappel/Orlando Lopez

Montage Alix Régis

SYNOPSIS

“Khaly” the griot, embodying African memory, transcends time to witness the

resistance against oppression: the struggle between the colonizer and the enslaved

people, the master and the servant, and the factory owner and the workers.

ABABACAR SAMB MAKHARAM

Senegalese director Ababacar Samb Makharam, a prominent African cinema

figure, passed away at 53. His films include Et la Neige N’était Plus (1965), Kodou

(1971), and Jom (1981).