Great African Films, Vol. 2: Tasuma, The Fighter and Sia, The Dream Of the Python [DVD]

Description

Out of Africa comes these critically acclaimed films that reveal the beauty of oral storytelling traditions to express the history and culture of the people. TASUMA, THE FIGHTER offers a comic view of the impact of western colonialism. Retired from the French army, West African native Sogo waits patiently for his pension so that he can finance his grain mill. The mill is destined for the women of his village so they don t have to crush grain by hand. When the pension does not come, he and the village women take matters into their own hands. SIA, THE DREAM OF THE PYTHON is a modern adaptation of a seventh-century African legend. A poor village, desperate for prosperity, decides it must make a human sacrifice to a mystical snake god to guarantee a better future. Sia, the most beautiful woman in the village, is chosen for the ritual, but she runs away in revolt.