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Xaraasi Xanne recounts the exemplary adventure of Somankidi Coura, an agricultural cooperative created in Mali in 1977 by western African immigrant workers living in workers’ residences in France.
Years after the death of grandmother Anita, Andrés Kaiser inspected the old building where she and grandfather Arnoldo worked all their lives as printers. The images revealed their secret profession as amateur filmmakers.
An experimental melodrama inspired by the films of amateur filmmaker Joan Thurber Baldwin made in the 1950s and by autobiographical references.
After gaining independence in the early 1960s, the young African nations are greeted by an unexpected and enigmatic friend from a far-off continent: Soviet parliamentarians arrive in an endless stream, paying visits to Africa’s new leaders.
