KOUKAN KOURCIA – LE CRI DE LA TOURTERELLE

Niger 2010

KOUKAN KOURCIA – LE CRI DE LA TOURTERELLE

Director: Sani El Hadj Magori
Docu, 62 min
Haoussa spoken
English subtitles


Hussey is an elderly popular singer who in the 1970s had the power to influence her young fans to leave Niger to seek fortune in the countries of West Africa. The director, to convince his father who had left for Abidjan fifteen years earlier to return, asks Hussey to compose a new song and sets off with him to Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

Sani El Hadj Magori is an documentary maker from Birni N’Konni in Niger. After an agronomical study he went to study cinema and documentary at the Gaston Berger university in St. Louis, Senegal.

This film will be screened with SHOOTING WITH MURSI

Film schedule


City   Location   Date   Time  
Amsterdam   Bioscoop het Ketelhuis   08-10-2011   19:15