The Gown Of Time

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Director: Malam Saguirou
2008, France, Nigeria, 52’, color
Haoussa, French with Turkish subtitles

Ousseini, a young chief of the very traditional Butcher Brotherhood in Zinder, Niger, takes up a double challenge: by trying to develop the meat exporting channel in his area, he both wants to legitimate his recently acquired position as a traditional chief and to assert himself as an innovative chief.

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