Director Laurent van Lancker, Robin Shuffield
Country/Production Belgium
Release 1998
Length 52 mins
Format Colour / DVD or VHS / PAL / All region
Location Ivory Coast, West Africa
Ethnic Group African
Prizes/Commendations Basil Wright Film Prize 1998
Order No RAI-200.316
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Winner of the (RAI) Basil Wright Film Prize 1998 Ymako Teatri, a theatre company based in Ivory Coast, uses street theatre to question some contemporary West-African problems. Their originality consists in using the ‘invisible theatre’ method in order to surprise the public and thus make it react itself to its own problems. This documentary shows how a local theatre company efficiently uses fiction to problematise today’s African reality. This film presents two performances, one criticises the current proliferation of religious sects, the other deals with the awakening of villagers towards AIDS. Ymako, in Bambara, means ‘our concerns’.
