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animation

$75,000

Blending documentary testimony, live action and computer animation, this short confronts discrimination and ritual violence against people with albinism, exposing the dangerous ideas behind it.

Bahari Blue

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Cultural context

Malian filmmaker Moïse Togo's French-Malian graduation hybrid animation/live-action documentary on discrimination and violence against people with albinism. Annecy lists Yoruba/Fon original version; other distribution catalogues list Bambara/Fon/Yoruba. Studio Le Fresnoy is a French production institution. Exact language track per version remains to be checked.

Source credits

Moïse Togo (Mali)

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