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Close to the coast with the pirogues fishing canoes in Senegal, we are invited to a women’s sabar circle, a joyful exchange of teasing and pleasing audience with liberating moves to the rhythms of the drums. We see a drum lesson with children, drum making and market mingling with the renowned Senegalese Teranga, generosity in action. On washday, Babacar the choreographer and his dancers arrive to lead the girls through a Bara Mbaye, a song everybody knows. The well in another town brings up muddy water, but the dance goes on, it is a stabilizing force.   

Producer Senegal Laye Diedhiou

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Abdoulaye Diedhiou lives in M’Bour, Senegal. Producer of audiovisual projects and director of www.itourismetv.com, television programs focused on tourism. He is also the manager of the group “Xalaas”, traditional sabar dancers and drummers, based in Senegal.

 

Photo: Laye in front of a historic canon used during the slave trade on the Island of Goré near Dakar, now the site of the House of Slaves

Featuring Mané Ndiaye, Pape Ndiaye, Babacar Top. 

Editor Bill Flicker.

Music by Seckou Keita and Omar Sosa.

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Falling For The Mountain

This is the intimate and urgent story of a family that must come together to steward their ancestral home in the majestic Swiss Alps in the face of urbanization and climate change. The film follows owners, farmers and neighbors, all with deep ties to this open wild that asks for protection.

Watch Falling for the Mountain:
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Director Interview:

peace is possible

In 2001 Leon Berg and myself were sent to Israel by Bernie Glassman, Zen priest and founder of the now called Zen Peacemakers International (ZPI) to give introductory Council trainings all over the country. It was after the second Intifada. I was called to lead a council with Palestinian and Israeli women and filmed this clip at the end of it. The practice of listening deeply / spontaneous speaking is now integral to ZPI.

My father, a country doctor in Switzerland, reflects on his relationships with dying patients, his mother and life after death. He tells the story of his identification with Isaac and the death of my sister.

A Legacy
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Screenings

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Upcoming:

Past:

November 6th

Screening with Q&A

UCLA World Arts and Cultures graduate students

October 18th, 1pm PST

Topanga Film Festival

​Froggy's - 1105 N Topanga Canyon Blvd, Topanga, CA 90290

Screening in MBour, Senegal, the principal filming location

June 18th, 8pm GMT, preceded by a sabar starting at 6:30pm

June 6th, 12pm EST

Piton International Film Festival

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

May 31st to June 2nd

R.E.D. International Dance, Art & Film Festival (RIFF)

Einavegen 1771

2843 Eina, Norway

Past, continued:

May 3rd to May 26th

The International Black & Diversity Film Festival Toronto, Canada

May 17th, 6pm PST

UC Riverside Doundounba Festival 2024

900 University Ave,

Riverside, CA 92521

January 28th, 5pm PST

KAOS Network
4343 Leimert Boulevard,

Los Angeles, CA 90008

Ethos Film Festival

November 10th 2023, 5pm PST

The Eli and Edythe Broad Stage

1310 11th St,

Santa Monica, CA 90401

September 2nd 2023, 11am PST

Vidiots

4884 Eagle Rock Blvd.

Los Angeles, CA 90041

February 22nd, 1:30pm

Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theatre

Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway

New York, NY 10025

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