SHAIHU UMAR Purchasing Options:DVD + Streaming Zeze Motta

Zeze Motta

DIRECTED BY HARRIKRISNA ANENDEN  MAURITIUS / 2006 / CREOLE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES / 78 MIN

Also starring Riccardo Lefeuvre and Jessica Geneus

One witnesses the circumcision operation performed on two young girls as women surrounding them in a courtyard clap their hands

a group of 30 men sail to Europe in a pirogue

SHAIHU UMAR Purchasing Options:DVD + Streaming Zeze MottaSHAIHU UMAR Didi Cheeka works as a director and film critic and has been working for years to reappraise the Nigerian film heritage. He initiated the archive project Reclaiming History, Unveiling Memory with the aim of restoring, digitizing and curating rediscovered Nigerian films. SHAIHU UMAR is one of the most important works in Nigerian film history, but was long considered lost. Located in northern Nigeria at the end of the 19th century, the film