Dakan

Dakan is a Guinean film of Mohamed Camara carried out in 1997, and left in 1999 to France.

Synopsis

Two high-school pupils, Sorry and Manga, are in love one with the other. But their love is badly accommodated by their family. Sorry yields to the pressures, it Marie and has a child. Manga must on its side see a Marabout so that it delivers it his incomprehensible passion. It meets a young Frenchwoman with whom it binds friendship.

Distribution

Aboubacar Touré
Mamady Mory Camara
Cecile Bois
Koumba Diakité
Kadé Seck

Data sheet

Another title: Destiny (English title)
Scenario: Mohamed Camara
Realization: Mohamed Camara
Production: Rene Féret and Pascal Lahmani
Original music: Elhadj Sory and Kandia Kouyaté
Image: Gilberto Azevedo
Assembly: Back Santos
Sound: Christine Charpail and Dominique Hennequin
Lasted: 89 minutes
Comings out date: 1998 (); 1999 (France)

Reward

Grand Prix of the Jury with L.A. Outfest (Outfest - Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival) in 1998.

Around film

Dakan means " destin" in Malinké.

Dakan is the very first African film to approach the topic of the Homosexualité. Through this film, I tried to say that the love remains eternal in spite of the difficulties which the company imposes on in love one. Homo or not! It is for me a way of paying homage to those which like and express their love as they feel it.

The film was presented to the Quinzaine the realizers to the Cannes festival 1997. It made 1930 entries in rooms in France.

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