AMOUR, SEXE, ET MOBYLETTE

Composed of many, interlocking stories, this docu-fiction tries to get to the heart of what love means to the people living in a small town in contemporary Burkina Faso, in the middle of the Sahel. Tracing youthful desire and the wisdom of age, the nostalgia of widows and the excitement of the engaged, the film is resolutely focused on African experiences of love, but the question it puts to us, the viewers, is universal: ‘What do we do with our stories of love?’ It explores a dynamic African context, affected – like any place today – by globalization, where Valentine’s Day is a date on the calendar, and where Brazilian soap operas inspire different dreams of love in thousands of people.