The NECKLACE AND THE BEAD is a letter from a father to his daughter. A filmed letter exploring the mystery of woman. From the woman as a body of pain that gives life, to the woman’s body as an object of seduction, to the woman’s ever mutilated body.
Mamadou Sellou Diallo is a Senegalese film director. After obtaining a Masters in Modern Literature at the University of Dakar he set off to Grenoble where he graduated in documentary filmmaking. The Necklace and the Bead is his second documentary.