Éleveur de rapace dans le film FAYA DAYI de Jessica Beshir

Faya Dayi

Jessica Beshir
2020 - Documentary - 120 min

Éleveur de rapace dans le film FAYA DAYI de Jessica Beshir

International cinema


Faya Dayi

country:
United States, Ethiopia, Qatar
language:
Oromo
subtitles:
English

In her hypnotic documentary feature, Ethiopian-Mexican filmmaker Jessica Beshir explores the coexistence of everyday life and its mythical undercurrents. Though a deeply personal project—Beshir was forced to leave her hometown of Harar with her family as a teenager due to growing political strife—the film she returned to make about the city, its rural Oromo community of farmers, and the harvesting of the country’s most sought-after export (the euphoria-inducing khat plant) is neither a straightforward work of nostalgia nor an issue-oriented doc about a particular drug culture. Rather, she has constructed something dreamlike: a film that uses light, texture, and sound to illuminate the spiritual lives of people whose experiences often become fodder for ripped-from-the-headlines tales of migration.

 

available until March 14 for $8

FST - French subtitles
EST - English subtitles

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