Burkina: "The perimeter of Kamsé", by Olivier Zuchuat, an ecological and feminine battle

Photo of the documentary film “Le perimeter de Kamsé” by Swiss director Olivier Zuchuat, which was released this Wednesday, October 27 on screens in France.

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Shovels and pickaxes to fight against global warming, in Kamsé, Burkina Faso ... These are the tools available to the inhabitants to plant trees and try to limit the consequences of warming.

, by Swiss director Olivier Zuchuat, films an ecological and feminine battle, a documentary released this week in cinemas in France.

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It is a corner of land, barely a few dozen hectares torn from the desert.

In Kamsé, in the north of Burkina Faso, villagers have embarked on a major project: creating, with shovels and pickaxes, a network of dikes in order to plant trees to fight against global warming.

After filming the debt crisis in Mali and a refugee camp in Darfur, Olivier Zuchuat is once again interested in a theme linked to the migratory exodus.

In Kamsé, time seems to have stood still, with the exception of a small radio which reports a jihadist attack in the north of the country.

The director highlights the tensions between beliefs, including a sacred wood that must not be touched, and techniques.

He also and above all films the progress, day after day, of the project, a front essentially made up of columns of women, babies on their backs and pickaxes in hand, shots without comments that do justice, better than any other, to the strength and resistance of African women.

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