Title Great African films. Vol. 1.

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New York, NY : ArtMatten Productions ; Chicago, IL : Distributed by Facets Video, [2007]

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Location	Call No.	Status
Bloomfield at the Atrium	DVD GREAT DISC 1-2	Check Shelf
Middletown, Russell Library - Adult FOREIGN DVD	DVD FOREIGN-BAM-G	Missing

Description	1 videodisc (177 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details	DVD; Dolby Digital.
Note	Title from container.
Performer	Faraw! cast: Avinata Ousmane.
Credits	Faraw!: Director of photography, Yorgos Arvanitis.
Note	Faraw! originally released as a motion picture in 1997 ; Haramuya originally released as a motion picture in 1995.
Summary	Faraw!: Recounts twenty-four hours in the life of Zamiatou, a mother of three young children who is fighting for survival in a town in northeastern Mali. Her husband is too weak to work and her children are exasperated by their situation of poverty.
	Haramuya: In Ouagadougou, the wealthy reside in the modern section of the city, while the poor live in poverty-stricken surburbs. Through the family of Fousseini, a Muslim firmly attached to his faith and traditions, a picture is drawn of a town caught between modernism and traditionalism.
Contents	Faraw! / directed by Abdoulaye Ascofare (1997 ; 90 min.) -- Haramuya / directed by Drissa Toure (1995 ; 87 min.)
Language	Faraw!: Songhoi with English subtitles.
	Haramuya: French with English subtitles.
Note	GMD: videorecording.
Subject	Mothers -- Mali -- Drama.
	Muslim families -- Burkina Faso -- Ouagadougou -- Drama.
	Mali -- Social conditions -- Drama.
	Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) -- Social conditions -- Drama.
	Mali -- Drama.
	Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) -- Drama.
Genre/Form	Feature films.
	Foreign films -- Africa.
	Melodrama.
	Comedy films.
	Melodrama -- Feature.
	Comedy -- Feature.
	Feature films.
	Melodrama.
	Comedy films.
Added Author	Ousmane, Avinata.
	Ascofaré, Abdoulaye, 1949-
	Touré, Drissa.
	ArtMattan Productions.
	Facets Video (Firm)
Added Title	Faraw!
	Haramuya.
ISBN	1565806441
	9781565806443
Standard No.	736899107222
Music No.	DV92670 ArtMatten Productions

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