One of the African popular Film Directors Kollo Daniel Sanou will be screening his film “The burden of the oath” for the first time in Rwanda.
It is also the first time this Film director has premiered his film outside Burkina Faso on which will take place Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at Ishyo Center, Kacyiru Sector.
Kollo Daniel SANOU’S latest film “Tasuma” translated as “Fire” was also screened last Tuesday February 7th, at the same venue where it received huge reviews.
Due to great reviews from the Rwandan public, the cultural center will be showing for the second time Kollo Daniel Sanou film.
The director’s first screened movies in Rwanda like “Fire” was a tragic comedy, where as “THE BURDEN OF THE OATH” is a 90 minute fictional West African tragedy in the style of Greek drama.
The film is a story about two friends Nyama and Sibiri, who become members of the “Dozo” which is a mythical brotherhood of hunters active in West Africa.
The two become members by taking an oath to respect its rules and following the tradition of the brotherhood the two men go hunting after their initiation.
Tragedy strike in the form of unrequited love, Sibiri’s who has been in love with Nyman’s wife throws his friend into a well, and tells the villagers a false story that Nyama died, Yet Nyama succeeds in escaping the wet tomb and finds shelter at a Christian mission who takes care of him returns to his village after having believed dead.
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