NFB Collection
The Cora Player
19967 min 5 secFilm: Animation, Fiction
Direction: Cilia Sawadogo
Production: Thérèse DescaryGaston KaboréFrançoise Wera
Script: Cilia SawadogoGaston Kaboré
Co-produced by Cinécom Production, Opracom and the NFB with the participation of Heritage Canada, UNICEF International, Premiere Medien GmbH & Co. KG, Télé-Québec and TFO - TVOntario.
Two young Africans from different social backgrounds want to defy tradition and be free to love each other. This Burkina Faso/Canada co-production is based on Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which particularly upholds the right to love freely, blind to convention and social class. An animated film without words for twelve to seventeen yers olds.
Availability
Other versions
Subject categories
- Children and Youth > Adolescent Social BehaviourChildren's RightsDiscrimination and StereotypingFamily LifePeer Relationships
- Developing Countries > Africa - West AfricaFamily LifeSocial ProblemsYouth
- Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism > Black Community
- Law and Crime > Children's RightsDiscriminationHuman Rights
Credits
- director
- Cilia Sawadogo
- animation
- Cilia Sawadogo
- executive producer
- Thérèse Descary
- Gaston Kaboré
- associate producer
- Françoise Wera
- script
- Cilia Sawadogo
- Gaston Kaboré
- computer graphics
- René Fontaine
- sound
- Issa Nabi Traore
- editing
- Christian Marcotte
- sound editing
- Christian Marcotte
- music
- Abdoulaye Cissé
- Sami Rama
- participation
- Sami Rama
Awards
- Special AwardFestival panafricain du cinéma et de la télévision / FESPACO
- Giffoni Film Festival Award - for the Rights from the Heart Series (3 parts) for all-round constant creative achievement and artistic integrity in the cinemaFilm Festival